The Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS) is a graduate school of Johns Hopkins University based in Washington, D.C., United States, with campuses in Bologna, Italy, and Nanjing, China. It is consistently ranked one of the top

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for international relations in the world. The school is devoted to the study of international relations, diplomacy,

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, economics, and public policy. The school has hosted world leaders on a regular basis for public debate in international affairs. The Nitze School was established in 1943 by

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NW's Embassy Row, just off Dupont Circle and across from the Brookings Institution and the

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, and next to the

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and the Peterson Institute.

History

The Nitze School of Advanced International Studies was established in 1943 by

and Christian Herter who were seeking new methods of preparing men and women to cope with the international responsibilities that would be thrust upon the United States in the post-World War II world. Nitze feared the diplomatic and economic expertise developed in World War II might get lost if the nation became isolationist. Originally founded as a standalone graduate school, it became a part of Johns Hopkins University in 1950. The founders assembled a faculty of scholars and professionals (often borrowed from other 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. In 1955, the school created the Bologna Center in Italy, the first full-time graduate school located in Europe under an American higher-education system. By 1963, Johns Hopkins SAIS outgrew its first quarters on Florida Avenue and moved to its present location on Massachusetts Avenue. In 1986, the Hopkins–Nanjing Center was created in Nanjing, China, expanding the school's global presence. In January 2019, Johns Hopkins University announced that it had purchased the Newseum building on Pennsylvania Avenue NW and will remodel the building to house SAIS and other Washington, D.C.-based programs. The school is a member of the Association of Professional Schools of International Affairs (APSIA), a group of schools of public policy, public administration, and international studies.

Organization and academic programs

Johns Hopkins SAIS is a global school with campuses on three continents. It has nearly 700 full-time students in Washington, D.C.; 190 full-time students in Bologna, Italy; and about 160 full-time students in Nanjing, China. Of these, 60 percent come from the United States and 37 percent from more than 70 other countries. Around 50% are women and 22% are from U.S. minority groups. SAIS Europe is home to the Bologna Center and 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

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and English, is jointly administered by Johns Hopkins SAIS and Nanjing University. The school offers multidisciplinary instruction leading to the degrees of Master of Arts for early and mid-career professionals, as well as a Doctor of Philosophy program. Approximately 300 students graduate from the Washington, D.C., campus each year from the two-year Master of Arts program in international relations and international economics. Unlike most other international affairs graduate schools that offer professional master's degrees, Johns Hopkins SAIS requires its Master of Arts candidates to be proficient in another language outside their mother tongue and fulfill the International Ecopass, a one-hour capstone oral examination synthesizing and integrating knowledge from the student's regional or functional concentration and international economics. The oral examination and international economics requirements of the Master of Arts curriculum have been the signature aspects of the school's education.

Reputation

A study conducted in 2005 examined graduate international relations programs throughout the United States, interviewing over a thousand professionals in the field, with the results subsequently published in ''

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'' magazine as "

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" rankings. 65 percent of respondents named Johns Hopkins University–SAIS as the best terminal master's program in international relations. SAIS received the most votes, followed by Georgetown University's School of Foreign Service, Harvard University's

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, Tufts University's Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, and the School of International and Public Affairs at Columbia University. The latest edition of the study was produced in 2014, with the master's program at SAIS ranking second globally after the Georgetown School of Foreign Service. SAIS students and alumni have been informally known as the ‘SAIS Mafia’ among international relations circle especially by networks inside the Beltway owing to their presence within the field and close-knit community. Since 1990, SAIS and the Fletcher School have been the only non-law schools in the United States to participate in the Philip C. Jessup International Law Moot Court Competition. Competing against full-time law students, SAIS generalists 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 schools such as Georgetown University Law Center and the

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. SAIS students have successfully competed in the Sustainable Innovation Summit Challenge hosted by Arizona State University's Thunderbird School of Global Management. Two different SAIS teams won first place in both 2007 and 2008. A joint team from SAIS and the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania received second place in the first "Global Challenge" competition, a first-of-its-kind competition that challenged teams of MBA and other graduate students to develop a public–private venture to support development and the tourism industry in Asia. The competition was organized in 2010 by the University of Maryland's

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and the U.S. Agency for International Development. Notable economists affiliated with the school include former World Bank Chief Economist Anne Krueger, and former Fulbright Chair in Economics at Harvard University Michael D. Plummer. Many influential political scientists are also affiliated with the school, including

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winning historian Anne Applebaum, United States Institute of Peace Board Member

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, member of the International Board of Advisors at Oxford University

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Vali R. Nasr, former Counselor of the United States Department of State

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at the

Vikram Nehru, former Chairperson of the United Nations Human Rights Council Advisory Committee Obiora Okafor, and former MIT Frank Stanton Chair in Nuclear Security Policy Studies

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Annual themes

From 2005 to 2012, Johns Hopkins SAIS dedicated a substantive theme for each academic year in order to encourage its students, faculty, academic programs, policy centers, and alumni to examine the role of the particular theme within international affairs. These specific themes provided opportunities for the school to review scholarship and exchange views through special lectures, conferences, and guest speakers. The school hosted public events during the following themes of Energy (2005–06), China (2006–07), Elections and Foreign Policy (2007–08), Year of Water (2008–09), Religion (2009–10), Demography (2010–11), and Agriculture (2011–12) and enhanced its fundraising with high-profile public events such as the lecture delivered by then–vice president of BP,

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, during the Year of Energy in 2005.

