PAUL H. NITZE SCHOOL OF ADVANCED INTERNATIONAL STUDIES

Mission	To provide a professional education that simultaneously adheres to the highest standards of scholarship and takes a practical approach to training students for international leadership. To conduct scholarly research related to the concerns of public and private institutions of the United States and governments of other countries and disseminate that research to a broad audience concerned with foreign relations. To offer mid-career educational opportunities for those already working in international affairs.
Established	1943
Official name	The Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS)
University	The Johns Hopkins University
School type	Private
Dean	Jessica P. Einhorn
Location	Washington, D.C., USA - Bologna, Italy - Nanjing, China
Enrollment	550 graduate
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The 'Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS)', based in Washington, D.C., is one of the leading graduate schools devoted to the study of international affairs, economics, diplomacy, and policy research and education. SAIS is a part of The Johns Hopkins University.

Contents

Institution

History

Research Centers

Publications

Prominent past and present faculty and administrators

Prominent alumni and former students

References

External links

Institution

SAIS main campus is located on Massachusetts Avenue's Embassy Row, just off of Dupont Circle and a stone's throw away from the Brookings Institution, the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, the Center for Global Development and the Peterson Institute. The school is regarded as a major center of political debate as it served as a base for a number of prominent political scientists and economists. Among them are political economy scholar Francis Fukuyama, political scientist and former National Security Advisor Zbigniew Brzezinski, and Middle East scholar Fouad Ajami.
SAIS is a global school with campuses in three continents. It has nearly 550 full-time students in Washington, D.C., 180 full-time students in Bologna, Italy and about 100 full-time students in Nanjing, China. Of these, 60% come from the United States and 40% from more than 66 other countries. Around 50% are women and 22% are U.S. minority groups. The SAIS Bologna Center is the only full-time international relations graduate program in Europe that operates under an American higher-education system, and the Hopkins-Nanjing Center, which teaches all of its courses in Chinese, is jointly administered by SAIS and Nanjing University.
Courses are taught in over 14 research departments, including International Economics, International Relations, Global Theory & History, International Law, Strategic Studies, Conflict Management, International Development, International Policy (formerly Energy, Environment, Science & Technology (EEST), International Development, African studies, American Foreign Policy, Asian studies, China Studies, Japan Studies, Southeast Asia Studies, South Asia Studies, European Studies, Middle East Studies, Russian & Eurasian Studies, and Western Hemisphere Studies.
SAIS offers multi-disciplinary instruction leading to the degrees of Master of Arts, Master of International Public Policy (MIPP, a mid-career full-time degree), and Doctor of Philosophy. Around 250 students graduate from SAIS Washington, D.C. campus each year from the two-year Master of Arts program in International Relations and International Economics. SAIS also maintains formal joint-degree programs with the Wharton School of Business at the University of Pennsylvania, the Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth College, the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Stanford Law School, the University of Virginia School of Law, and the Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs at Syracuse University.
Since 1990, SAIS and the Fletcher School have been the only non-law schools in the United States to participate in the prestigious Philip C. Jessup International Law Moot Court Competition. Although SAIS students obviously enter the competition with a comparative disadvantage (all of those against whom they compete have at least a year of law school training), they have performed very well. SAIS has twice placed second overall out of 12 schools and advanced to the "final four" in its region. In head-to-head competitions, SAIS has defeated law schools such as Georgetown, Maryland, and Virginia.
A College of William & Mary study examined graduate international relations programs throughout the United States, interviewing over 1,000 professionals in the field, with the results subsequently published in the November/December 2005 issue of Foreign Policy (FP) magazine. One of study's questions asked: "What do you consider the top five terminal masters programs in international relations for students looking to pursue a policy career?" From the study, 65% of respondents named Johns Hopkins University-SAIS as being the top-ranked program. SAIS received the most votes, followed by Georgetown (Walsh), Harvard (Kennedy), Tufts (Fletcher), and Columbia (SIPA), respectively.

