FOREIGN AFFAIRS Magazine This week

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July 3, 2026 | View in Browser

This week’s highlights: - The Afghanistan Reckoning by Carter Malkasian - The Broken Nuclear Umbrella by Jennifer Lind and Daryl G. Press - Worse Than an Axis by Thomas Wright - The End of Hamas by Jaser AbuMousa - PODCAST Sebastian Mallaby explains how AI will reshape U.S. politics, economics, and national security - Who Is China? by Ian Johnson - How to Save the U.S.-Israeli Alliance by Amos Yadlin and Avner Golov

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BLOGGER INSERT: RELATED READING MATERIAL

The Afghanistan Reckoning Forever Wars and the Costs of Collective Forgetting By Carter Malkasian The Broken Nuclear Umbrella What Comes After Extended Deterrence By Jennifer Lind and Daryl G. Press

Worse Than an Axis Why the Informal Alignment of U.S. Adversaries Is So Dangerous By Thomas Wright The End of Hamas And the Convenient Fiction of Continued Menace By Jaser AbuMousa

New Podcast Episode The AI Race Nobody Can Win A Conversation With Sebastian Mallaby Listen Now

Who Is China? Beijing’s Self-Inflicted Identity Crisis By Ian Johnson How to Save the U.S.-Israeli Alliance If Iran Gets a New Deal With America, So Must Israel By Amos Yadlin and Avner Golov