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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Turkey, Israel and the New US Geostrategy
The United States is rolling out its new geostrategy, centered on burden-sharing and burden-shifting, across the globe. The Middle East is its proving ground. Here, Washington strives to achieve a power balance among three main allies with divergent interests – Turkey, Israel and Saudi Arabia – while navigating the rapid decline of Iran, its chief […]
Iran: Regime Erosion and Frontier Fragility
The foundations of the Iranian regime are eroding and probably will continue to do so for a long time. In a bid to accelerate this process and shape the...
Iran: Elite Paralysis and Systemic Decay
With the 47th anniversary of its founding just around the corner, the Islamic Republic of Iran is spiraling deeper into systemic instability. Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, Iran’s supreme leader for...
New Normals in the Middle East
The Middle East is entering a period of strategic adjustment as the United States offloads some of its responsibilities to regional allies. The region’s four most important powers –...
No Strategy Lasts Forever
The 2025 U.S. National Security Strategy carries far-reaching consequences for countries that, over the past eight decades, have labored to persuade successive American administrations that U.S. support – security,...
China, Japan and the New US Geostrategy in the Indo-Pacific
As Washington shifts the burden of regional security onto its allies, U.S. adversaries are moving to exploit the resulting power vacuums. Nowhere is this more apparent than in the...
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