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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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 Aug. 12, the Pakistani military announced that it had arrested the recently retired head of the country’s premier intelligence service and initiated court martial proceedings against […]
The New Arc of Crisis in Southern Eurasia
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Explaining China’s Unusual Maritime Activity
China recently made several unusual military moves in the broader Pacific rim. From July 10 to July 15, the Shandong carrier strike group of the People’s Liberation Army Navy...
Why Iran’s Establishment Let a Reformist Become President
For the first time in nearly a generation, Iran has elected a reformist who is not a cleric as president. But Masoud Pezeshkian’s victory doesn’t change the fact that...
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