Clara H. Suong

Assistant Professor of Political Science

Virginia Tech

Clara H. Suong (she/her/hers) is an assistant professor of political science at Virginia Tech. She studies the role of information in International Relations, using computational, formal, and experimental methods. Her research interests include International Relations, International Security, diplomacy, computational social science, survey experiments, and formal modeling.

Experience

 
 
 
 
 
Assistant Professor
Department of Political Science, Virginia Tech
August 2021 – Present Blacksburg, Virginia
 
 
 
 
 
Visiting Assistant Professor
Department of Political Science, Virginia Tech
August 2020 – August 2021 Blacksburg, Virginia
 
 
 
 
 
Postdoctoral Research Associate
Department of Political Science, Duke University
September 2019 – August 2020 Durham, North Carolina
 
 
 
 
 
Postdoctoral Research Associate
Center for Data Science and Department of Politics, New York University
September 2018 – August 2019 New York, New York

Education

Ph.D. in Political Science
Department of Political Science, University of California, San Diego Sep 2012 – Dec 2018

Peer-Reviewed Publications

Clara H. Suong, Scott Desposato, Erik Gartzke (2023). Thinking Generically and Specifically in International Relations Survey Experiments. Research and Politics.

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Matthew Connelly, Raymond Hicks, Robert Jervis, Arthur Spirling, Clara H. Suong (2021). Diplomatic Documents Data for International Relations: The Freedom of Information Archive (FOIArchive) Database. Conflict Management and Peace Science, 38(6).

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Clara H. Suong, Scott Desposato, Erik Gartzke (2020). How 'Democratic' is the Democratic Peace? A Survey Experiment of Foreign Policy Preferences in Brazil and China. Brazilian Political Science Review, 14(1).

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Clara H. Suong (2019). 6. PAKISTAN, 2001–11: Washington’s Small Stick. Proxy Wars: Suppressing Violence Through Local Agents by Eli Berman and David A. Lake (Eds.).

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Helmut Norpoth, Andrew H. Sidman, Clara H. Suong (2013). Polls and Elections: The New Deal Realignment in Real Time. Presidential Studies Quarterly, 43(1).

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Selected Accepted and Working Papers

Suong, Clara H. “Authoritarian Media Coverage of International News: The Case of North Korea." Accepted. See an early version at SSRN: https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=4559456

Suong, Clara H., Scott Desposato, and Erik Gartzke. “Ubiquitous but Inconsistent: Internationalism, Militarism, and IO Influence on Public Opinion in China, Brazil, Japan, and Sweden.” 2023. Older version available at SSRN: https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=4262069. Under Review.

Suong, Clara H. “Unnamed but Credible? Unattributable Communication and Foreign Policy." Under Review.

Selected Presentations

Journeys in World Politics Workshop, University of Wisconsin, Madison, 2023 (Scheduled)

Workshop on Diplomats and Bureaucrats in International Relations, Niehaus Center for Globalization and Governance, Princeton University, 2023

Invited Talk, Georgetown University, Spring 2023

Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association: 2023 (Scheduled), 2022, 2021, 2018, 2017 (Pre-Conference)

Annual Meeting of the Midwest Political Science Association: 2023

North American Meeting of the Peace Science Society (International), University of Denver, November 2022

Society for Political Methodology Annual Meeting: 2022, 2021, 2019, 2018, 2017

National Security Institute, Virginia Tech (Virtual), February 2022

Center for Humanities, Virginia Tech (Virtual), February 2021

Proxy Wars Conference, George Washington University, September 2016

Experiments in International Relations Conference, Princeton University, May 2014

Southern California Comparative Political Science Conference, UC Santa Barbara, September 2013

Teaching

Foundations of Security Environments (cross-listed in Computer Science and Business Information Technology), Virginia Tech

National Security, Virginia Tech

Research Methods II (Graduate), Virginia Tech

Data Analytics for the Social Sciences (cross-listed in Economics), UC San Diego

World Politics, Stony Brook University

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