Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies
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| 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. |
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| 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 |
| 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 world's 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.
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[edit] Institution
SAIS 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. Among them are World Bank President and former Dean Paul Wolfowitz, political economy scholar Francis Fukuyama, political scientist and former National Security Advisor Zbigniew Brzezinski and Middle East scholar Fouad Ajami.
SAIS 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 program in Europe that operates under the American 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 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, Western Hemisphere Studies.
Around 250 students graduate from SAIS's 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 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 of 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 must compete have at least a year of law school), 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.
The College of William & Mary examined graduate international relations programs in 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 as being one of the top five programs. SAIS received the most votes, followed by Georgetown (Walsh), Harvard (Kennedy), Tufts (Fletcher), and Columbia (SIPA), respectively.
[edit] History
SAIS was founded in 1943 by Paul 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.
[edit] 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
- 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
[edit] 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, author of Military Misfortunes: The Anatomy of Failure in War
- Francis Deng - former Representative of the UN Secretary-General on Internally Displaced Persons
- 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 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
- 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
- Michael Mandelbaum - professor of American foreign policy
- Robert H. Mundell - Nobel Prize in Economics laureate, 1999
- Azar Nafisi - Muslim feminist and author of Reading Lolita in Tehran
- Paul Nitze - drafter of NSC-68 creating the U.S. Cold War strategy of containment
- Riordan Roett - professor of Latin American studies
- 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 - President, World Bank, former U.S. Deputy Secretary of Defense, former Dean of SAIS
- I. William Zartman - professor of conflict management
[edit] Prominent alumni and former students
- Madeleine Albright - former U.S. Secretary of State (attended SAIS, but did not take degree)
- Peter F. Allgeier - Deputy U.S. Trade Representative
- Wolf Blitzer - CNN news anchor
- Jeremy Bowen - BBC journalist and presenter
- R. Nicholas Burns - U.S. Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs, former U.S. Ambassador to NATO and Greece
- Doug Carlston - Founder of Brøderbund Software (attended SAIS, but did not take degree)
- Thomas Donnelly - Deputy Director of the Project for a New American Century and former executive editor of The National Interest
- 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
- 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
- April Glaspie - American diplomat 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
- Hans Hoogervorst - the Netherlands' Minister of Public Health, former Minister of Finance
- Bert Koenders - Member of the Netherlands' Parliament Tweede Kamer and Social Democrat [PvdA], spokesman for foreign policy
- Franklin Lavin - U.S. Under Secretary of Commerce for International Trade, former U.S. Ambassador to Singapore
- 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 Acting Director of Central Intelligence
- 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
- Pat O'Brien - Entertainment Tonight co-host
- Marcie Berman Ries - U.S. Ambassador to Albania
- William A. Reinsch - President, National Foreign Trade Council; former Under Secretary of Commerce for Export Administration
- 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 - 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
[edit] 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
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