Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies

Prominent past and present faculty and administrators

• Fouad Ajami - professor of Middle Eastern studies and director of the Council on Foreign Relations
• Peter Bergen - CNN terrorism analyst and author of Holy War, Inc
• Zbigniew Brzezinski - former National Security Advisor to President Carter
• Eliot A. Cohen - professor of strategic studies, author of Military Misfortunes: The Anatomy of Failure in War
• Francis Deng - former Representative of the UN Secretary-General on Internally Displaced Persons
• Jessica Einhorn - current Dean of SAIS, member of the Board of Directors, Time Warner, director of the Council on Foreign Relations, and former managing VP of the World Bank
• Francis Fukuyama - professor of international political economy and author of The End of History
• Grace Goodell - professor of international development
• Christian Herter - former U.S. Secretary of State and Governor of Massachusetts
• Marisa Lino - current Director of the SAIS Bologna Center, former U.S. Ambassador to Albania
• Michael Mandelbaum - professor of American foreign policy
• Robert H. Mundell - Nobel Prize in Economics, 1999
• Azar Nafisi - Muslim feminist and author of Reading Lolita in Tehran
• Paul Nitze - drafter of NSC-68 creating the U.S. Cold War strategy of containment
• Cordwainer Smith - former professor of Asiatic Studies, best known as a science fiction author
• Ruth Wedgewood - professor of international law
• Paul Wolfowitz - President, World Bank, former U.S. Deputy Secretary of Defense, former Dean of SAIS
• I. William Zartman - professor of conflict management