Subfield: Comparative Politics / Subfield: Comparative Politics

Ali T Ahmed, New York University

Basil Bastaki, University of Chicago

In Search for Modern State in China, or Revive it? - Lu Xia, Renmin University of China, The University of Hong Kong

Organizational Manipulation and Mobilization of the Ethiopian Tewahedo Orthodox Church - Christopher Rhodes, Boston University

The Expansion of Criminal Organizations to Strong States: Evidence from the South to North of Italy Transplantation - Gemma Dipoppa, University of Pennsylvania

The Thoughts of Karl Marx and It’s Contemporary Value For The Nigerian State - Humphrey Ukeaja, University of Abuja

Dancing Amongst the Demons - The Root Causes and Consequences of Xenophobic Violence in Post-Apartheid South Africa - Yusuf Bulbulia, The University of Toronto, Canada

On the Edge of Greatness: The Practice of Standard Revolutionary Peking Opera before and after Reform - Lu Xia, Renmin University of China, The University of Hong Kong; Lei Gao, University of International Business & Economics