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1 History  





2 Organization and academic programs  





3 Reputation  





4 Annual themes  





5 Child Protection Project  





6 Research centers  





7 Publications  





8 Notable alumni  





9 Past and present faculty  





10 See also  





11 References  





12 Further reading  





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Coordinates: 38°5335N 77°0109W / 38.8931203°N 77.0192078°W / 38.8931203; -77.0192078
 

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The Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies

Other name

SAIS
TypePrivate graduate school
Established1943 (1943)

Parent institution

Johns Hopkins University

Academic affiliation

APSIA
DeanJames Steinberg
Postgraduates950
Location
  • Bologna, Italy
  • Nanjing, China

  • 38°53′35N 77°01′09W / 38.8931203°N 77.0192078°W / 38.8931203; -77.0192078
    Websitesais.jhu.edu

    The Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS) is a graduate schoolofJohns Hopkins University based in Washington, D.C. with campuses in Bologna, Italy and Nanjing, China.

    The school is devoted to the study of international relations, diplomacy, national security, 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 Paul H. Nitze 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.[1] Originally founded as a standalone graduate school, it became a part of Johns Hopkins University in 1950.[2]

    The SAIS Washington, D.C. campus is located in the 420,000-square-foot 555 Pennsylvania Avenue building, which was purchased by the university in 2019 and has undergone extensive renovation.[3] Previously, the school was based on Embassy RowatMassachusetts Avenue.

    History[edit]

    The Nitze School of Advanced International Studies was established in 1943 by Paul H. Nitze 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.[1] Originally founded as a standalone graduate school, it became a part of Johns Hopkins University in 1950.[2]

    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.[4]

    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 a 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 would remodel the building to house SAIS and other Washington, D.C.-based programs.[5]

    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.[6]

    Organization and academic programs[edit]

    Campus building on Massachusetts Avenue NW, Washington, D.C.

    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.[7] 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 Chinese and English, is jointly administered by Johns Hopkins SAIS and Nanjing University.[8]

    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[9] 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.[10] The oral examination and international economics requirements of the Master of Arts curriculum have been the signature aspects of the school's education.

    Reputation[edit]

    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 Foreign Policy magazine as "Inside the Ivory Tower" 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 John F. Kennedy School of Government, 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.[11]

    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 University of Virginia School of Law.

    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.[12][13]

    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 Robert H. Smith School of Business and the U.S. Agency for International Development.[14]

    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 Pulitzer-prize winning historian Anne Applebaum, United States Institute of Peace Board Member Eric Edelman, member of the International Board of Advisors at Oxford University Blavatnik School of Government Vali R. Nasr, former Counselor of the United States Department of State Eliot Cohen, former Chair in Southeast Asian Studies at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace 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 Francis J. Gavin.

    Annual themes[edit]

    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[15] (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, Nick Butler, during the Year of Energy in 2005.[16]

    Child Protection Project[edit]

    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".[17] 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".[18]

    The drafting process included six expert group meetings, held in Singapore, Egypt, Costa Rica, Spain, Turkey, and the U.S.[17] 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.[17][19] It was also presented before the 129th Assembly of the Inter-Parliamentary Union (IPU) in Geneva in October 2013.[17][20][21] Accompanying the Child Protection Model Law, ICMEC and The Protection Project published a companion "100 Best Practices in Child Protection" guide in 2013.[22]

    Research centers[edit]

    Publications[edit]

    In addition to the different books and periodicals edited by SAIS programs or research centers, several school-wide publications are to be mentioned:

    Notable alumni[edit]

    Johns Hopkins SAIS has nearly 17,000 alumni working around the world in approximately 140 countries.[15] Over 130 SAIS graduates have become ambassadors for various countries.[25]

    Past and present faculty[edit]

    See also[edit]

    References[edit]

