Kamran Bokhari
Kamran Bokhari, PhD, is a regular contributor to and former senior analyst (2015-2018) with Geopolitical Futures. Dr. Bokhari is now the Senior Director, Eurasian Security & Prosperity Portfolio at the New Lines Institute for Strategy & Policy in Washington, DC. Dr. Bokhari is also a national security and foreign policy specialist at the University of Ottawa’s Professional Development Institute. He has served as the Coordinator for Central Asia Studies at the U.S. Department of State’s Foreign Service Institute. Follow him on X (formerly Twitter) at @Kamran Bokhari
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New Normals in the Middle East
The Middle East is entering a period of strategic adjustment as the United States offloads some of its responsibilities to regional allies. The region’s four most important powers – Turkey, Israel, Saudi Arabia and Iran – are recalibrating their security postures accordingly. This is generating new alignments and fault lines as each country tries to […]
No Strategy Lasts Forever
The 2025 U.S. National Security Strategy carries far-reaching consequences for countries that, over the past eight decades, have labored to persuade successive American administrations that U.S. support – security,...
China, Japan and the New US Geostrategy in the Indo-Pacific
As Washington shifts the burden of regional security onto its allies, U.S. adversaries are moving to exploit the resulting power vacuums. Nowhere is this more apparent than in the...
Kazakhstan’s Strategic Breakout: The Abraham Accords as a Route to the High Seas
Kazakhstan’s decision last month to join the Abraham Accords carries strategic implications that extend far beyond efforts to wind down the eight-decade conflict between Israel and its Arab neighbors....
Saudi Arabia’s Burden-Sharing Test
As the most volatile theater in the international system, the Middle East poses the greatest obstacle to President Donald Trump’s effort to operationalize a U.S. strategy that shifts front-line...
Syria, Gaza and the Shifting Middle Eastern Order
Early this week, U.S. President Donald Trump welcomed Syrian President Ahmed al-Sharaa at the White House, signaling Washington’s intention to recast Syria as the cornerstone of a new Middle...
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