History

SAIS was founded in 1943 by Paul H. Nitze and Christian Herter and became part of The Johns Hopkins University in 1950. The school was established during World War II by a group of statesmen who sought new methods of preparing men and women to cope with the international responsibilities that would be thrust upon the United States in the postwar world.
The founders assembled a faculty of scholars and professionals to teach international relations, international economics, and foreign languages to a small group of students. The curriculum was designed to be both scholarly and practical. The natural choice for the location of the school was Washington, D.C., a city where international resources are abundant and where American foreign policy is shaped and set in motion. When the school opened in 1944, 15 students were enrolled.^[1]
In 1955, the school created the Bologna Center in Italy, the first full-time graduate school located in Europe under the American higher-education system. By 1963, SAIS outgrew its first quarters on Florida Avenue and moved to one of its present buildings on Massachusetts Avenue, N.W., Washington DC. In 1986, the Hopkins-Nanjing Center was created in Nanjing, China, completing the school's global presence.

Research Centers

★ Central Asia-Caucasus Institute

★ Center For Constitutional Studies And Democratic Development (Italy)

★ Center for Displacement Studies

★ Center for International Business and Public Policy

★ Center for Strategic Education

★ Center for Transatlantic Relations

★ The Dialogue Project

★ Foreign Policy Institute

★ Hopkins-Nanjing Research Center (China)

★ Institute for International Research (China)

★ International Energy and Environment Program (IEEP)

★ International Reporting Project

★ Philip Merrill Center for Strategic Studies

★ Protection Project

★ Reischauer Center for East Asia Studies

★ Schwartz Forum on Constructive Capitalism

★ SME Institute

★ Swiss Foundation for World Affairs

★ U.S.-Korea Institute

Publications

In addition to the different books and periodicals edited by SAIS departements or research centers, several school-wide publications are to be mentioned:

★ 'Bologna Center Journal of International Affairs', published annually and founded in 1994, is a student-run journal focused on scholarly contributions to international relations.

★ 'Centerpiece', Nanjing Center's alumni newsletter.

★ 'Guide To Experts' in International Affairs, published every two years.

★ 'SAIS Observer' is a student-written, student-run newspaper.

★ 'SAISphere', published annually, features articles about current issues in international affairs, alumni class notes, as well as happenings at the school's campuses.

★ 'SAIS Reports', a newsletter published bimonthly from September through May, highlights new faculty, research institutes, academic programs, student and alumni accomplishments as well as major events at the school.

★ 'SAIS Review', founded in 1956, journal dedicated to advancing the debate on leading contemporary issues of world affairs.

★ 'Working Paper Series', managed by the PhD students.

Prominent past and present faculty and administrators

★ Fouad Ajami - Professor of Middle Eastern Studies and Director of the Council on Foreign Relations

★ Peter Bergen - CNN terrorism analyst and author of ''Holy War, Inc.''

★ Zbigniew Brzezinski - former National Security Advisor to President Carter

★ David P. Calleo - Director of European Studies, author of ''Rethinking Europe's Future''

★ Rajiv Chandrasekaran - Associate Editor, The Washington Post; former SAIS journalist-in-residence for the International Reporting Project; author of ''Imperial Life in the Emerald City: Inside Iraq's Green Zone''

★ Eliot A. Cohen - Professor of Strategic Studies, current Counselor to the U.S. Department of State, author of ''Military Misfortunes: The Anatomy of Failure in War'' and ''Supreme Command: Soldiers, Statesmen, and Leadership in Wartime''

★ W. Max Corden - trade economist, developed Dutch disease model.

