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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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 Western Pacific, where China has sharply escalated pressure on Japan to prevent it from emerging as a regional security actor. Beijing’s strategy is to shape the […]
Kazakhstan’s Strategic Breakout: The Abraham Accords as a Route to the High Seas
Kazakhstan’s decision last month to join the Abraham Accords carries strategic implications that extend far beyond efforts to wind down the eight-decade conflict between Israel and its Arab neighbors....
Saudi Arabia’s Burden-Sharing Test
As the most volatile theater in the international system, the Middle East poses the greatest obstacle to President Donald Trump’s effort to operationalize a U.S. strategy that shifts front-line...
Syria, Gaza and the Shifting Middle Eastern Order
Early this week, U.S. President Donald Trump welcomed Syrian President Ahmed al-Sharaa at the White House, signaling Washington’s intention to recast Syria as the cornerstone of a new Middle...
Why Washington’s Adversaries Must Find Accommodation
China, Russia and Iran have certain geopolitical imperatives they can’t achieve without first reaching some kind of accommodation with the United States. Beijing needs tariff relief to stabilize its...
Trump, Xi, and Managing Rivalry
The United States faces an imperative to establish a workable modus vivendi with China. For now, China is a near-peer competitor of the U.S. whose power is regionally concentrated...
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