Who Will Bear the Costs of a Global Trade Adjustment?; The Price of Russian Paranoia; Can Israel End Its Forever Wars?
Foreign Affairs This Week

September 4, 2026 | View in Browser | Sponsored by Independent 20th Century

 

This week’s highlights:

- A Great Rebalancing Is Coming by Michael Pettis

- The Price of Russian Paranoia by Andrei Soldatov and Irina Borogan

- Can Israel End Its Forever Wars? by Amos Harel

- The Real Risk of a Trade War With Canada by Chad P. Bown

- Podcast: Jessica Chen Weiss discusses what China wants

- The Case for a Stalemate With Iran by James F. Jeffrey

- Leave Europe to the Europeans by Jennifer Kavanagh and Justin Logan

 

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The deck of a container ship in Bremerhaven, Germany, August 2025

A Great Rebalancing Is Coming

Who Will Bear the Costs of a Global Trade Adjustment?

By Michael Pettis

 
The Kremlin, Moscow, August 2026

The Price of Russian Paranoia

Spy Hunting Shores Up Putin’s Power—but Paralyzes the State

By Andrei Soldatov and Irina Borogan

 
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu voting in Jerusalem, August 2026

Can Israel End Its Forever Wars?

The Netanyahu Doctrine Could Outlast Netanyahu

By Amos Harel

 
A steel plant in Hamilton, Canada, August 2026

The Real Risk of a Trade War With Canada

America Needs Its Neighbors to Counter China

By Chad P. Bown

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