Selected Publications


Book Chapters/Peer-Reviewed Articles

  • “Monthly Observation Research by Community Researchers:Coping with Dangerous Situations and Multiple Crises in Post-coup Myanmar”,Journal of Burma studies, Vol 28, No 1 (2024), pp 203-245. Co-authored with Ardeth M Thawnghmung

  • “Water in One Hand, Fire in the Other:” Coping with Multiple Crises in Post-coup Burma/Myanmar”, Critical Asian Studies, 2022. Co-authored with Ardeth M Thawnghmung, Naw Moo Moo Paw, Duncan Boughton

  • “The contentious politics of anti-Muslim scapegoating in Myanmar: Special issue of the Journal on communal conflict in Myanmar”, Journal of Contemporary Asia, 47(3), 353-375 (2017). Co-authored paper with Gerry van Klinken.

  • “The Executive”, Handbook of Contemporary Myanmar, Routledge, (December 2017) Co-authored paper with Ian Holliday

  • “Myanmar Ethnic Peace Process: Strategy of the government in the ongoing democratic transition”, Re-integrating into International Community, World Scientific Publishing, Singapore (2016).

  • “The politics of policymaking in transitional government: A case study of ethnic peace process in Myanmar”, ISEAS conference series.(2016)

  • “Governing the transition : policy coordination mechanisms in the Myanmar core executive”, PhD Dissertation, University of Hong Kong, (2017)


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Source: Su’s reading corner in Yangon, Myanmar during Covid.


Policy Papers

  • “Reinventing Territorial Self-Governance in Myanmar: Kachin’s New Approach and Its Dilemma in Post-Coup Myanmar”ISEAS Perspective 2025.

  • “Myanmar’s Quest for a Federal and Democratic Future: Considerations, Constraints and Compromises” ISEAS Perspective 2022.

  • “What do the Official Chinese Media’s Mixed Messages on the Myanmar Coup Mean?” ISEAS Perspective 2022. Co-authored with Nan Lwin.

  • “Assessment on Lawmakers’ understanding of Federal and Democratic Principles”, Institute for Strategy and Policy- Myanmar (July 2020). Co-authored paper with Cho Zin Thet

  • “Managing Change: Executive Policy-making in Myanmar”,Asia Foundation, 2018. Co-authored paper with Mathrew Arnold.

Commentaries

  • A Crisis of Trust: The SAC’s Failure in Post-Disaster Strategic Communications, Fulcrum, May 2025

  • Asian Angle | Trump’s aid freeze will hit Myanmar hard, Southern China Morning Post, Feb 2025

  • Trump’s Aid Cuts Could Devastate Myanmar More Than Anyone Expects, Fulcrum, Feb 2025

  • Myanmar in 2025: Change or Plus ça Change? Fulcrum, Jan 2025 Co-authored with Kyaw Yin Hlaing, Kyi Sin, Jared Bissinger, Moe Thuzar

  • Myanmar’s Silent Disease: How Everyday Bribery Fuels Autocratic Control, Fulcrum, Jan 2025

  • Women in Myanmar: Addressing Cracks Beneath the Tough Facade,Fulcrum, Dec 2024

  • Human Suffering in Myanmar: The Need for International Attention, Fulcrum, Dec 2021

  • The New Battlefront in Myanmar’s Economy: Fake News, Fulcrum, Oct 2021

  • “Is peace on the horizon for Myanmar”,East Asia Forum, May 24,2017.

  • “Why Burma’s Top General Is Playing Peacemaker”,Foreign Policy, May 15,2014

  • “The Man To Watch”,Foreign Policy, January 15,2014.

Articles/ analytical pieces published in Burmese language will be available upon request.