Published Articles
Journal Articles
Andreas Wimmer, Bart Bonikowski, Charles Crabtree, Zheng Fu, Matt Golder, and Kiyoteru Tsutsui. 2025. “Geo-political Rivalry and Anti-Immigrant Sentiment: A Conjoint Experiment in 22 Countries.” American Political Science Review 119(2): 1018–1035.
Charles Crabtree, Jeong-Woo Koo, Amanda Murdie, and Kiyoteru Tsutsui. 2022. “Why the Public Supports the Human Rights of Prisoners and Asylum Seekers: An Experimental Approach.” Political Research Quarterly 73(4): 878–892.
Markus Hadler, Lynn Chin, and Kiyoteru Tsutsui. 2020. “Conflicting and Reinforcing Identities in Expanding Europe from 1995 to 2019: Findings Revisited in an Even Larger Europe.” Innovation: The European Journal of Social Science Research 34(1): 3–13.
Kiyoteru Tsutsui. 2017. “Human Rights and Minority Activism in Japan: Transformation of Movement Actorhood and Local-Global Feedback Loop.” American Journal of Sociology 122: 1050–1103.
2017 Best Scholarly Article Award — ASA Section on Human Rights. 2018 Research Paper Award — ASA Section on Asia and Asian America. 2018 Distinguished Contribution to Scholarship Article Award (Honorable Mention) — ASA Section on Collective Behavior and Social Movements. 2019 Best Scholarly Article Award (Honorable Mention) — ASA Section on Global and Transnational Sociology.
Alwyn Lim and Kiyoteru Tsutsui. 2012. “Globalization and Commitment in Corporate Social Responsibility: Cross-National Analyses of Institutional and Political-Economy Effects.” American Sociological Review 77: 69–98.
2013 Best Scholarly Article Award (Honorable Mention) — ASA Section on Global and Transnational Sociology.
Kiyoteru Tsutsui, Claire Whitlinger, and Alwyn Lim. 2012. “International Human Rights Law and Social Movements: States’ Resistance and Civil Society’s Insistence.” Annual Review of Law and Social Science 8: 367–396.
Markus Hadler, Kiyoteru Tsutsui, and Lynn Chin. 2012. “Conflicting and Reinforcing Identities in Expanding Europe: Individual- and Country-Level Factors Shaping National and European Identities, 1995–2003.” Sociological Forum 27: 392–418.
Kiyoteru Tsutsui. 2009. “The Trajectory of Perpetrators’ Trauma: Mnemonic Politics around the Asia-Pacific War in Japan.” Social Forces 87(3): 1389–1422.
Kiyoteru Tsutsui and Hwa-Ji Shin. 2008. “Global Norms, Local Activism, and Social Movement Outcomes: Global Human Rights and Resident Koreans in Japan.” Social Problems 55(3): 391–418.
2010 Best Scholarly Article Award — ASA Section on Global and Transnational Sociology.
Christine Min Wotipka and Kiyoteru Tsutsui. 2008. “Global Human Rights and State Sovereignty: State Ratification of International Human Rights Treaties, 1965–2001.” Sociological Forum 23(4): 724–754.
Emilie Hafner-Burton, Kiyoteru Tsutsui, and John Meyer. 2008. “Even Bad States Do Good Things: International Human Rights Law and the Politics of Legitimation.” International Sociology 23(1): 115–141.
Hwa-Ji Shin and Kiyoteru Tsutsui. 2007. “Constructing Social Movement Actorhood: Resident Koreans’ Activism in Japan since 1945.” International Journal of Comparative Sociology 48(4): 317–335.
Emilie Hafner-Burton and Kiyoteru Tsutsui. 2007. “Justice Lost!: The Failure of International Human Rights Law.” Journal of Peace Research 44(4): 407–425.
Reprinted in Essential Readings in World Politics (5th ed.), edited by Karen A. Mingst and Jack L. Snyder. Norton, 2013.
Kiyoteru Tsutsui. 2006. “Redressing Past Human Rights Violations: Global Dimensions of Contemporary Social Movements.” Social Forces 85(1): 331–354.
Emilie Hafner-Burton and Kiyoteru Tsutsui. 2005. “Human Rights in a Globalizing World: The Paradox of Empty Promises.” American Journal of Sociology 110(5): 1373–1411.
