1. Embedding Militarized Socialism: The Sociogenesis of the Post-Revolutionary Statecraft in China (1946-1959) • Yuting Chen, University of Chicago.

2. Completing What the Ottomans Left Unfinished: Dersim as an Internal Colony across Empire and Nation-State (1877-1938) • Cevat Dargin, Princeton University.

3. The Collapse of Empire and the Transformation of Frontier Elite Politics: State-Building in the Greater Xinjiang Region, 1911–1919 • Zikui Wei, The University of Chicago.

4. The Long-Run Effects of Weak States: Evidence from the Viking Settlement of Eastern England • Anders Wieland, Aarhus University.