Child Protection Project

In June 2009, The Protection Project at SAIS partnered with the Koons Family Institute of the International Centre for Missing & Exploited Children (ICMEC), creating the Child Protection Project, to draft a model law focusing on the issues of child protection; in particular: "neglect, abuse, maltreatment, and exploitation". The primary objectives of the Child Protection Project are to "research existing child protection laws in the 193 member states of the United Nations (UN); convene a series of regional expert working group meetings to establish a common definition for 'child protection'; create a database of national legislation and case law on child protection issues from around the world; and draft, publish, and globally disseminate model child protection legislation". The drafting process included six expert group meetings, held in Singapore, Egypt, Costa Rica, Spain, Turkey, and the U.S. The final version of the Child Protection Model Law was published in January 2013. It was presented to the members of the UN Committee on the Rights of the Child during its 62nd Session in Geneva, Switzerland, in January 2013. It was also presented before the 129th Assembly of the

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(IPU) in Geneva in October 2013. Accompanying the Child Protection Model Law, ICMEC and The Protection Project published a companion "100 Best Practices in Child Protection" guide in 2013.

Research centers

* JHU Foreign Policy Institute * Alperovitch Institute for Cybersecurity Studies * Bologna Institute for Policy Research (Italy) * Center for Canadian Studies * Central Asia-Caucasus Institute * Silk Road Studies Program * Center For Constitutional Studies And Democratic Development (Italy) * Center for Displacement Studies * Center for International Business and Public Policy * Center for Strategic Education * Center on Politics and Foreign Relations * China-Africa Research Initiative * Cultural Conversations * The Edwin O. Reischauer Center for East Asian Studies * Hopkins-Nanjing Research Center (China) * Grassroots China Initiative * Institute for International Research (China) * International Reporting Project * Philip Merrill Center for Strategic Studies * The Protection Project * Public-Private Partnerships Initiative * Bernard L. Schwartz Forum on Constructive Capitalism * SME Institute * Swiss Foundation for World Affairs * Global Energy and Environment Initiative * Global Health and Foreign Policy Initiative

Publications

In addition to the different books and periodicals edited by SAIS programs or research centers, several school-wide publications are to be mentioned: * '' SAIS Review'' – A journal on leading contemporary issues of world affairs, founded in 1956 * ''SAIS Observer'' – A student-written, student-run newspaper founded in 2002, the official student newspaper of the global SAIS community * ''SAIS Reports'' – A newsletter that highlights new faculty, research institutes, academic programs, student and alumni accomplishments, and events at the school, published bimonthly from September through May * ''SAIS Europe Journal of Global Affairs'' (formally the '' Bologna Center Journal of International Affairs'') – A student-run journal on scholarly contributions to international relations, published online and annually as a print version * ''Centerpiece'' – The alumni newsletter of the Nanjing Center * ''Working Paper Series'' – A series of papers managed by the PhD students

Notable alumni

Johns Hopkins SAIS has nearly 17,000 alumni working around the world in approximately 140 countries. Over 130 SAIS graduates have become ambassadors for various countries. *

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's ambassador to the United Nations * Ebenezer Akuete – former Ghanaian diplomat * Madeleine Albright – former U.S. Secretary of State (attended SAIS, but did not earn degree) * Peter F. Allgeier – deputy

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(2001–09) and former acting U.S. Trade Representative *

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, SAIS '81 *

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* Hermann Eilts – former U.S. Ambassador to Saudi Arabia and Egypt, worked with Egyptian president Anwar el-Sadat throughout the

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, and a former managing director of the World Bank *

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, Kyrgyzstan, Central Asia and Russia expert *

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talks in 1978 * Dennis P. Lockhart – president and CEO of the Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta *

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–

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– bestselling author of ''Terror Incorporated'' and ''Insurgent Iraq''. She is an expert on financing of terrorism and advises several governments on counter-terrorism * Pat O'Brien – television personality * John E. Osborn – former commissioner, U.S. Advisory Commission on Public Diplomacy; affiliate faculty in law and international studies, University of Washington; senior executive with life sciences companies

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– Africa bureau chief at '' The Washington Post'', former Afghanistan bureau chief (2012–14) * Bandar bin Sultan – Saudi Arabia's former ambassador to the United States *

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– advisor to the Department of Energy, author *

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– Under Secretary of Defense for Intelligence, Department of Defense * Joris Voorhoeve – Dutch politician, diplomat and political scientist, Minister of Defence (1994–98) *

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– U.S. Ambassador to Tunisia (2012–2015), U.S. Consul General in Jerusalem (2005–2009) * Wang Guangya – People's Republic of China's Ambassador and Permanent Representative to the United Nations * Juleanna Glover Weiss – political consultant and lobbyist *

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– former

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* Jody Williams – Nobel Peace Prize recipient for her leadership of the International Campaign to Ban Landmines * Lois Wolk – member of the

