On March 4 and March 15, 2018 the Department of International and Comparative Politics held crisis games in English for high-school students in Osh and Bishkek where young people discussed and debated on a topic of “Crisis on the Korean Peninsula”.

Razia Gul is a junior student at AUCA who is currently majoring in International and Comparative Politics and minoring in Journalism and Mass Communication. Razia has spent her 2017-2018 fall semester in one of the oldest universities in the world Philipps University Marburg, Germany

This semester, the Writing and Academic Resource Center (WARC) introduced tutoring sessions in programming by request from the Student Senate. This initiative—which became an immediate success, with all of the programming sessions booked on a regular basis--marks the first example of close cooperation between the Student Senate and the WARC.  We asked the Student Senators to tell us more about this project.

On February 10, AUCA hosted the Open House Day, where all departments and divisions presented their programs to applicants and their parents.

We continue to write about AUCA students that spend a semester on exchange at various universities around the world. Mohammad Tamim Karimi is a junior student from International and Comparative Politics Department at AUCA. Tamim spent one semester as an exchange student at Bard College Berlin.

Mustafa Shirzad, junior student from Economics department who recently has returned to AUCA from an Exchange semester at Norwegian University of Life Sciences NMBU, Norway, tells his story about exchange semester in Norway

Uulkan Dzholdoshbekovna Kambaralieva has been awarded with the Certificate of Merit of the Supreme Attestation Commission of the Kyrgyz Republic

On December 11, the Prime Minister of the Kyrgyz Republic, Sapar Isakov honored AUCA with a high state award - the Order of Dostuk. Andrew Wachtel, the President of AUCA has received it

The Department of International and Comparative Politics of American University of Central Asia held on November 30, 2017 an inaugural workshop of a newly created Regional Center for Central Asia of Varieties of Democracy Institute (V-Dem).

SPEAKER: Gabriel McGuire, Nazarbayev University
Abstract: The paradox of the horse in Central Asia is that it appear, at first glance, to simultaneously hold the place of ideal companion and ideal food. In Kazakhstan, the meat of horses above all other animals holds the highest value: its acquisition drives households to band together to collect the money necessary for its purchase; its presence at funerals, weddings, and seasonal celebrations mark these events as qualitatively different from everyday life.