★ Francis Deng - former Representative of the UN Secretary-General on Internally Displaced Persons

★ Luis Ernesto Derbez - Mexican minister of Finance and Foreign Affairs

★ Jessica Einhorn - current Dean of SAIS, member of the Board of Directors of Time Warner, former director of the Council on Foreign Relations, and a former managing director of the World Bank

★ Francis Fukuyama - Professor of International Political Economy, Director of the International Development program, and author of ''The End of History''

★ Grace Goodell - Professor of International Development

★ Christian Herter - former U.S. Secretary of State and Governor of Massachusetts

★ Josef Joffe - German journalist

★ Majid Khadduri - Professor of Islamic Law and Middle East specialist

★ Kenneth H. Keller - current Director of the SAIS Bologna Center, former President of the University of Minnesota system

★ Anne O. Krueger - Professor of International Economics, former First Deputy Managing Director of the IMF and World Bank Chief Economist; former President, American Economic Association

★ Paul Linebarger - former Professor of Asiatic Studies, best known as a science fiction author under the pseudonym Cordwainer Smith

★ Marisa Lino - former Director of the SAIS Bologna Center, former U.S. Ambassador to Albania, current Advisor to Assistant Secretary Baker at the U.S. Department of Homeland Security

★ Michael Mandelbaum - Professor of American Foreign Policy

★ John E. McLaughlin - former Deputy Director of the Central Intelligence Agency, Senior Fellow at the Brookings Institution

★ Robert H. Mundell - Nobel Prize in Economics laureate, 1999

★ Azar Nafisi - Muslim feminist and author of ''Reading Lolita in Tehran''

★ Paul H. Nitze - drafter of NSC-68 creating the U.S. Cold War strategy of containment

★ Don Oberdorfer - journalist, Korea expert

★ Riordan Roett - Professor of Latin American studies

★ Robert Skidelsky - economist, biographer of John Maynard Keynes

★ R. Jeffrey Smith - former journalist-in-residence, Pulitzer Prize winner

★ Stephen Szabo - Former Professor of European Studies, current Head of the Transatlantic Academy at the German Marshall Fund

★ Shirin R. Tahir-Kheli - former research professor, current Special Assistant to the U.S. President and U.S. National Security Council Senior Director for Democracy, Human Rights and International Operations

★ Dale C. Thomson - Director of the Center of Canadian Studies, author, Secretary/Advisor to Canadian Prime Minister, Louis St. Laurent

★ Ruth Wedgwood - Professor of International Law

★ Paul Wolfowitz - former President of the World Bank, former U.S. Deputy Secretary of Defense, former Dean of SAIS

★ I. William Zartman - Professor and Director of the Conflict Management program

Prominent alumni and former students

SAIS has more than 10,000 alumni working in approximately 140 countries. Over 130 SAIS graduates have become ambassadors throughout the world.^[2]

★ Madeleine Albright - former U.S. Secretary of State (attended SAIS, but did not receive degree)

★ Mahamat Ali Adoum - former Foreign Affairs minister, Chad's ambassador to the United Nations

★ Peter F. Allgeier - Deputy U.S. Trade Representative

★ Robert O. Blake, Jr. - U.S. Ambassador to Sri Lanka and the Maldives

★ Wolf Blitzer - CNN news anchor

★ Jeremy Bowen - BBC journalist and presenter

★ Gayleatha B. Brown - U.S. Ambassador to Benin

★ R. Nicholas Burns - U.S. Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs, former U.S. ambassador to NATO and Greece

★ Chung Mong Joon - Korean businessman and politician

★ Doug Carlston - founder of Brøderbund Software (attended SAIS, but did not take degree)

★ James Cason - U.S. Ambassador to Cuba and Paraguay

★ Herman Jay Cohen - U.S. diplomat, former ambassador to various countries in Africa

★ Jean-Maurice Dehousse - former Belgian Minister, former mayor of Liege

★ Thomas Donnelly - Deputy Director of the Project for a New American Century and former executive editor of ''The National Interest''

★ John Caspar Dreier - former U.S. ambassador to the Organization of American States

★ Hermann Eilts - former U.S. Ambassador to Saudi Arabia and Egypt, worked with Egyptian President Anwar el-Sadat throughout the Camp David Accords

★ Jessica Einhorn - current Dean of SAIS, member of the Board of Directors of Time Warner, former director of the Council on Foreign Relations, and a former managing director of the World Bank

