Kamran Bokhari
Kamran Bokhari, PhD, is a regular contributor to and former senior analyst (2015-2018) with Geopolitical Futures. A strategic forecaster, Dr. Bokhari is now a Senior Resident Fellow with the Middle East Policy Council and a Senior Director at the New Lines Institute for Strategy & Policy in Washington, DC. Bokhari also teaches Eurasian Geopolitics at Georgetown University's Security Studies Program. Previously, 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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What Will the Middle East Look Like After the Iran War?
The United States, as we’ve written before, is in the process of implementing a new global geostrategy that would allow Washington to offload some of its security responsibilities to allied partners. But that can’t happen if the existing conflicts in Eurasia are not addressed. In the Middle East, stability requires fundamentally altering the strategic environment […]
The Risks of Conflict Expansion from the Gulf to the Caspian
The Strait of Hormuz is nearly 3,000 kilometers (2,000 miles) from the frontline in southeastern Ukraine, but the two wars – one pitting the U.S. against Iran, the other...
The Houthis Are Not Fighting Iran’s War
The Iran war now has a Houthi problem. Iranian attacks on three commercial tankers in the Strait of Hormuz on July 8 broke the fragile ceasefire declared only a...
As Iran Declines, Turkey Advances
For all the attention paid to the conflict in Iran, the broader changes in the Middle East have gone largely ignored, particularly with regard to Turkey. Egyptian Defense Minister...
The Red Sea: A Strategic Basin Far Beyond the Houthi Threat
Security in the Red Sea basin is often boiled down to one thing: the Yemeni Houthi rebels’ ability to disrupt commercial shipping, particularly as the war in Iran raises...
Rolling Back Iran: Why Iraq Is the Decisive Front
The U.S. attack on Iran in late February, besides preventing the country from acquiring nuclear weapons, was intended to reverse the unintended strategic consequences of America’s decision in 2003...
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