Welcome!

I am Samuel Liu, a PhD Candidate in the Department of Government at Cornell University. I am also currently a World Politics & Statecraft Fellow of the Smith Richardson Foundation and a doctoral fellow of the Chiang Ching-kuo Foundation.

My research interest is international security, with a focus on coercion theory, interstate signaling, and East Asian security. I am particularly interested in understanding how individual-level motivations to resist coercion shape foreign policy in the coercion target state. My dissertation examines why coercive efforts to change target behavior often backfire in Taiwan.

Before I came to Cornell, I completed a master’s degree at University College London and a bachelor’s degree at the University of Hong Kong.

You can contact me at kl933[at]cornell.edu.