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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India’s Northeastern Borderlands at Risk

Between discontented citizens and disputed borders, India’s northeast has long posed challenges for the government in New Delhi. The area is cut off from the rest of the country except for a narrow strip of land between Nepal and Bangladesh, and it has become even less secure amid India’s deteriorating relations with China, Myanmar’s implosion […]

The Corridor Dividing Russia and Iran

The Ukraine war has brought Russia and Iran closer, but the full scope of their evolving relationship is more complicated. Until last year, Tehran was the junior partner. But...

Southwest Asia’s Shatter Belt

A strategic vacuum is expanding where Pakistan, Iran and Afghanistan meet. All three states are devolving, each in its own way and at its own pace. Their governments have...

Implications of the War’s Spread to the West Bank

Israel’s military campaign in Gaza has yet to break Hamas, and now the security situation in the West Bank is rapidly deteriorating. The volatility there is driven by the...

Azerbaijan’s Role in Russian Strategy

Russian President Vladimir Putin visited the capital of Azerbaijan on Aug. 18 in what was a very curiously timed trip. Not only was it the first time Putin had...

The Deep Malaise Afflicting Pakistan’s Security Establishment

After decades of dominating the state, Pakistan’s national security establishment has succumbed to the sort of political strife that has wracked the country throughout its nearly 80-year history. On...

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