Academics

Dr. Anthony Eames

Anthony Eames is the Director of Scholarly Initiatives at the Ronald Reagan Presidential Foundation and Institute, where he oversees the development of academic alliances and is responsible for fellowships and programs to support scholarship on the Reagan presidency, legacy, and era. He holds a Ph.D. in history from Georgetown University and an M.A. jointly conferred from King’s College London and Georgetown University. He is the author of A Voice In Their Own Destiny: Reagan, Thatcher, and Public Diplomacy in the Nuclear 1980s (UMass) and co-author, with John Baylis, of Sharing Nuclear Secrets: Trust, Mistrust, and Ambiguity in Anglo-American Nuclear Relations, 1939-Present (Oxford). He has spoken and published widely on nuclear and national security issues in journals and other outlets, including for The Journal of Military History, Technology & Culture, and War on the Rocks. In addition to his work at the Institute, Anthony teaches for George Washington University’s Elliott School of International Affairs.

Congressman Glenn Nye

Glenn Carlyle Nye III is an American politician who was the U.S. representative for Virginia's 2nd congressional district from 2009 to 2011. He is a member of the Democratic Party. He was defeated in his attempt to attain re-election on November 2, 2010. The district included all of Virginia Beach and the Eastern Shore, as well as parts of Norfolk and Hampton.

Nye currently serves as president and CEO of the Center for the Study of the Presidency and Congress.

Ambassador William Taylor

Ambassador William B. Taylor is vice president, Europe and Russia at the U.S. Institute of Peace. In 2019, he served as chargé d’affaires at the U.S. embassy in Kyiv and as the U.S. ambassador to Ukraine from 2006 to 2009. During the Arab Spring, he oversaw U.S. assistance and support to Egypt, Tunisia, Libya and Syria. He served in Jerusalem as the U.S. government's representative to the Mideast Quartet. He served in Kabul in 2002 and in Baghdad in 2004.

In the 1990s, Ambassador Taylor coordinated U.S. assistance to the former Soviet Union and Eastern Europe. He earlier served on the staff of Senator Bill Bradley.

Ambassador Taylor is a graduate of West Point and Harvard’s Kennedy School and served as an infantry platoon leader and combat company commander in the U.S. Army in Vietnam and Germany.

Dr. Christian Ruth

Dr. Christian Ruth is a historian of American foreign relations. His book manuscript, One-Third Rich and Two-Thirds Hungry: Development and Neoliberalism in the Late Cold War, examines how foreign aid and global socioeconomic development were changed after the Vietnam War. He is also working on a chapter on basic human needs strategies in aid and ethics, and a second manuscript on the effects of modern day monarchist movements on political extremism.

 Before he arrived at the Reagan Institute, Christian was a lecturer on foreign relations, American history, and global affairs for Marist College, and SUNY Albany. He received his BA and MA in history from the University of Kentucky, and a PhD in history from SUNY at Albany. 

Elective - Foreign Policy and Decision Making

Ambassador Paula Dobriansky

Paula Jon Dobriansky is an American diplomat, public official, and foreign policy expert who served as Under Secretary of State for Global Affairs (2001–2009) and the President's Envoy to Northern Ireland (2007–2009). A specialist in Central/East European affairs and the former Soviet Union, trans-Atlantic relations, and political-military affairs, Dobriansky held key senior roles in the administrations of five U.S. presidents.

Since 2009, she has been a Senior Fellow at Harvard University's JFK Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs and was named in 2018 the Vice Chair of the Scowcroft Center for Strategy and Security, the Atlantic Council.