The Foreign Policy Institute sponsors programs that bring to FPI individuals from the fields of diplomacy, business, journalism, academia, politics, and government. These programs reinforce SAIS’s focus on the study of international relations through the linking of the worlds of business, government, environment and academia. Individual associates in FPI research, write, participate in seminars and study groups, and teach courses at SAIS. Though the subject areas of the programs and individual projects vary, they have in common their benefit to the educational experience of SAIS students and contributions to the scholarship of the SAIS community. If you're interested in becoming a Visiting Fellow or Scholar at FPI, see below for application procedures. Current FPI Fellows, Scholars, and Associates Dean Jessica Einhorn
Chair of the Foreign Policy Institute
Dean of SAIS Before coming to SAIS in June 2002, Dean Einhorn served as a consultant in the Washington office of Clark & Weinstock, a firm that specializes in strategic communication and public affairs consulting. In August 1999, Dr. Einhorn concluded her career of nearly 20 years of service with the World Bank. In the wake of the Asian financial crisis, from 1998 to 1999, she spent a year as a visiting fellow at the International Monetary Fund. From 1996 to 1998, she was managing director of the World Bank, where she was in charge of the financial management of the World Bank and its activities in resource mobilization from the public and private sectors. She assumed this position after serving as the vice president and treasurer of the bank, a position she held since 1992. Dean Einhorn is author of Expropriation Politics. Dean Einhorn received her M.A. in international relations from SAIS and her Ph.D. in politics from Princeton University. Esther Brimmer, Ph.D.
Deputy Director of the Center for Transatlantic Relations Among her former posts, Dr. Brimmer was a member of the Office of Policy Planning and Special Assistant to the Under Secretary for Political Affairs, US Department of State. She served on a U.S. Delegation to the UN Commission on Human Rights. She has also been a Senior Associate with the Carnegie Commission on Preventing Deadly Conflict, a professor, a research fellow, and a Legislative Analyst with the Democratic Study Group, U.S. House of Representatives. Dr. Brimmer received her Ph.D. in international relations from the Oxford University. Zbigniew Brzezinski, Ph.D.
Professor of American Foreign Policy National Security Advisor to President Carter, Zbigniew Brzezinski also served as a member of the President's Foreign Intelligence Advisory Board. A 1981 recipient of the Presidential Medal of Freedom, he is a counselor-in-residence at the Center for Strategic and International Studies and a trustee of the Trilateral Commission. A past faculty member at Columbia and Harvard Universities. He serves as the Moderator of FPI's Current Issues series. He is the author of Out of Control (1993), The Grand Failure (1989), Game Plan (1986), Power and Principle (1983), and The Choice: Global Domination or Global Leadership (2004). Dr. Brzezinski received his Ph.D. in government from Harvard University. Charles Gati, Ph.D.
Fellow and Senior Adjunct Professor in European Studies Formerly a senior advisor with the policy planning staff of the U.S. Department of State and professor at Union College and Columbia University, Dr. Gati has traveled extensively in Russia, Central and Eastern Europe. He is the author of Hungary and the Soviet Bloc (1986), The Bloc that Failed (1990), and numerous articles in publications including Foreign Affairs and The New York Times. A study titled If not Democracy, What? was published in 1997. Dr. Gati received his Ph.D. in International Relations from Indiana University. Daniel Hamilton, Ph.D.
Research Professor; Director of the Center for Transatlantic Relations; and Executive Director of the American Consortium on EU Studies (ACES) Dr. Hamilton most recently served as Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for European Affairs and held various other State Department posts. Previous to government service, he was Senior Associate on European-American relations at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. He is the author of Beyond Bonn: America and the Berlin Republic (1994), After the Revolution (1990), and numerous book and periodical articles. Daniel Barstow Magraw
Fellow Professor Magraw was President and Chief Executive Officer of CIEL from January 2002 to September 2010. From 1992-2001, he was Director of the International Environmental Law Office at the U.S. EPA. Professor Magraw teaches international environmental law and policy at SAIS. From 1983-92, he was Professor of Law at the University of Colorado, where he was the faculty initiator of the Colorado Journal of International Environmental Law & Policy. He was a Visiting Scientist at the National Center for Atmospheric Research in 1989. Professor Magraw has lectured extensively in the United States and abroad on a wide variety of international law topics, and he has written books and articles on many international law subjects, including international environmental law, women’s human rights, the Iran-US Claims Tribunal, international trade and the environment, sustainable development, accountability in international dispute settlement, and philosophy and environmental protection. Mr. Magraw has a J.D. degree from the University of California, Berkeley (1976), where he was Editor-in-Chief of the California Law Review and a founder of the Berkeley Law Foundation (an NGO that funds projects helping under-privileged and under-represented people and communities). He has a B.A. with high honors in Economics from Harvard University (1968). James Mann
Author-in-Residence James Mann is a former Washington correspondent, foreign-policy columnist and Beijing bureau chief for the Los Angeles Times, where he worked from 1978 to 2001. He is the author of the recently-released Rise of the Vulcans: The History of Bush’s War Cabinet (Viking and Penguin, 2004). He has also written two other books, both about America and China: Beijing Jeep (1989, 1996) and About Face: A History of America’s Curious Relations with China From Nixon to Clinton (1999). The latter book won the New York Public Library’s Helen Bernstein Award for book of the year by a journalist, and its Japanese edition was awarded the Asia-Pacific Prize for best book about Asia. Before joining the Times, Mann also worked for the New Haven Journal-Courier, Washington Post, Philadelphia Inquirer and Baltimore Sun. His reporting was awarded Georgetown University’s Edward Weintal Prize in 1999 for distinguished coverage of international affairs, and he was also twice the winner of the Edwin M. Hood Award (1993, 1999) for diplomatic reporting. Mann is also a commentator for National Public Radio’s “All Things Considered” and has written for The Atlantic, The New Republic, and various other magazines and newspapers. Mohamed Mattar
Co-director of the Protection Project Dr. Mattar is also an adjunct professor of law at Georgetown University Law Center, American University, Washington College of Law, and Johns Hopkins University Paul Nitze School of Advanced International Studies, where he teaches various courses on Comparative and International law. Dr. Mattar's extensive experience and knowledge in the field of international law makes him an authority on the legal and legislative aspects associated with trafficking in persons, especially women and children. Dr. Mattar has written at length on the Trafficking Victims Protection Act of 2000 and the 2000 United Nations Protocol to Prevent, Suppress, and Punish Trafficking in Persons, especially Women and Children. Dr. Mattar received his title Doctor of Juridical Sciences in 1986, and Master of Law with Distinction in 1983 from Tulane University School of Law. Stephen Morris, Ph.D.
