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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 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

The Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS), based in Washington, D.C., is one of the leading and most prestigious 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.

Institution

SAIS in Washington, D.C.

The SAIS main campus is located on Massachusetts Avenue's Embassy Row, just off of Dupont Circle and near 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 courses in both Chinese and English, 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 study conducted by the Institute for the Theory and Practice of International Relations [1] at the College of William & Mary 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). In 2007, Foreign Policy magazine produced the same study, and although SAIS stayed as one of the top-ranked programs, it moved to second position as Georgetown (Walsh) received the most votes.

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 (often borrowed from local universities) 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 departments 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

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]


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/PDF/Fact%20Sheet_7_07.pdf
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