What Will the Middle East Look Like After the Iran War?

The war with Iran was never really about defeating Tehran – it was about creating space for a new regional order to take shape.

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The United States, as we’ve written before, is in the process of implementing a new global geostrategy that would allow Washington to offload some of its security responsibilities to allied partners. But that can’t happen if the existing conflicts in Eurasia are not addressed. In the Middle East, stability requires fundamentally altering the strategic environment […]

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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