The Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS), based in Washington D.C., is one of the world's leading graduate schools devoted to the study of international affairs, economics, diplomacy, and policy research and education.

Institution

SAIS is located on Massachussetts Avenue, NW (a.k.a., Embassy Row) in Washington, DC, just off of Dupont Circle, and a stone's throw away from The Brookings Institution, the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, and the Institute for International Economics . The school is regarded as a major center of political debate as it served as a base for a number of prominent neoconservatives. Among them are Deputy Defense Secretary and former Dean Paul Wolfowitz, political economy scholar Francis Fukuyama, political scientist Zbigniew Brzezinski and middle east scholar Fouad Ajami.

SAIS has nearly 550 full-time students in Washington, DC, 180 full-time students in Bologna, Italy and about 20 full-time students in Nanjing, China. Of these, 60% come from the United States, 40% from more than 66 other countries. Around 50% are women and 22% are U.S. Minority groups. Courses are taught in over 14 research departments, including International Economics, International Relations, Global Theory & History, International Law, Strategic Studies , Conflict Management , Energy, Environment Science & Technology, International Development Program, 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, Western Hemisphere Studies.

Around 250 students graduate from SAIS's Washington, DC campus each year from the two-year Master of Arts program in international relations and international economics.

SAIS is considered to be one of the top academic institutions in the United States for international studies. It has satellite campuses in Bologna, Italy and Nanjing, China. Since 1990, SAIS has been one of only two non-law schools in the United States to participate in the prestigious Philip C. Jessup International Law Moot Court Competition.

History

It was founded in 1943 by Paul Nitze and Christian Herter and became part of the Johns Hopkins University in 1950.

SAIS Research Centers

• Foreign Policy Institute

• Central Asia-Caucasus Institute

• Center for Displacement Studies

• Center for International Business and Public Policy

• Center for Strategic Education

• Center for Transatlantic Relations

• The Dialogue Project

• Hopkins-Nanjing Research Center

• International Energy and Environment Program (IEEP)

• International Reporting Project Johns Hopkins University SAIS
• 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

Prominent Past and Present Faculty and Administrators

• Fouad Ajami, Middle East expert

• Peter Bergen , CNN terrorism analyst and author of Holy War, Inc

• Zbigniew Brzezinski, former National Security Advisor to President Carter

• Eliot A. Cohen, author of Military Misfortunes: The Anatomy of Failure in War

• Francis Deng , Representative of the UN Secretary-General on Internally Displaced Persons

• Jessica Einhorn, current dean of SAIS; former managing VP of The World Bank and a director of the Council of Foreign Relations.

• Francis Fukuyama, political scientist and author of The End of History

• Grace Goodell

• Christian Herter

• Michael Mandelbaum

• Azar Nafisi, Muslim feminist and author of Reading Lolita in Tehran

• Paul Nitze, drafter of NSC-68 creating the US Cold War strategy of containment

• Ruth Wedgewood , international law expert

• Paul Wolfowitz - president, World Bank, former United States Deputy Secretary of Defense, former Dean of SAIS

• I. William Zartman, professor of conflict management

Prominent Graduates

• Madeleine Albright, former U.S. Secretary of State

• Wolf Blitzer, CNN news anchor

• R. Nicholas Burns , Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs, former United States' Ambassador to NATO

• Thomas Donnelly, Deputy director of PNAC and former executive editor of The National Interest

• Jessica Einhorn, current dean of SAIS and former Managing Director of the World Bank

• Sir David Manning - Britain's Ambassador to the United States

• John E. McLaughlin, former Acting Director of Central Intelligence

• Ana Belen Montes , spy for Cuba working at the Defense Intelligence Agency, arrested in 2001

• Pat O'Brien, sports commentator

• Umberto Vattani , Italy's Ambassador to the European Union

• Guangya Wang , China's Ambassador to the United Nations

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

External Links

SAIS Website