Turkey, Israel and the New US Geostrategy

In Washington’s new framework, Ankara is the core component and Israel is the most exposed actor.

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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 […]

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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