1-Comparing electoral and constitutional systems in Russia, China, and the developing world

2-Comparing party systems in Russia, China, and the developing world

3-Comparing processes of democratization

4-Comparing structures of authoritarian rule

5-Key current foreign relations issues in Russia, China, and the developing world

6-Managing religious and ethnic divisions

7-The shift from import substitution to neoliberalism/globalization

8- The development of the nation-state and globalization in historical perspective

9- The electoral and constitutional systems in Europe and the US

10- Examples of the political implications of different constitutional structures

11- The nature of European political party systems, generally and in specific cases

12- Keynesian and neoliberal transformations of European Politics