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Support for such a move has fallen to the lowest level in more than a decade of Council surveys.

"Far from being an idealist driven to spread democracy, commerce, protection of human rights or some other value, Biden is a practitioner of realpolitik," Paul Poast argues.

Council polling finds support for Trump’s border wall and use of troops, but wide opposition to his mass-deportation proposal.

Candace Rondeaux uses Council-New America data to analyze what demographic shifts might mean for the future of US foreign policy.

Trump's foreign policy platform is "essentially a rerun of the script he used the first time around," Paul Poast writes.

“Being welcomed into the great power club is as much about perception as it is about reality," Paul Poast writes.

After decades of underinvestment and spending cuts to NATO, there remains much more to be done. But virtually all members now understand the urgency of the task at hand.

"Presidents have a long history of both expanding and testing the limits of their powers," Paul Poast writes.

"China has become not just an enabler, I would say a participant in this direct confrontation, which is direct violation of international law."

Taiwan’s shift toward more explicitly nationalist politics has exposed serious contradictions in US-China policy, Paul Heer argues.