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.
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, District of Columbia, USA
Enrollment	550 graduate
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</div> </div> 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 Johns Hopkins University.

1 Institution
2 History
3 SAIS research centers
4 Prominent past and present faculty and administrators
5 Prominent alumni
6 External links

Institution

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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, 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 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, DC 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 Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Stanford Law School, and the Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs of Syracuse University.

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. 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 done very well. Twice, SAIS has 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 the University of Virginia and the University of Maryland, Baltimore.

The College of William & Mary recently completed an intensive study (August 2005) examining graduate international relations programs in the United States, interviewing over 1,000 professionals in the field. One of their 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 their top choice, followed by Georgetown University, Harvard University, Tufts University, and Columbia University, respectively. Source: http://mjtier.people.wm.edu/intlpolitics/teaching/TRIP%20summary%20Aug%2017.pdf

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.