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 Dr. Patrick Bratton, published an article entitled "Coping with China: Indian Security Perceptions of a Rising China" in Stratégie, Puissance et Influence Chinoises depuis la Guerre Froide (Paris: L’Harmattan, 2013). In this edited book which explores the security implications of the rise of China sine the end of the Cold War, Dr. Bratton's article examines the increased sense of threat ...
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 On November 25, Ambassador Dominique Dreyer gave a lecture on “Culture and Diplomacy” at the Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (Swiss Federal Institute of Technology of Lausanne) in Switzerland. On December 4, he gave a lecture on “Law and Culture in South and East Asia” as part of the Master of Law in Cross-Cultural Business ...
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 Professor Ruchi Anand participated in the Annual Convention of the International Studies Association (ISA), which brought together an estimated 6,000 scholars and professional practitioners from all continents in San Francisco, April 3-6, 2013. This year's convention was held on the theme "The Politics of International Diffusion: Regional and Global Dimensions". Professor Anand's paper was part of a ...
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 Professor Régis Bismuth presented a paper at an international conference held in Québec, Canada, at the University of Laval, on the theme: "State Capitalism in the New Global Political Economy", November 21-24 2013.
Professor Bismuth's paper focused on "The Legal Framework for the Regulation of Political and Economic Risks of State Capitalism". As Bismuth explains, foreign investments that ...
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 On October 8th, Professor Yates traveled to Erbil, the capital of Kurdistan, Iraq to present a paper on "Ethnicity, Violence and Oil-Rent in Gabon" for an international scientific colloquium hosted by the Institut Français du Proche-Orient (IFPO), one of the oldest French institutions specialized in the study of the Near East. His paper described how the influx of massive amounts ...
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 Professor Steve McGiffen's paper, "European Neighbourhood Policy: Path to Democracy or Road to Co-option? Dynamic versus Passive Revolution in the Arab Spring" will be published early in 2014 as part of a book, Renegotiating the Social Contract in Africa, to be published in South Africa by the Africa Institute of South Africa.
On 18th-19th January 2014, Professor Steve ...
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 Ambassador Wilfried Bolewski, professor of Diplomacy and International Law at AGS, participated in an interview with the online international affairs magazine The Paris Globalist (November 26th, 2013), giving his expertise on the ongoing crisis in Syria through the lens of international law.
In his interview, Ambassador Bolewski states that the preconditions ...
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Professor Régis Bismuth authored an article in France's leading online newspaper LeMonde.fr, discussing the possibility for France to refer the case of the NSA's alledged surveillance program of its diplomacy to the International Court of Justice.
In his article, Professor Bismuth explains that such a referral could be done under the Vienna Convention of 1961 that was ratified ...
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On August 30th, Douglas Yates was invited by the Center for Conflict Resolution to Stellenbosch, South Africa, to present a paper on "The French Peacekeeping Role in Africa", to be published in a forthcoming edited volume. This presentation was part of a conference on the theme of “Peacekeeping and Peacebuilding in Africa,”In his paper, Professor Yates discusses ...
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 Professor Elizabeth Milovidov will participate in an international seminar on "Sexual Tourism Implicating Children: Prevention, Protection, Interdiction and Care for Victims" to take place on October 15-18 at the International Institute for the Rights of the Child in Geneva, Switzerland. This seminar is organized under the direction of Jean Zermatten, Chairman of the
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AGS has not only introduced and allowed me to explore the ideas of the scholars in the field, but also to explore my own ideas in the hopes that they become a part of the larger discipline.