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 On April 19-20, the American Graduate School in Paris hosted its 7th Annual Graduate Student Conference on "The Roles and Challenges of Diplomacy in the 21st Century: Inclusion and Exclusion in a Globalized World". Participants from Norway, Canada, South Africa, India, the United States, Russia, Spain, Australia, Lebanon, Israel, Iran, Germany, Switzerland, Portugal, Sri Lanka, Barbados, Venezuela, ...
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 Author and journalist Alan Riding led a discussion on "The Social Responsibilities of Writers and Artists" at AGS on Wednesday April 18. Riding based his talk on the extended research he did for his latest book And the Show Went On: Cultural Life in Nazi-Occupied Paris (Knopf: New York 2010), as well as on the knowledge ...
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 On April 19-20, the undergraduate students spending a semester in Paris in the Arcadia-AGS Study Abroad program went on a two-day trip to Strasbourg, France. Since Strasbourg is one of the EU capitals, this allowed them to see firsthand what they discussed in class. Along with AGS study abroad coordinator Jennifer Wright, they visited the Council of ...
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 Ten AGS alumni and students met with Pennsylvania Governor Tom Corbett during a reception hosted for the Governor's first investment and trade mission to France. The reception was open to alumni and students of all Pennsylvania colleges and universities residing in France. The Master's in International Relations and Diplomacy at AGS being an affiliated program of
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 M.A. candidate Erika Rodriguez (class of 2013) recently published an article entitled "Venezuela's Love Affair With China" on the Latin American Bureau (LAB)'s website. Erika's article talks about the dynamics between China, Venezuela and the US, and illustrates the idea of Venezuela's oil being used as a diplomatic weapon.
"I explore the effect that Venezuela's oil trade with ...
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 AGS sponsored the participation of Master's student Etienne Rosas (Class of 2012) in a Model UN conference in Utrecht, Netherlands, on February 25-26. This is intended to open the way for the participation of AGS student groups in future MUN conferences around the world.
This two-day conference was organized by University College Utrecht (UCU). Etienne Rosas (2nd from ...
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 The first Wine and Cheese evening of the Spring semester was held on February 22nd on the theme: "Emergence of China: End of the West's Dominance?" The discussion was animated by H.E. Dominique Dreyer, former Ambassador of Switzerland to China and India, and a faculty member at AGS, who lived and worked in China for almost twenty ...
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 For the start of the new semester on Thursday, February 9th, AGS welcomed new students from Russia, Hungary, Spain and the US. They joined the International Relations and Diplomacy Master's and Ph.D. programs. The new semester also marked the arrival of two new Assistant Professors on the AGS faculty: Dr. Tatiana Coutto, from Brazil, will be teaching ...
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 AGS now offers a humanitarian internship program every summer in Mauritius, off the East coast of the African continent. Thanks to a newly signed partnership with the Rushmore Business School, located South of the capital Port Louis, students enrolled in the M.A. in International Relations and Diplomacy at AGS have the opportunity to participate in a 10-week ...
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 AGS has signed a new academic partnership with UC Berkeley Extension, the professional and continuing education branch of the University of California, Berkeley: students enrolled in one of the International Relations graduate programs at AGS now have the opportunity to attend a two-month summer program on Management and Leadership in San Francisco, CA, and earn a Certificate ...
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Every day the news is filled with stories about foreign leaders, wars, peace talks, and tragedies. Our students learn how to fit together those pieces like a puzzle, and through the lens of international relations, understand the world as it is.