The Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies , a division of Johns Hopkins University based in Washington, D.C., is one of the world's leading and most prestigious graduate schools devoted to the study of international affairs, economics, diplomacy, and policy research and education. The SAIS main campus is located on Massachusetts Avenue's Embassy Row, just off Dupont Circle and across from the Brookings Institution and the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, and next to 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, Middle East scholar Fouad Ajami, historian and political economist David Calleo and military historian and former Counselor of the U.S. Department of State Eliot Cohen.
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