“I thank the University leadership for nominating me, and I look forward to learning new skills during my fellowship year,” says Mehrzad Boroujerdi, professor and chair of political science at the Maxwell School,  who has been named an American Council on Education (ACE) Fellow for the 2017-18 academic year.

"Serbia is still negotiating with the EU to join the group," says Brian Taylor, professor of political science. "But it wouldn’t be surprising if Serbia was trying to keep its options open in terms of East and West.”

"Despite being a single-party polity, public preferences in China correlate strongly with ideological orientation. Put simply, China’s liberals are more tolerant, support free markets and prefer a softer foreign policy. Conservatives support state intervention and promotion of traditional culture and remain suspicious of Western ideas and institutions," writes Dimitar Gueorguiev, assistant professor political science.