On March 9, AGS faculty member Ambassador Samira Hanna-El-Daher gave a presentation at the French Airforce Academy (Ecole de l'Air) on the subject of Lebanon.
Professor Hanna-El-Daher spoke to an audience of over 400 Air Force officers and future officers who are students, alumni or faculty of the Ecole de l'Air. Her presentation was followed ...
AGS professor Ambassador Samira Hanna-El-Daher was one of the election observers in Chad during the last legislative elections on February 13, as a member of the delegation of the International Organization of the Francophonie (Organisation Internationale de la Francophonie).
Durnig her assignment which extended from February 8-16, she worked in cooperation with the other election monitoring missions ...
Douglas Yates was recently interviewed by the online news website ibnews.com about the next French presidential elections which will be held in 2012. Professor Yates answered the journalist's questions about the candidacy of the leader of France's main right-wing political group. See interview here.
Professor Steve McGiffen gave a talk on "Genetically Modified Organisms: Unsustainable, Undesirable and Unnecessary" at New York University's Paris campus on November 24.
Ambassador Samira Hanna-El-Daher, who teaches the course on Foreign Policy Formulation and Diplomacy at AGS, was invited to be a member of the jury of a Ph.D. in Political Science dissertation defense at Université de Montpellier I in France on November 26.
The Ph.D. dissertation was on the following topic: "The Founding of the Ministry of Foreign ...
David Pike’s new book, Franco y el Eje Roma-Berlín-Tokio: una alianza no firmada, has just been published in Madrid, Spain by Editorial Alianza. It includes sixteen photographs, most of them up to now unpublished, of Hitler’s and Mussolini’s inner circles; the photos were supplied by Süddeutsche Zeitung in Munich and Cinecittà Luce in Rome. The new work is ...
Professor Douglas Yates has been invited by the US Department of State to participate in an ambassadorial seminar on October 4 in Washington, D.C. The full-day seminar is co-sponsored by the Department of State's Bureau of Intelligence and Research and the National Intelligence Council and will be on the topic of Gabon, Sao Tome ...
Dr. Eileen Servidio-Delabre was on English language radio network Radio France International on August 27 to comment on proposals by the French government to strip foreign-born Frenchmen of their nationality in cases including commiting a crime against a public officer or practicing polygamy. Professor Servidio discussed the constitutional validity of these proposed amendments and ...
In July Prof. Anand will participate in the Junior Statesmen of America summer program at Princeton University, teaching a course on International Relations. The Junior Statesmen programs are aimed at outstanding highschool students who have a passion for government and politics. These programs have existed for 75 years and are taught at Georgetown, Stanford, and Princeton.
Dr. Steve McGiffen authored a paper entitled: "The European Union as 'Universalist' Project: Developing a Critical Left Response", in Politika Annual Journal 2009, published by the Politics and Public Administration Association of Hong Kong University.