Clara H. Suong (she/her/hers) is an assistant professor of political science at Virginia Tech. She studies the role of information and individuals in International Relations, using computational, formal, and experimental methods. Her broad research interests include International Relations, International Security, diplomacy, computational social science, survey experiments, and formal modeling.
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. “Unnamed but Persuasive: Quasi-Secrecy and Public Support for Foreign Policy." R&R, ISQ.
“Rethinking the Tradeoffs of Within-Subjects Designs in International Relations Experiments.” With Scott Desposato and Erik Gartzke. Under Review. Early draft available at: https://osf.io/preprints/socarxiv/rn38x
“Territory-Specific Hawks and Doves: Rethinking Issue Salience in International Conflicts.” With Scott Desposato and Erik Gartzke. Under Review.
“Inconsistent Cue Effects:: Evidence from Public Responses to International Organizations’ Cues.” With Scott Desposato and Erik Gartzke. R&R, Review of International Organizations
Virtual IPES (Online), Scheduled 2025
Annual Meeting of the International Studies Association: 2025 (Scheduled), 2024, 2022
Chinese Politics Research in Progress Workshop (Online), 2024
Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association: 2024, 2023, 2022, 2021, 2018, 2017 (Pre-Conference)
David Lake Academic Family Reunion Conference, 2024
Hack n Yack, Virginia Tech, 2024
Annual Meeting of the Midwest Political Science Association: 2024, 2023
SOWEPS Workshop, Vanderbilt University, 2024
American Political Science Association Virtual Research Group Meeting, 2024
North American Meeting of the Peace Science Society (International), Washington University in St. Louis, 2023
Journeys in World Politics Workshop, University of Wisconsin, Madison, 2023
Workshop on Diplomats and Bureaucrats in International Relations, Niehaus Center for Globalization and Governance, Princeton University, 2023
Invited Talk, Georgetown University, Spring 2023
North American Meeting of the Peace Science Society (International), University of Denver, November 2022
Society for Political Methodology Annual Meeting (Poster): 2024, 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
Foundations of Security Environments (cross-listed in Computer Science and Business Information Technology), Virginia Tech
National Security, Virginia Tech
Research Methods (Undergraduate), 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