AGS Annual Graduate Student Conference

Every year, the American Graduate School in Paris hosts an conference on a specific theme of international relations, organized by graduate students enrolled in its International Relations and Diplomacy programs under the faculty supervision of Professor Ruchi Anand.

The AGS International Graduate Student Conference is open to Master and Ph.D. students from around the world, as well as scholars, researchers and professionals from think tanks, NGOs, Intergovernmental Organizations, governmental agencies, and research centers.

Each annual edition focuses on a different theme of International Relations.

Through information, debate, and dialogue, this AGS International Graduate Student Conference offers a platform for exchanges of ideas on a broad range of issues and challenges related to international relations. The aims to contribute innovative approaches to the advancement of that field.

Conference 2023

Russia's War in Ukraine :
The Implications, Aftermath, and Possible End

Friday, April 28, 2023


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Previous editions

In the previous years, conferences have covered the following themes:

• 2022:
  The Post-Covid World Dis/Order: Opportunities and/Or Challenges
  

• 2021:
  Statelessness in International Relations: Causes, Consequences, and Covid-19

• 2020:
  Due to the Covid-19 pandemic, the 2020 conference was rescheduled to 2021

• 2019:
  The New Landscape of International Relations: Globalism vs Populism

• 2018:
  Refugee Politics in International Relations

• 2017:
  Off the Beaten Track: Non-Western Perspectives in International Relations

• 2016:
  The Complexity of Religion in International Relations: Theoretical, Legal and Geopolitical Perspectives

• 2015:
  The Role and Influence of NGOs in Global Governance: From Grassroots to Global

• 2014:
  Cyber-developments in International Relations: Impacts on an Evolving World"

• Previous editions:

2013:
Identity and Gender Politics within International Relations

2012:
The Roles and Challenges of Diplomacy in the 21st Century: Inclusion and Exclusion in a Globalized World

2011:
The Politics of Disaster: The Mitigation, Management, and International Response to Environmental Crises

2010:
Evolving Borders: Identity and Affiliation in a Volatile International Landscape

2009:
Democracy in the 21^st Century: Relevant, Redundant or Risk?

2008:
Searching Beyond the State: Intercultural Dialogue and Alternative Approaches to International Politics

2007:
Current Challenges and Future Trends in International Security

2006:
Order and Disorder in a Changing World