The Foreign Policy Institute, (FPI) of The Johns Hopkins University Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS), was established in 1980 to unite the worlds of scholarship and public affairs in the search for realistic answers to international issues facing the United States and the world. 

The FPI seeks to advance practically-oriented research and discussion about foreign policy. To this end, it organizes research initiatives and study groups, and hosts leaders from around the world as resident or non-resident fellows in fields including international policy, business, journalism and academia who are engaged in addressing vital issues that face our world today. SAIS faculty and students are an integral part of the FPI through their participation in its research projects, lectures and seminars.  In addition, FPI's events provide educational opportunities for those at other Washington area universities and the public at large. FPI is also home to the SAIS student-run journal, The SAIS Review of International Affairs and to the Cultural Conversations program.