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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The Future of an Escalating US-Iran Conflict

Iran’s efforts to challenge the United States in the Middle East are reaching an inflection point. After decades of reshaping the domestic political environments of different regional countries in its favor, Tehran is now using its alliance structure to create strategic problems for Washington. U.S. efforts to counter Iran by fighting its proxies have not […]

2024 Annual Forecast: India’s Transformation

Forecasting national behavior is built on continuums. One continuum is a nation’s history. Another is our analytic method. Simply looking at nations will not provide a systematic forecast. The...

The Limits of Iran’s Geopolitical Expansion

After China and Russia, Iran is the biggest foreign policy challenge for the United States, one that has bedeviled successive administrations for nearly half a century. The Islamic Republic...

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On Dec. 19, a day after the U.S. announced a multinational naval task force to protect commercial shipping in the southern Red Sea and the Gulf of Aden, the...

Saudi Arabia’s Strategic Plans After Gaza War

As the de facto leader of the Arab world, Saudi Arabia is expected to play a key role in bringing the war in Gaza to an end and, more...

China and India Struggling in Afghanistan

Over two years since the Taliban returned to power in Afghanistan, China and India are both trying to forge working relationships with the regime. In September, China became the...

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