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As part of its educational and research mission, AGS is dedicated to fighting violence against women in the world. In 2014, AGS hosted an international conference on this theme, which brought together an audience of over 180 including scholars, policy-makers, diplomats, and other practitioners of international relations. The AGS research center is currently working ...
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 The spring semester has started at AGS. As always, the new students who have joined us this semester come from all four corners of the globe. This term we are welcoming students from the United States, India, Liberia, Nigeria, Ghana, Italy, and Argentina.
Theresa Verdoscia, the Director of Admissions, who has been working with these students over ...
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 For its last event of the Fall semester, on December 3rd, the AGS Middle East Society hosted a talk on the Human Rights Situation in the Gulf Region, highlighting Bahrain as one of the countries that participated in the Arab Spring in 2011.
The guest speakers were three human rights activists from Bahrain: Hussein Jawed, Chairman of ...
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 The Call for Papers is now out for the 11th AGS International Graduate Student conference. This year's edition will tackle the challenging topic of the role of religion in world affairs, under the title: "The Complexity of Religion in International Relations: Theoretical, Legal and Geopolitical Perspectives." The conference will take place in Paris on April 21st-22nd.
The ...
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 This is an opinion piece written by Ahmed Samy Lotf, a candidate in the Master’s program of International Relations and Diplomacy at AGS, after the 13th of November terror attacks that took place in Paris. Ahmed was born in Egypt; he was in Cairo during the Egyptian revolution in 2011, and in Turkey during ...
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 Based on an initiative by AGS students under the impulse of Professors Mariam Habibi and Joav Toker, the AGS Middle East Society was started this Fall as a platform for information and discussion about Middle Eastern politics, culture, and current issues. Activities include regular guest talks by specialists on the topic along with screenings or debates; ...
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 The Fall semester has begun. New students have come from all corners of the globe – from Thailand to Liberia, from the USA to Georgia, from Canada to India – to pursue their Master's or Ph.D. degree of International Relations and Diplomacy at AGS in Paris alongside our continuing graduate students and ...
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 Like every year for the past dozen years, AGS held its end-of-year festivities in the French Senate, under the sponsorship of a French Senator. This year, Jean-Léonce Dupont, Senator of Calvados, was AGS's official host. Graduating students and their families, along with fellow students, alumni, faculty, and guests from the AGS international community gathered around a ...
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 The inaugural issue of The Journal of International Relations, Peace Studies and Development, an online-only annual academic journal published jointly by the American Graduate School in Paris and Arcadia University, has just been made available as an open source to users worldwide. AGS celebrated an "avant-première" soft launch with the international affairs community in Paris on ...
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 By Emirjona Cake, PhD Candidate at AGS
On Thursday March 19, 2015, Dr. Rahel Steinbach, Programme Officer at UNEP, Energy Branch, Division of Technology, Industry and Economics and Marie Jalabert, Gender and Energy Efficiency Consultant with UNEP, gave a presentation at AGS in Dr. Anand’s class on International Environmental Politics entitled “Gender and Sustainable Development”. This talk ...
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As citizens of the world community, AGSers share a deep will to improve international state of affairs. This drive for change translates into prescriptive discussion between students and teachers, not simply criticism. I most admire this quality about AGS and know that because we have the will to improve the system, we are the way for change.