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 Like every year since the first edition of the Africa Yearbook (Leiden: Brill) in 2004, Professor Yates authored the chapter on Gabon in the 2014 edition. This year, also featured is AGS alumnus Joseph Mangarella, who authored the chapter on Equatorial Guinea. Joseph Mangarella completed his Master's degree in International Relations and Diplomacy at AGS, with ...
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 Professor David Wingeate Pike (Contemporary History and Politics) has just sent to press a work on the Channel Islands under Nazi occupation, which he wrote in collaboration with his former student Anne Farache, whose father was sent to Aurigny as a slave laborer and was one of the few to survive. This work will appear in three ...
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 Ambassador Wilfried Bolewski (Ph.D.), our Professor of International Law and Diplomacy, has been invited by Dr. Corneliu Bjola, from the University of Oxford, to join the board of a new peer-review journal entitled Diplomacy and Foreign Policy, to be published as of Spring 2016. This quarterly journal will provide an open forum for reference publication, critical analysis ...
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 On September 12, Professor Elizabeth Milovidov attended the 2014 Day of General Discussion organized by the United Nations Committee on the Rights of the Child in the Palais des Nations in Geneva. This year's theme was "Digital Media and Children's Rights." A specialist of children's rights and internet safety, Elizabeth Milovidov was invited to participate in the proceedings ...
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 In July Professor Ruchi Anand taught a summer course at Princeton University, as part of the Junior State of America programs. Dr. Anand has taught with JSA Summer Programs since 2001 at their Georgetown, Stanford and Princeton campuses.
This specialized summer program, which has been in existence for 80 ...
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 Professor Graziano's latest book has been accepted for publication by Columbia University Press. The subject is the geopolitics of religions: Manlio Graziano explains why, and when, religion has gained back its major role and impact in international relations. The French manuscript is currently being translated into English under the working title Holy War or Holy ...
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 Professor Yates was interviewed for Al Jazeera’s flagship discussion show ‘Empire’ about the increasing presence of Chinese, French and American military forces and business interests on the African continent. This show will be broadcast this Sunday, July 27, at 20h00 GMT, under 'What does this New Scramble for Africa mean for Africans?'
The interview took place on the ...
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Prof. Elizabeth Milovidov conducted a series of workshops on Gender and Leadership in Dakar, at Yavuz Selim Middle School, on July 15-16. She spoke on themes such as women empowerment, gender and equality, and women leadership to raise awareness on these issues among the young generations.
These workshops were organized by COPFULEF, a nonprofit association bringing together ...
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AGS Professor Ambassador Wilfried Bolewski was interviewed on BBC Radio 5‘s Up All Night show on May 14th, where he discussed this week’s visit by German Foreign Minister Steinmeier to Kiev in order to assist in mediating the ongoing Ukrainian crisis. As a former German Ambassador and the former Chief of Protocol under Angela Merkel and Gerhard ...
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 Professor Tatiana Coutto will participate in an International Conference on disarmament in the Middle East, which will take place in Geneva (Switzerland) on June 25. The event will be chaired by Director of the United Nations Institute for Disarmament Research (UNIDIR), Theresa Hitchens, and will be titled "The Middle East Zone Free of Nuclear Weapons and Other Weapons of ...
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Moving to Paris has taken a top rank amongst the most challenging things I have experienced in life so far. AGS – the classes, my colleagues, and the school staff – provided for me a sanity that I had lost! This program is phenomenal and is giving me opportunities to do some really cool things, such as being invited to intern for a summer at a school/community outreach program in Tanzania.