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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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 has become increasingly vulnerable. Both these developments are unfolding as Tehran approaches the most critical juncture since its revolution nearly half a century ago. The political […]
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,...
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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...
Geoeconomic Integration of Central Asia
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Since it reemerged as a major player in the Middle East in the late 2000s, Turkey has consistently encountered the same obstacle to even greater regional influence: Iran. With...
Iranian Elections and the Future of the Regime
A new generation of Iranian leaders is emerging that is ideologically far more hardline than what the country has produced since the founding of the Islamic Republic 45 years...
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