July 31, 2026 | View in Browser | Sponsored by Foreign Affairs Virtual Graduate School Fair

This week’s highlights:

- Iran and the New Rules of Global Power by Robert A. Pape

- The Hidden Path to Regime Change in Iran by Nader Hashemi

- Beijing’s Next Play for the South China Sea by Lynn Kuok

- How to Reindustrialize America by Jake Sullivan

- Podcast: Robert Lighthizer discusses the end of free trade

- The New Old Middle East by F. Gregory Gause III

- The Loneliest Island by Bonny Lin

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A U.S. Navy aircraft carrier in the Gulf of Panama in Panama City, Panama, March 2026

Iran and the New Rules of Global Power

The Making and Unmaking of American Dominance

By Robert A. Pape

Mourning Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei in Tehran, July 2026

The Hidden Path to Regime Change in Iran

Ending the War Can Strengthen the Prospects for Democracy

By Nader Hashemi

Chinese ships in Scarborough Shoal, South China Sea, June 2026

Beijing’s Next Play for the South China Sea

How China Is Normalizing Its Control

By Lynn Kuok

On the assembly line at an electric vehicle parts factory in St. Clair, Michigan, March 2025

How to Reindustrialize America

The Case for a Strategic Investment Fund

By Jake Sullivan

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