The Foreign Policy Institute hosts FPI leaders in such fields as international policy, business, journalism and academia who are engaged addressing vital issues that face our world today. FPI resident and non-resident fellows conduct research, write and participate in seminars and study groups. They may also engage in research collaborations with SAIS faculty and students and teach courses at SAIS. Though the subject areas of their programs and individual projects vary, fellows share a commitment to the FPI's mission of advancing practically-oriented research and discussion about foreign policy. As members of the SAIS community, FPI fellows play a key role in contributing to scholarship at SAIS and to the educational experience of SAIS students.
FPI fellows may be hosted by SAIS for one to three year renewable terms. All fellows must be engaged actively in research on funded projects in the area of foreign policy. For more information on the Fellows Program, please contact :
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Leila Golestaneh Austin is Professorial Lecturer in Global Theory and History and Middle East Studies at Johns Hopkins University's Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS) where she also directs the Cultural Conversations project at the Foreign Policy Institute and co-directs the Global Politics and Religion Initiative. She also teaches in the Global Security Studies department of Johns Hopkins University's Zanvyl Krieger School of Arts and Sciences, the American University's School of International Service, and Georgetown University's Center for Arab Studies. Dr. Austin's research interests include the role of religion, literature and political culture more generally in defining politics and policy-making, and the history and politics of the Middle East and North Africa. She received her Ph.D. in political science from Columbia University and her M.A. in International Affairs from SAIS. Dr. Austin's most recent articles include: "The New Opposition in Iran" (2010) and "The Politics of Youth Bulge: From Islamic Activism to Democratic Reform in the Middle East and North Africa" (2011).
Dr. Brzezinski is a Counselor and trustee at the Center for Strategic and International Studies; trustee of the Trilateral Commission; national security adviser to President Jimmy Carter and member of the President's Foreign Intelligence Advisory Board; 1981 recipient of the Presidential Medal of Freedom; former faculty member at Columbia and Harvard Universities; Ph.D., government, Harvard University
He is the author of America and the World: Conversations on the Future of American Foreign Policy, co-author (2008); Second Chance: Three Presidents and the Crisis of American Superpower (2007); The Choice: Global Domination or Global Leadership (2004); The Geo-strategic Triad: Living With China, Europe and Russia (2001); The Grand Chessboard (1997); Out of Control (1993); The Grand Failure (1989); Game Plan (1986); Power and Principle (1983)
Francis Fukuyama is based at Stanford University as the Olivier Nomellini Senior Fellow at the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies; has served at SAIS as Bernard L. Schwartz Professor of International Political Economy, director of the International Development Program and dean of faculty; formerly Omer L. and Nancy Hirst Professor of Public Policy at the School of Public Policy at George Mason University; was a member of the Political Science Department of the RAND Corporation; twice served as a member of the Policy Planning Staff of the U.S. Department of State, the first time as a regular member specializing in Middle East affairs, later as deputy director for European political-military affairs; was a member of the U.S. delegation to the Egyptian-Israeli talks on Palestinian autonomy; serves on advisory boards including those for the RAND Corporation, The American Interest, the Journal of Democracy and The New America Foundation; has written widely on issues relating to democratization and international political economy, state-building, institutions and political development; Ph.D., political science, Harvard University
He is the author of East Asian Multilateralism: Prospects for Regional Stability, co-editor (2008); Falling Behind: Explaining the Development Gap Between the United States and Latin America, editor (2008); America at the Crossroads: Democracy, Power and the Neoconservative Legacy (2006); Nation-Building: Beyond Afghanistan and Iraq, editor (2006); State-Building: Governance and World Order in the 21st Century (2004); Our Post-human Future: Consequences of the Biotechnology Revolution (2002); The Great Disruption: Human Nature and the Reconstitution of Social Order (1999); Trust: The Social Virtues and the Creation of Prosperity (1995); The End of History and the Last Man (1992)
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.
