1. ‘Should I Stay or Should I Go?’: Politics and Patterns of Settler Withdrawal in Independent Morocco • Benjamin Kaplow, University of Michigan - Ann Arbor.

2. Explaining Political and Social Change in Post-Liberation Southern Africa • Salih O. Noor, The University of Chicago.

3. Elite Coalitions and Nation-Building in Post-Colonial Malaya: Colonial Legacies and Political Realignments during the Malayan Emergency • Yusheng Wu, Univeristy of Chicago.

4. Classifying Old Collaborators for a New State: The Politics of Ambiguity and Institutional Transition in Post-Colonial Northeast China, 1946–1952 • Yuchao Yao, University of Virginia.