American Graduate School of International Relations and Diplomacy

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American Graduate School of International Relations and Diplomacy
Established: 1994
Location: Paris, France

Founded in 1994 in Paris, France, the American Graduate School of International Relations and Diplomacy (referred to locally as AGS) offers M.A. and Ph.D. degrees in international relations and diplomacy.

Its campus is located in Paris in the Alliance Française Building, on the left bank of the Seine River, between Montparnasse and the traditional student area of the Latin Quarter.

It is designated by the French Ministry of Education as an Etablissement privé d’enseignement supérieur and is an affiliated campus of Arcadia University, United States.

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[edit] The program

AGSIRD combines the American graduate system of education (dialogue, individual attention, extensive out-of-the-classroom observation) with the resources of Paris, benefiting from the presence there of nearly 200 diplomatic missions and more than twice that number of governmental and non-governmental international organisations (OECD, UNESCO, etc.).

It focuses on the interaction of nation-states (international relations) but also gives a major attention to the private sector which national governments have less ability to control (trans-national relations).

AGS students study major theories of international relations, macroeconomics and microeconomics, rules of international law, and the practices of diplomacy, along with other core subjects such as: international organisations, global communication, international development…

Students also have a wide range of elective topics such as geopolitics, arms control, origins of global conflict, area studies (Africa, Latin America, Middle-East, etc.), gender and environmental issues.

Classes are taught in English.

AGS graduates enter such fields of work as government civil service, politics, international business, international organisations, journalism, research and education.

[edit] History and mission

In 1993, John Lee, who was a lawyer and professor, together with two other American practitioners of international relations, decided to found a school addressing the needs of graduate students who would work in a world quite different from that of the 20th century.

The dismantling of the Berlin Wall and the dissolution of the Soviet Union had ended an era dominated by ideological values and systematic confrontation that had suppressed and partially hidden cultural and historical cleavages. Education of the next generations would have to be broader, more penetrating, more creative and much more subtle.

AGSIRD inaugurated its program in the summer of 1994 in Paris, with a mission of treating international relations and diplomacy as a manifestation of human nature, seeking expression, order, justice and peace.

[edit] Designation and partners

AGSIRD is an affiliated campus of Arcadia University, Glenside, Pennsylvania, USA.

Its M.A. degree is accredited by the Middle States Commission on Higher Education of the Middle States Association of Colleges and Schools.

AGSIRD is a member of the Association of American Colleges and Universities, Washington, D.C.

AGSIRD is a non-profit association, designated by the French Ministry of Education and its Académie de Paris as an Etablissement Privé d’Enseignement Supérieur, and is authorised by the French Ministry of the Interior as an Institution of Higher Learning.

AGS conducts a cooperative program with the Université de Paris Sud XI, which includes a bilingual dual degree, as well as an exchange of faculty members and of credits, and extends to joint research activities between AGSIRD and the Center for the Analysis of Disputes and their Modes of Settlement (CADMOS).

AGSIRD also has a cooperative agreement with the Law School of the Université de Cergy-Pontoise, France, with an exchange of students and of credits.

[edit] The faculty

The faculty of the American Graduate School of International Relations and Diplomacy are international. Its members come from the United States and numerous other countries such as India, Venezuela, Great-Britain, Germany, Italy, Austria, Switzerland, Iran, Lebanon and Israel.

They are graduates from such universities as Oxford, Harvard, Princeton, the Sorbonne, Stanford, Columbia, Berkeley, Johns Hopkins, Duke, among others.

[edit] The student body

AGSIRD students come from the United States and France as well as from many other countries around the world: Japan, India, China, Senegal, Egypt, Saudi Arabia, Iceland, Mongolia, Brazil, Ecuador, Guatemala to mention just a few. The institution is small enough for every student, administrator and faculty member to know each other.

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