The International University of Humanities and Social Sciences has recently established the Central American Institute of Asia Pacific Studies (CAI-APS) to promote Asia Pacific Studies in Central America through academic and research programs, publications and international conferences. The Asia Pacific region is very diverse therefore the CAI-APS will have a few specialized sub-regional academic and research programs e.g. South Asian Studies, Southeast Asian Studies etc.

The CAI-APS will continue to expand the scope of Asia Pacific Studies through international networking and outreach programs. Therefore, presently the CAI-APS is active in forging academic and research collaborations with relevant academic institutes and research organizations in Central America and the Asia Pacific region. Through cooperation with academic institutions, we wish to offer opportunities to students of Asia Pacific Studies from universities across the world to come and benefit from rich academic resources at the CAI-APS in the beautiful Costa Rica. Through research collaborations, the staff at the CAI-APS offers the opportunity to students to interact with our highly qualified research faculty to enhance the scope of their research. Also research institutions and individual researcher are invited to contact us to further discuss the possibility of collaboration in the area of Asia Pacific Studies.

IUHS is based on a new paradigm in education combining the best of distance education with the personal touch of on campus instruction. Our hybrid programs are taught by highly qualified scholars from various countries.  

Asst. Prof. Isiaka Alani Badmus, M.S., Ph.D. Scholar, Deputy Director, CAI-APS

Yin C. Chuang, Ph.D.                 Assistant Professor, Taiwan Normal University, (Taipei, Taiwan),      Associate Fellow, Central American Institute of Asia Pacific Studies

Muhammad Junaid Nadvi, Ph.D.   Assistant Professor, International Islamic University, (Islamabad, Pakistan), Associate Senior Fellow, CAI-APS

Ruan Wei, Ph.D.   

Professor of English Literature and Comparative Civilization, University of Shenzhen, (Nanshan, PRC), Associate Senior Fellow, CAI-APS

Alfred Gerstl, Ph.D.

Lecturer in International Security Studies, Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia. Chief Editor, Austrian Journal of South-East Asian Studies (ASEAS). Associate Research Fellow, CAI-APS.

Seema Shekhawat, Ph.D.
Centre for African Studies
University of Mumbai, Associate Research Fellow, CAI-APS

Stuti Bhatnagar, MA, MPhil (PhD candidate, Center for West Asian studies, School of International Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, India), Research Fellow, CAI-APS

 
IUHS jointly publishes important book with JAPSS. La “Economía de“Burbuja” en Japón by Erneschè Rodríguez Asien, M.S. of the Universidad de la Habana (Cuba) is an important study explaining the economic problems of Japan in the late 20th century and early years of the 21st.  (April 19, 2010)
CAI-APS signed an agreement with the South Asian Centre for Peace (SACP) based in Pakistan to cooperate in the promotion of peace and sustainable development in the region. (May 19, 2010)