Johns Hopkins SAIS - Definition and Overview

The Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS), located in Washington D.C., is one of the world's leading graduate school devoted to the study of international affairs, economics, diplomacy, and policy research and education. It was founded in 1943 by Paul Nitze and Christian Herter and became part of the Johns Hopkins University in 1950. SAIS 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.

Prominent Past and Present Faculty and Administrators

• Fouad Ajami

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

• Zbigniew Brzezinski, former National Security Advisor to President Carter

• Francis Deng

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

• Grace Goodell

• Christian Herter

• Michael Mandelbaum

• Azar Nafisi

• Paul Nitze, drafter of NSC-68

• Ruth Wedgewood

• Paul Wolfowitz, current deputy Secretary of Defense and prominent neoconservative

Prominent Graduates

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

• Wolf Blitzer, CNN news correspondent

• R. Nicholas Burns, US ambassador to NATO

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

• Ana Bela Montes, Cuban intelligence agent in the CIA caught in 2001

• Jody Williams, Nobel Peace Prize recipient

External Links

SAIS (http://sais-jhu.edu/)