Publications by authors named "Takuto Sakamoto"
Article Synopsis
- The article explores how UN diplomats are adapting their communication strategies in the digital age by leveraging social media tools to enhance traditional diplomacy.
- Utilizing advanced text analysis techniques, the study compares tweets from diplomats with their formal statements made at the UN Security Council, revealing differences in topics and tones between online and offline communication.
- Results indicate that online diplomacy tends to focus on non-security issues and adopts a more public-friendly approach, highlighting how digital platforms have become essential for broader audience engagement in diplomacy.
Despite considerable scholarly attention on the institutional and normative aspects of development cooperation, its longitudinal dynamics unfolding at the global level have rarely been investigated. Focusing on aid, we examine the evolving global structure of development cooperation induced by aid flows in its entirety. Representing annual aid flows between donors and recipients from 1970 to 2013 as a series of networks, we apply hierarchical stochastic block models to extensive aid-flow data that cover not only the aid behavior of the major OECD donors but also that of other emerging donors, including China.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFDryland pastoralism has long attracted considerable attention from researchers in diverse fields. However, rigorous formal study is made difficult by the high level of mobility of pastoralists as well as by the sizable spatio-temporal variability of their environment. This article presents a new computational approach for studying mobile pastoralism that overcomes these issues.
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