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Past and present faculty

* Fouad Ajami – professor of Middle Eastern studies *

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– former U.S. Ambassador to Egypt, Assistant Secretary of State for the Near East and Africa, and president, Middle East Institute; founded SAIS Foreign Policy Institute * Peter Bergen – CNN terrorism analyst and author of ''Holy War, Inc'' * Zbigniew Brzezinski – former

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to President Jimmy Carter * Edward B. Burling – partner of the law firm

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– associate editor, The Washington Post; former SAIS journalist-in-residence for the

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, author of ''Imperial Life in the Emerald City: Inside Iraq's Green Zone'' *

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model *

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– former representative of the UN Secretary-General on Internally Displaced Persons *

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– former U.S. Under Secretary of Defense for Policy, former U.S. Ambassador to Finland and Turkey, visiting scholar at the Philip Merrill Center for Strategic Studies and Distinguished Fellow at the Center for Strategic and Budgetary Assessments *

– former dean of SAIS, member of the Board of Directors of Time Warner, former director of the

, and a former managing director of the World Bank * Francis Fukuyama – former director of the SAIS International Development program, and author of '' The End of History and the Last Man'' * Grace Goodell – professor of international development *

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– George H. W. Bush Assistant Professor of International Relations * Christian Herter – former U.S. Secretary of State and Governor of Massachusetts *

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- assistant secretary of defense for strategy, plans, and capabilities * Majid Khadduri – professor of Islamic law and Middle East specialist *

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– former director of the SAIS Bologna Center, former president of the University of Minnesota system *

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– Chung Ju Yung Professor of International Economics and Business *

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– former American co-director of the Hopkins–Nanjing Center. *

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and World Bank Chief Economist; former president,

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– former President of

, Kyrgyzstan, Central Asia and Russia expert. *

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– former director of the SAIS Bologna Center, former U.S.

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to Albania, and former assistant secretary for international affairs at the U.S. Department of Homeland Security *

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– Nobel Prize in Economics laureate, 1999 *

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– former U.S. Foreign Service Officer and SAIS part-time faculty member who was arrested in 2009 on charges of 30 years of espionage on behalf of Cuba * Azar Nafisi – Iranian-American academic and author of '' Reading Lolita in Tehran'' and "

Things I've Been Silent About Things or The Things may refer to: Music * ''Things'' (album), by Uri Caine and Paolo Fresu, 2006 * "Things" (Bobby Darin song), 1962; covered by Ronnie Dove, 1975 * "Things", a song by Joe Walsh from '' There Goes the Neighborhood'', 1981 * "Thi ...

" *

– drafter of

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modifying the U.S.

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strategy of containment from a primarily economic and diplomatic strategy to one based more fully on military confrontation *

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– journalist, Korea expert *

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– third dean of SAIS, former director of the American Foreign Policy program and co-director of the Security Studies program, and former member of the U.S. Secretary of State's Policy Planning Council from 1983 to 1985. *

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– former U.S. Secretary of the Treasury, distinguished visiting fellow at the Bernard Schwartz Forum on Constructive Capitalism *

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– professor of Latin American studies *

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– former Edward B. Burling Professor of International Law and Organization at SAIS and former judge and president of the International Court of Justice, currently leading international arbitrator and counsel in Washington, D.C. * András Simonyi – former ambassador of Hungary to the United States * Robert Skidelsky – economist, biographer of John Maynard Keynes *

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– former journalist-in-residence,

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winner *

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– former professor of European studies, current head of the Transatlantic Academy at the German Marshall Fund * Shirin R. Tahir-Kheli – former research professor, former

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and

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senior director for democracy, human rights and international operations *

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(Visiting Scholar) – investigative journalist who interviewed

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and Kang Kek Iew *

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– director of the Center of Canadian Studies, author, Secretary/Advisor to Canadian Prime Minister,

Louis St. Laurent Louis Stephen St. Laurent (''Saint-Laurent'' or ''St-Laurent'' in French, baptized Louis-Étienne St-Laurent; February 1, 1882 – July 25, 1973) was a Canadian lawyer and politician who served as the 12th prime minister of Canada from 19 ...

* Robert W. Tucker – former professor of American foreign policy, and co-author of ''The Imperial Temptation: The New World Order and America's Purpose'' * David Unger – journalist, member of ''The New York Times'' editorial board, author of ''The Emergency State: America's Pursuit of Absolute Security at All Costs'' *

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– Edward B. Burling Professor of International Law and Diplomacy, and Director of the Program in International Law and Organizations; U.S. member of the United Nations Human Rights Committee * Paul Wolfowitz – former president of the World Bank, former U.S. Deputy

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, former dean of SAIS * I. William Zartman – former professor and director of the SAIS Conflict Management program * Alejandro Toledo (visiting scholar) – former president of Peru *

Yascha Mounk Yascha Benjamin Mounk (born 10 June 1982) is a German-born American political scientist. , he is currently Associate Professor of the Practice of International Affairs at Johns Hopkins University's School of Advanced International Studies in Wash ...

— associate professor of the Practice, known for work on populism

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