Eurasia’s New Balance of Power

China, Russia, India and Turkey are too constrained and divided to replace the order the United States built.

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The principal powers in Eurasia have just entered an unusually dense period of high-level diplomacy. The week began with a two-day meeting of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO), from Aug. 31 to Sept. 1. Several leaders in attendance, including Chinese President Xi Jinping, Russian President Vladimir Putin and Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi, will meet […]

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Kamran Bokhari
Kamran Bokhari, PhD, is a regular contributor to and former senior analyst (2015-2018) with Geopolitical Futures. A strategic forecaster, Dr. Bokhari is now a Senior Resident Fellow with the Middle East Policy Council and a Senior Director at the New Lines Institute for Strategy & Policy in Washington, DC. Bokhari also teaches Eurasian Geopolitics at Georgetown University's Security Studies Program. Previously, 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