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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Azerbaijan and the South Caucasus Borderlands
As Russia is locked in a difficult war in Ukraine, its southern flank – the South Caucasus – is in disarray. There is a new balance of power there now that Azerbaijan has consolidated its victory against Armenia in Nagorno-Karabakh, and, upset that Russia did not come to its aid, Armenia seems to be reorienting […]
The New Imbalance of Power in the Middle East
The strategic situation in the Middle East is a culmination of Arab states’ decades-long failure to drive regional security. The Cold War, non-Arab regional powers, and the emergence of...
For Iran and Israel, There’s No Going Back
A decades-old norm was broken April 13 when Iran fired hundreds of drones and missiles at Israel from its own territory, instead of relying on its proxies. Israel’s leadership...
Iran’s Vulnerable Eastern Flank
Iran’s strategic position has significantly strengthened in the Middle East in the wake of the war in Gaza – even as its rear flank in South and Central Asia...
Israel and Iran Step Toward the Brink
Iran has sworn that it will answer Israel’s recent airstrike on Tehran’s diplomatic compound in Syria, raising concerns over a wider conflict in the Middle East. In reality, however,...
Jihadists Exploit US Conflicts with Russia and Iran
Five years after losing the last stronghold of its defunct caliphate in the Levant, the Islamic State is making a comeback. The group’s center of gravity, however, has moved...
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