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 The first edition of the AGS Seminar Series on Religion and International Relations on February 3-4 was a success, with over thirty scholars, diplomats, government researchers and graduate students who came from institutions in France and Italy, to participate in the presentations and discussions.
After opening addresses by Dr. Eileen Servidio-Delabre, Professor of International Law and President ...
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 An article by Eileen Servidio-Delabre
President of the American Graduate School in Paris
Two documents have been recently published treating the subject of violence against women in Member States of the European Union (EU). The first, a 2014 Survey conducted by the European Union Agency for Fundamental Rights (FRA), the second, ...
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 With the start of the Spring academic semester, we are happy to be welcoming our new students – and welcoming back our continuing students. As always at AGS, this semester's incoming students form a diverse group, coming from the US, Kenya, Rwanda, Egypt, Oman, France, and Taiwan. AGS embraces this diversity of backgrounds and ...
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 On February 3-4, the American Graduate School in Paris will host the first in a series of seminars on the theme of Religion and International Relations. These seminars will seek to explore the links between religious beliefs and global politics. As John Ikenberry, an International Relations theorist at Princeton University, states: “Religious movements can reinforce state ...
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 On December 1st, the Middle East Society invited Evelyne Accad to talk about women's movements in the Middle East, particularly in Lebanon and Tunisia.
Ms. Accad discussed the lack of access to basic human rights for women in most Middle Eastern countries, describing the oppression that they undergo through forced marriage, polygamy, and various ...
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 Myron Manns is a second year master’s student at AGS and a professional writer from Flint, Michigan. He recounts the events of his first year as a graduate student in Paris briefly below.
"Arriving in September of 2015, I was excited to start the Master in International Relations and Diplomacy program in what I considered ...
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 On October 14th, Caroline Newman, Executive President of Kids Empowerment, a Paris-based NGO dedicated to the protection of children's rights internationally, was a guest speaker in Dr. Ruchi Anand's class on NGO Management. She gave an overview on the legal frameworks affecting NGOs.
In her talk, Ms. Newman discussed how at the international level, NGOs are essentially ...
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 Sivan Ghasem, Class of 2017 went to Iraqi Kurdistan this past July to conduct field research for her Master's thesis in International Relations and Diplomacy. Sivan's thesis focuses on the rise of ISIS, examining this issue in relation to the US withdrawal, Nouri Al Maliki's policies, and the process of debaathification in Iraq. She ...
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 Eileen Servidio-Delabre, the President of the American Graduate School in Paris, was invited to award the degrees at the graduation ceremony of AGS’s partner institution Université Paris-Sud, together with UPS’s professors, program director Michèle Guillaume-Hofnung and Princess Esther Kamatari.
The ceremony was held on September 24th in the French Senate. The graduates were awarded a Master’s degree ...
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 Emirjona Cake, a Ph.D. Candidate at AGS, was a guest speaker in Professor Anand’s NGO class on September 16, where she gave a presentation about the role of NGOs in emergency response.
Titled “How NGOs are Bridging the Gap in Humanitarian Issues”, her talk focused on the respective impact of NGOs and Intergovernmental Organizations on humanitarian aid, ...
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After working in financial services for ten years, AGS has provided me with a platform of different views and new perspectives on world affairs from which to build a new career in international relations.