Fellow Dr. Morris came to FPI after a one-year period as an associate research scholar at the East Asian Institute of Columbia University, preceded by seven years as a research associate and visiting scholar at Harvard University. He is the author of numerous journal and magazine articles on Vietnam and Cambodia and a book titled Why Vietnam Invaded Cambodia: Political Culture and the Causes of War (Stanford University Press, 1999). Dr. Morris is currently writing a book on comparative historical perspectives on terrorism. Dr. Morris received his Ph.D. in political science from Columbia University. Steven Muller, Ph.D.
Fellow Dr. Muller is President emeritus of The Johns Hopkins University; co-chairman of the American Institute for Contemporary German Studies, a trustee of the German Marshall Fund of the United States and chair of the Education Committee of the Atlantic Council. He is also a member of the American Association of Rhodes Scholars, the Council on Foreign Relations and the International Institute for Strategic Studies. Currently he serves as a distinguished professorial lecturer at SAIS. He is the editor of From Occupation to Cooperation (1992). Dr. Muller received his doctorate in government from Cornell University. Joshua Muravchik, Ph.D.
Fellow Dr. Joshua Muravchik is a Fellow at the Foreign Policy Institute of the Johns Hopkins University School for Advanced International Studies. His most recent book is The Next Founders: Voices of Democracy in the Middle East. He is the author of eight previous books and has published more than 300 articles on politics and international affairs. Dr. Muravchik received his Ph.D. in International Relations from Georgetown University. He serves on the editorial boards of World Affairs, Journal of Democracy and the Journal of International Security Affairs. Azar Nafisi, Ph.D.
Visiting Fellow and Director of Cultural Conversations Dr. Nafisi was an assistant professor in the Department of English at the University of Tehran from 1979-1982 and later served for seven years as an associate professor at Tabatabaii University, Department of English. In 1994, through a fellowship from Oxford University, Dr. Nafisi gave tutorials on women and cultural change and delivered a series of lectures on post revolutionary Iranian cinema and "The Perception of Western Literature in Persia." She is the author of the bestseller Reading Lolita in Tehran (Random House, 2003) and of Anti-Terra: A Critical Study of Vladimir Nabokov's Novels (1994), as well as numerous articles on the relation between cultures, and culture and reality. Dr. Nafisi received her Ph.D. in philosophy, English and American literature from Oklahoma University. Don Oberdorfer
Journalist-in-Residence Until his retirement from The Washington Post in 1993, Don Oberdorfer had been the newspaper's diplomatic correspondent for 17 years. Earlier, he covered the White House and Northeast Asia for The Post and reported for The Charlotte Observer, The Saturday Evening Post, and Knight Newspapers. The winner of several awards for diplomatic reporting, Oberdorfer is the author of Tet! (1971), The Two Koreas (1997), The Turn: From the Cold War to a New Era (1998), and most recent Senator Mansfield: The Extraordinary Life of a Great American Statesman and Diplomat (2003). The Japanese edition of The Two Koreas won the 10th annual Asia-Pacific Book Prize in Tokyo for the best book in the field. He is currently writing a book about the relations between North Korea, South Korea, and the major outside powers since 1972. David Satter
Fellow Mr. Satter is a former Moscow correspondent for the London Financial Times, a special correspondent of the Wall Street Journal, and a staff writer for Readers Digest. Mr. Satter is author of Age of Delirium: The Decline and Fall of the Soviet Union (1996) and Darkness at Dawn: Russia's Fate in the Age of Reform (2003). S. Frederick Starr, Ph.D.
Chairman of the Central Asia-Caucasus Institute Dr. Starr is a former president of Oberlin College and founding director of the Kennan Institute for Advanced Russian Studies at the Woodrow Wilson Center for International Scholars. Dr. Starr has written or edited 18 books and more than 130 articles on Russian and Eurasian affairs. His current activities include planning work for a new institution of higher education to be established by the Aga Khan in Tajikistan. Dr. Starr received his Ph.D. in history from Princeton University. Application Procedure FPI offers two basic types of affiliation: visiting fellow (resident status) and visiting scholar (nonresident). FPI and each individual involved establish an agreement on specific responsibilities and the time period of the affiliation. All fellows and scholars at FPI must have independent financial support obtained through foundation grants, academic institutions, or other sources. Privileges for all affiliates include access to the SAIS library, consultation with faculty members who may be interested in their research, and participation in the School’s many special activities. Applications for visiting fellow or scholar status should include a letter of request, curriculum vitae, and project description or research interest. Applications are reviewed when submitted throughout the year. Submit in hard copy or electronically to the address below. Notification is usually made within six weeks of receipt of all necessary paperwork. For more information on the Fellows Program or to apply, please contact Ms. Christine Kunkel, Program Administrator: Foreign Policy Institute
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