Eddy S. F. Yeung is Postdoctoral Researcher in Comparative Politics at the Department of Politics and International Relations. His research examines how political communication and elite strategy shape democratic legitimacy under autocracy and the psychology of conflict escalation and de-escalation, with a focus on East Asia, the United States, and their interactions. Uniting his body of scholarship is a broader interest in how elites and mass publics influence one another in the political system, both domestic and international.