President Trump's foreign policy promises

Dale Copeland, a Miller Center faculty senior fellow, is a professor of international affairs in the UVA Department of Politics. Copeland specializes in security studies and political economy. His latest book is A World Safe for Commerce: American Foreign Policy from the Revolution to the Rise of China. He also wrote Economic Interdependence and War, which examines the conditions under which inter-state trade will lead to either war or peace and won the 2017 Best Book Award of the International Studies Association, and The Origins of Major War, which studies the rise and fall of great world powers and the devastation of system-wide war. He holds a BCom from Queen's University, an MA from Johns Hopkins University, and a PhD from the University of Chicago.

Jeffrey W. Legro, a Miller Center nonresident senior fellow, is University Professor at the University of Richmond, where he was also the executive vice president and provost from 2017 to 2023. Before that he was the Ambassador Henry J. Taylor and Mrs. Marion R. Taylor Professor and vice provost for global affairs at the University of Virginia. A specialist on international affairs, Legro is the author of numerous  books  and  articles, including  Rethinking the World: Great Power Strategies and International Order and Cooperation Under Fire: Restraint During World War II. He co-edited  To Lead the World: American Strategy After the Bush Doctrine; Shaper Nations: Strategies for a Changing World; and  In Uncertain Times: American Foreign Policy after the Berlin Wall and 9/11. He is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations and a board member of the Richmond World Affairs Council. Legro holds an MA and PhD in political science from UCLA and a BA in Russian and economics from Middlebury College.

Scott C. Miller is the director of the Miller Center's Project on Democracy and Capitalism and an assistant professor at the Miller Center. From 2019 to 2021, he held a postdoctoral fellowship in economic and business history at the Yale School of Management’s International Center for Finance. As an economic historian, Miller examines the development of modern economic systems, particularly during periods of instability and volatility. He is the author or co-author of numerous scholarly papers on economic history, financial crises, and the interplay between societal and economic change. He also has written or co-written 10 case studies on financial crises and economic development.

John Owen is a Miller Center faculty senior fellow and the Ambassador Henry J. Taylor and Mrs. Marion R. Taylor Professor of Politics at the University of Virginia. He is the author of Liberal Peace, Liberal War: American Politics and International Security; The Clash of Ideas in World Politics: Transnational Networks, States, and Regime Change 1510-2010; and The Ecology of Nations: American Democracy in a Fragile World Order. A recipient of fellowships from Harvard, Stanford, and Princeton Universities, Owen is a member of the editorial board of International Security and a faculty fellow at the UVA Institute for Advanced Studies in Culture.

Mara Rudman is a James R. Schlesinger Distinguished Professor at the Miller Center, where she directs the Ripples of Hope Project, aimed at identifying practical approaches to help democratic leaders resolve key challenges. She serves on the 2022 National Defense Strategy Commission and the Howard University College of Arts and Sciences board of advisors. Rudman also consults for Democracy Forward. She was previously executive vice president for policy at the Center for American Progress, and her government positions have included serving as deputy assistant to the president for national security affairs in the Obama and Clinton administrations; deputy envoy for the Office of the Special Envoy for Middle East Peace at the U.S. Department of State; assistant administrator for the Middle East at the U.S. Agency for International Development; and chief counsel to the House Foreign Affairs Committee. She received an AB from Dartmouth College and a JD from Harvard Law School.

Allan C. Stam is a Miller Center faculty senior fellow and University Professor of public policy and politics and former dean of the Frank Batten School of Leadership and Public Policy at the University of Virginia.  Previously, he was director of the International Policy Center at the Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy and professor of political science and senior research scientist at the University of Michigan’s Institute for Social Research. Among other books, he is the author of The Behavioral Origins of War (University of Michigan Press, 2004) and Why Leaders Fight (Cambridge University Press, 2015).

Brantly Womack, a Miller Center faculty senior fellow, is professor emeritus of foreign affairs at the University of Virginia. He is the author of China Among Unequals: Asymmetric International Relationships in Asia (World Scientific Press, 2010) China and Vietnam: The Politics of Asymmetry (Cambridge, 2006), as well as more than 100 articles and book chapters. In 2011, Womack received the China Friendship Award for his work with Chinese universities. He holds honorary positions at Jilin University, East China Normal University, and Zhongshan (Sun Yat-Sen) University.

William J. Antholis has served as director and CEO of UVA's Miller Center of Public Affairs since January 2015. In that time, the Miller Center has strengthened its position as the leading nonpartisan research institution on the American presidency and worked with scholars across the University of Virginia to deliver vital research to policymakers and the public. Before coming to the Miller Center, Antholis served as managing director at the Brookings Institution from 2004 to 2014, working directly with Brookings's president and vice presidents. Antholis is the author of Inside Out India and China: Local Politics Go Global (2013) and co-author (with Strobe Talbott) of Fast Forward: Ethics and Politics in the Age of Global Warming (2010). He has published articles, book chapters, and opinion pieces on U.S. politics, U.S. foreign policy, international organizations, the G8, climate change, and trade.