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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A US-Iran War

The Biden administration has plainly stated its wish to avoid a direct conflict with Iran, but soon it may not have much choice. The United States and Iran have been edging toward war for nearly half a century, particularly because of disagreements over the security architecture in the Middle East since the end of the […]

Middle East Conflict Reshapes India-Iran Relations

The U.S.-Iran conflict in the Middle East may be a boon to India. The Houthi attacks, which have disrupted global shipping, allow New Delhi to enhance its naval power...

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...

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...

Yemen’s Houthis and Iran’s Encircling of Saudi Arabia

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...

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