Survey Experiment over Japan-Korea Territorial Dispute

• Project/Area Number: 25590038
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Challenging Exploratory Research
• Allocation Type: Multi-year Fund
• Research Field: International relations
• Research Institution: Kobe University
• Principal Investigator: TAGO Atsushi 神戸大学, 法学(政治学)研究科(研究院), 准教授 (80457035)
• Project Period (FY): 2013-04-01 – 2015-03-31
• Project Status: Completed (Fiscal Year 2014)
• Budget Amount: ¥3,640,000 (Direct Cost: ¥2,800,000、Indirect Cost: ¥840,000); Fiscal Year 2014: ¥650,000 (Direct Cost: ¥500,000、Indirect Cost: ¥150,000); Fiscal Year 2013: ¥2,990,000 (Direct Cost: ¥2,300,000、Indirect Cost: ¥690,000)
• Keywords: サーベイ実験 / 領土紛争 / 日本 / 韓国 / 日韓関係 / 実験サーベイ

Outline of Final Research Achievements

The research project was aimed at finding conditions when the general public can support a government that gives in to the other country in territorial dispute. We hypothesize that the ICJ judgment would ease the domestic opposition to make a compromise to the other state. While such a hypothesis is intuitive and a sort of common knowledge in International Relations, our survey experiment did not support that notion. ICJ solution seems not bring a peaceful end of territorial dispute as easy as it has been believed by International Relations scholars.