Grace Goodell taught international development at The Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies. Goodell received her Ph.D. in anthropology from Columbia University, where she studied under Conrad Arensberg. She has been a visiting scholar at the Australian National University and at the Harvard Institute for International Development, a fellow in law and development at the Harvard Law School, and a fellow at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars. Goodell was previously the Director of the Program on Social Change and Development at Johns Hopkins, and during her tenure started the Heartland Center for Leadership Development, a community development leadership training program for inner-city Washington, DC.
Wilifrid Kohl is the former director of the International Energy and Environment Program of the Foreign Policy Institute and former director of SAIS's Bologna Center; served as associate director of Columbia University's Institute in Western Europe; past international affairs fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations and the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars; former staff member of the National Security Council and program officer at the Ford Foundation; taught at the University of Pennsylvania and lectured at the Foreign Service Institute of the U.S. Department of State; member of the International Association of Energy Economics; Ph.D., political science, Columbia University
He is the author of After the Oil Price Collapse: OPEC, the United States and the World Oil Market, editor (1991); Methanol as an Alternative Fuel Choice, editor (1990); International Institutions for Energy Management (1983); After the Second Oil Crisis: Energy Policies in Europe, America and Japan, editor (1982); articles on energy issues
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 was senior writer-in-residence at the Center for Strategic and International Studies; served as staff writer for the Los Angeles Times, including positions as Beijing bureau chief, national security correspondent and foreign affairs columnist; was staff writer for the New Haven Journal-Courier, The Washington Post, Philadelphia Inquirer and The Baltimore Sun; received the National Press Club Edwin M. Hood Award for diplomatic correspondence in 1993 and 1999, the Edward Weintal Prize for diplomatic reporting in 1999, the New York Public Library Helen Bernstein Award for best book of the year by a journalist in 2000 and the Asia-Pacific Award for best book about Asia in 2000; was finalist for the Lionel Gelber Prize for books on international relations in 2000 and the Arthur Ross Book Prize in 2005; is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations; formerly a guest scholar at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars and fellow of the American Academy in Berlin; serves as guest commentator for television and radio networks; B.A., sociology, Harvard University
He is the author of The Obamians (2012); The Rebellion of Ronald Reagan: A History of the End of the Cold War (2009); The China Fantasy: How Our Leaders Explain Away Chinese Repression (2007); Rise of the Vulcans: The History of Bush's War Cabinet (2004); About Face: A History of America's Curious Relationship With China, From Nixon to Clinton (1999); Beijing Jeep (1989); "Congress and Taiwan" in Making China Policy (2001); numerous articles in The Atlantic Monthly, The New Republic and The Washington Post
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.
Dr. Joshua Muravchik is a Non-Resident 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.
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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.
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.
Dr. Platt serves as a principal in the Washington, D.C., office of Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher, works on national security and international issues; focuses on providing strategic advice to companies on high- technology matters in the executive and legislative branches of government; has significant experience representing major corporations in congressional investigations; previously served as chief of the Arms Transfer Division of the U.S. Arms Control and Disarmament Agency, principal foreign policy adviser to then-U.S. Senator Edmund Muskie and a senior staff member of the Rand Corporation; was a fellow at Stanford University's Hoover Institution; Ph.D., political science, Columbia University
Mr. Satter is a Senior fellow with the Hudson Institute; adjunct professor at JHU's Zanvyl Krieger School of Arts & Sciences Advanced Academic Programs; former research fellow with the Hoover Institution at Stanford University and visiting professor at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign; former Moscow correspondent for the Financial Times; special correspondent on Soviet affairs for The Wall Street Journal; police reporter for The Chicago Tribune early in career; B.Litt., political philosophy, University of Oxford
He is the author of It Was a Long Time Ago and It Never Happened Anyway: Russia and the Communist Past (2011); Darkness at Dawn: The Rise of the Russian Criminal State (2003); Age of Delirium: The Decline and Fall of the Soviet Union (1996)