Haoyi Su

Haoyi Su is a scholar of comparative politics specializing in civil–military relations, state-building, regime dynamics, and historical political economy in East and Southeast Asia. He earned his PhD in Political Science from Zhejiang University and holds a B.A. and M.A. in History from Renmin University of China, where his research examined the coevolution of Chinese military thought and governance systems. His academic work focuses on party-military dynamics, elite absorption, and state capacity, drawing on extensive field research and original event-level historical databases across Southeast Asia and China. Dr. Su has published extensively in premier academic journals—including Political Science Studies, Academic Monthly, and Comparative Political Studies—and has translated major scholarship on postcolonial statehood.