Displacement & Retrenchment in US Foreign Policy: the Trump-Tillerson "Redesign" - Ryan Dukeman, Princeton University

The Paradox for Legimatization: Electoral Governance Reforms in Europe and Asia - Takeshi Ito, University of Tokyo

Re-examining the Theories on Factional Exclusion in Maoist China - Yinan Luo, Tsinghua University

Political Economy of Regional Elite Splits - Pau Vall-Prat, Universitat de Barcelona

From Than Shwe to Suu Kyi: Understanding Myanmar's Recent Political Transition - Lachlan Drew Woods, Michigan State University

Jordan T. Cash Baylor University

Chao-yo Cheng Birkbeck, University of London

19th Century Transformation of International Systems: The Case of East Asia - Jaehan Park, Johns Hopkins University

Oil and Territorial Sovereignty: The Separate Independence of Colonial Areas - Naosuke Mukoyama, University of Cambridge

Haitian Women in Public: Good Governance, Sound Elections & Cultural Mindfulness - Catherine McMullen, Multnomah County

Meena Bose Hofstra University