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