New Normals in the Middle East

Turkey, Israel, Saudi Arabia and Iran are adjusting their strategies as the U.S. offloads certain responsibilities.

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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 – Turkey, Israel, Saudi Arabia and Iran – are recalibrating their security postures accordingly. This is generating new alignments and fault lines as each country tries to […]

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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