    1. ^ a b Cavanaugh Simpson, Joanne (April 2000). "Pioneers of Advocacy: Not Just a Cold Warrior". Johns Hopkins Magazine. Baltimore, Maryland. OCLC 644322652. Retrieved 25 August 2018.
  • ^ a b "The Johns Hopkins Gazette: October 21, 2002". pages.jh.edu. Retrieved 12 May 2020.
  • ^ "555 Pennsylvania Avenue". www.jhfre.jhu.edu. Retrieved 2 April 2023.
  • ^ Gutner, Tammi L. The Story of SAIS. Washington, D.C.: School of Advanced International Studies, The Johns Hopkins University, 1987.
  • ^ "Newseum to Move as Johns Hopkins Announces Building Purchase".
  • ^ "MEMBER DIRECTORY". APSIA. 11 March 2016. Retrieved 17 February 2023.
  • ^ "SAIS Prepare to Lead Brochure, released Summer 2009" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 14 October 2009. Retrieved 11 August 2009.
  • ^ See Norton Wheeler, Role of American NGOs in China's Modernization: Invited Influence (Routledge, 2014) online review, on the history of the Nanjing Center
  • ^ "Master of Arts in International Relations (MAIR) | Johns Hopkins SAIS". 23 July 2020.
  • ^ "Johns Hopkins SAIS Academics | MA Program | Requirements". www.sais-jhu.edu. Retrieved 10 August 2011.
  • ^ Ma, Damien (21 April 2011). "The Surprising Similarities Between Beijing and DC's Elites". The Atlantic. Retrieved 23 March 2022.
  • ^ "Thunderbird Names Sustainable Innovation Summit Winners – Press Releases on". csrwire.com. 13 November 2007. Retrieved 10 August 2011.
  • ^ "Sustainable Innovation Summit winners announced – Thunderbird School of Global Management". www.thunderbird.edu. Retrieved 10 August 2011.
  • ^ "Robert H. Smith School of Business – University of Maryland, College Park". www.rhsmith.umd.edu. 27 April 2010. Retrieved 10 August 2011.
  • ^ a b c "Johns Hopkins SAIS | Year of Religion". Sais-jhu.edu. Archived from the original on 2 March 2012. Retrieved 10 August 2011.
  • ^ "Johns Hopkins SAIS | Press Room | SAIS Reports". www.sais-jhu.edu. Archived from the original on 2 March 2012. Retrieved 10 August 2011.
  • ^ a b c d "Drafting Human Rights Legislation Expert Group". The Protection Project.
  • ^ Katai de Mello Dantas (August 1, 2011) "Protecting Children from Exploitation: Discussions on Creating a Model Law and a Parliamentary Guide" Archived 2014-12-05 at the Wayback Machine, Peace & Collaborative Development Network
  • ^ "Speeches". The Protection Project.
  • ^ "Panel Discussion (Standing Committee on Democracy and Human Rights) (Geneva, 7–9 October 2013); The Role of Parliaments in Protecting the Rights of Children, in Particular Unaccompanied Migrant Children, and in Preventing their Exploitation in Situations of War and Conflict", Inter-Parliamentary Union
  • ^ "129th IPU Assembly; Overview of Main Events and Decisions (Geneva, 7–9 October 2013)", Inter-Parliamentary Union
  • ^ 100 Best Practices in Child Protection. Vol. 3. 2013. {{cite book}}: |work= ignored (help)
  • ^ "The SAIS Observer". The SAIS Observer.
  • ^ "SAIS Perspectives". SAIS Perspectives. Retrieved 27 April 2023.
  • ^ "Fact Sheet" (PDF). www.sais-jhu.edu. Archived from the original (PDF) on 4 October 2007.
  • ^ "U.S. Embassy press release". Archived from the original on 7 May 2009. Retrieved 11 August 2009.
  • ^ Department Of State. The Office of Electronic Information, Bureau of Public Affairs. "Herbst, John E." 2001-2009.state.gov.
  • ^ Popkin, Jim. Ana Montes did much harm spying for Cuba. Chances are, you haven't heard of her. Washington Post Magazine, April 18, 2013.
  • ^ "Biography of Ambassador WANG Guangya". Fmprc.gov.cn. 10 November 2003. Retrieved 10 August 2011.
  • ^ "Bill Grueskin | Columbia Journalism School". journalism.columbia.edu. Retrieved 23 June 2023.
  • ^ "Osgood Center for International Studies". Osgoodcenter.org. Retrieved 10 August 2011.
  • Further reading[edit]

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