★ Peter A. Flaherty - Director Emeritus of McKinsey & Company

★ Robert Stephen Ford - former U.S. ambassador to Algeria

★ Jeffrey Garten - former U.S. Under Secretary of Commerce for International Trade and former Dean of the Yale School of Management

★ Timothy F. Geithner - President and CEO of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York

★ Gabriel Guerra-Mondragón - U.S. Ambassador to Chile

★ April Glaspie - American diplomat, first woman to be appointed an American ambassador to an Arab country, best known as the U.S. ambassador to Iraq in the run-up to the 1991 Gulf War

★ Geir H. Haarde - Prime Minister of Iceland

★ John J. Hamre - President and CEO of the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS), former U.S. Deputy Secretary of Defense

★ John E. Herbst - U.S. Ambassador to Ukraine, Uzbekistan

★ James Howard Holmes - U.S. Ambassador to Latvia

★ Hans Hoogervorst - the Netherlands' Minister of Public Health, former Minister of Finance

★ Tracey Ann Jacobson - U.S. Ambassador to Turkmenistan, Tajikistan

★ Bert Koenders - the Netherlands's Minister of Development Cooperation, member of the Netherlands' Parliament Tweede Kamer

★ Frank Lavin - U.S. Under Secretary of Commerce for International Trade, former U.S. ambassador to Singapore

★ Jim Leach - former U.S. Congressman from Iowa, former Chair of U.S. House of Representatives Banking & Financial Institutions Committee and former Chair of Asia Pacific Subcommittee of the House International Affairs Committee, current faculty at Princeton University

★ Lee Tae-sik - Republic of Korea's Ambassador to the United States

★ Samuel W. Lewis - former U.S. ambassador to Israel and U.S. ambassador at the Camp David Accord talks in 1978

★ Dennis P. Lockhart - President and CEO of the Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta

★ Peter Magowan - owner of the San Francisco Giants and former CEO of Safeway (attended SAIS, but did not take degree)

★ Sir David Manning - Britain's ambassador to the United States

★ John E. McLaughlin - former Deputy Director of Central Intelligence

★ Christopher Meyer - British ambassador to the United States during first Gulf War

★ Marcia Miller - former Vice-Chair and Commissioner, U.S. International Trade Commission

★ Federico Minoli - CEO of Ducati Motor Holding

★ Ana Belen Montes - spy for Cuba working at the Defense Intelligence Agency, arrested in 2001 (did not receive degree)

★ Pat O'Brien - Entertainment Tonight co-host

★ John E. Osborn - Executive VP & General Counsel, Cephalon, Inc., nominated to U.S. Advisory Commission on Public Diplomacy

★ Nicholas Platt - U.S. ambassador to Pakistan, Philippines, Zambia

★ Charles P. Ries - U.S. Ambassador to Greece

★ Marcie Berman Ries - U.S. Ambassador to Albania

★ William A. Reinsch - President, National Foreign Trade Council; former Under Secretary of Commerce for Export Administration

★ Arturo Sarukhán - Mexico's ambassador to the United States

★ Bandar bin Sultan - Saudi Arabia's former ambassador to the United States

★ Lousewies van der Laan - former leader of Democrats 66 in the Tweede Kamer of the Netherlands

★ Wang Guangya - People's Republic of China's Ambassador to the United Nations

★ Clifton R. Wharton - former Deputy Secretary of State

★ Jody Williams - Nobel Peace Prize recipient for her leadership of the International Campaign to Ban Landmines

★ Irving A. Williamson - Commissioner, U.S. International Trade Commission

References

1. Gutner, Tammi L. “The Story of SAIS”. Washington, DC: School of Advanced International Studies, The Johns Hopkins University, 1987.
2. See http://www.sais-jhu.edu/pubaffairs/FactSheet01.pdf

External links

★ SAIS Website

★ SAIS Bologna Center Website

★ Hopkins-Nanjing Center Website

★ SAIS Wharton Joint Degree Program

★ SAIS Review, Journal of International Affairs

★ International Reporting Project

★ BCJournal, Bologna Center Journal of International Affairs