Kiyoteru Tsutsui and Christine Min Wotipka. 2004. “Global Civil Society and the International Human Rights Movement: Citizen Participation in Human Rights International Nongovernmental Organizations.” Social Forces 83(2): 587–620.
Kiyoteru Tsutsui. 2004. “Global Civil Society and Ethnic Social Movements in the Contemporary World.” Sociological Forum 19(1): 63–88.
Dimitris Assimakopoulos, Sean Everton, and Kiyoteru Tsutsui. 2003. “The Semiconductor Community in Silicon Valley: A Network Analysis of the Semi Genealogy Chart (1947–1986).” International Journal of Technology Management 25(1/2): 181–199.
Susan Olzak and Kiyoteru Tsutsui. 1998. “Status in the World System and Ethnic Mobilization.” Journal of Conflict Resolution 42(6): 691–720.
Kiyoteru Tsutsui. 1995. “In Search of the Origin of Nationalism: Formation of Nationalism in England.” (in Japanese) Kyoto Journal of Sociology 2: 115–134.
Kiyoteru Tsutsui. 1994. “Genealogy of Ethnie and Nation: Review of Anthony D. Smith’s Ethnic Origins of Nations.” (in Japanese) Kyoto Journal of Sociology 1: 105–112.
Kiyoteru Tsutsui. 1994. “Reconstruction of the Concept Nationalism.” (in Japanese) Soshioloji 38(3): 63–81.
Book Chapters
John Ciorciari and Kiyoteru Tsutsui. 2021. “From the Fukuda Doctrine to the FOIP: The Evolution of Japanese Engagement in Southeast Asia.” In John Ciorciari and Kiyoteru Tsutsui (eds.), The Courteous Power: Japan and Southeast Asia in the Indo-Pacific Era. University of Michigan Press.
John Ciorciari and Kiyoteru Tsutsui. 2021. “Japan As a Courteous Power: Continuity and Change in the Indo-Pacific Era.” In John Ciorciari and Kiyoteru Tsutsui (eds.), The Courteous Power: Japan and Southeast Asia in the Indo-Pacific Era. University of Michigan Press.
Kiyoteru Tsutsui and Jackie Smith. 2018. “Human Rights and Social Movements: From the Boomerang Pattern to a Sandwich Effect.” In David Snow, Sarah Soule, Hanspeter Kriesi, and Holly J. McCammon (eds.), Wiley Blackwell Companion to Social Movements (2nd ed.). Wiley, pp. 586–601.
Kiyoteru Tsutsui. 2017. “How Do Global Human Rights Expand? A Case of Japan’s Burakumin Going Global.” In Alison Brysk and Michael Stohl (eds.), Expanding Human Rights: 21st Century Norms and Governance. Edward Elgar, pp. 35–54.
Alwyn Lim and Kiyoteru Tsutsui. 2015. “The Social Regulation of the Economy in the Global Context.” In Kiyoteru Tsutsui and Alwyn Lim (eds.), Corporate Social Responsibility in a Globalizing World. Cambridge University Press, pp. 1–24.
Kiyoteru Tsutsui. 2015. “The Changing Transnational Imagery of ‘Good Nation’ and the Ainu in Japan.” In Yasemin Nuhoğlu Soysal (ed.), Transnational Trajectories in East Asia: Nation, Citizenship, and Region. Routledge, pp. 179–206.
Markus Hadler, Kiyoteru Tsutsui, and Lynn Chin. 2012. “Simple, Dual, and No Identifications: National and European Identity Cross-Examined.” In Franz Hoellinger and Markus Hadler (eds.), Crossing Borders and Shifting Identities. Campus, pp. 237–261.
Kiyoteru Tsutsui. 2004. “Shame and National Identity: Collective Memories of World War II in Japan.” (in German) In Bernhard Giesen and Christoph Schneider (eds.), Tätertrauma: Nationale Erinnerungen im öffentlichen Diskurs. UVK Verlagsgesellschaft.
Tatsuhiko Yoshida, Akihiko Sato, and Kiyoteru Tsutsui. 1995. “Changes in the Consumption of Electronic and Print Media.” (in Japanese) In Yo Takeuchi (ed.), Education of Kyoto University Seen in Its Alumni: Education, Occupation and Culture. Research Center for University Education, Hiroshima University.