Dr. Kamran Bokhari is the Senior Director of the Eurasian Security and Prosperity portfolio at the New Lines Institute. He served as Director of the Analytical Development Department from 2019 to 2023. Dr. Bokhari is also a national security and foreign policy specialist at the University of Ottawa’s Professional Development Institute. He has also served as the Central Asia Studies Course Coordinator at U.S. State Department’s Foreign Service Institute. He was a Fellow with the Program on Extremism at the George Washington University (2016-2018).
Dr. Bokhari has also been a Senior Consultant with The World Bank since 2009. He has 15 years of experience in the private sector intelligence space during which he provided intellectual leadership in the publishing of cutting-edge geopolitical analysis and forecasts.
Dr. Bokhari is the author of “Political Islam in the Age of Democratization” (Palgrave Macmillan, 2013). He has also contributed chapters to edited volumes: “Wars of Ideas: Theology, Interpretation and Power in the Muslim World” (Rowman Littlefield, 2021), “Strategic Analysis in Support of International Policy Making” (Rowman Littlefield, 2017), “Reassessing Order and Disorder in the Middle East: Regional Imbalance or Disintegration?” (Rowman Littlefield, 2017), “Oxford Handbook on Islam & Politics” (Oxford University, 2013) and “Debating Moderate Islam: The Geopolitics of Islam and the West” (University of Utah, 2007).
His core areas of expertise are: Central and South Asia and the Middle East, Intelligence Analysis/Geopolitics, Foreign Policy/National Security, Democratization, Civil-Military Relations, Comparative Political Systems, Geosectarianism, Counterterrorism, Islamist/Muslim Moderation, Islamism/Jihadism He has briefed various U.S., Canadian and U.K. government agencies, published thousands of analytical/theoretical/op-ed articles, presented papers in international academic/policy forums, and given hundreds of interviews to leading global media organizations.
Dr. Bokhari earned his Ph.D. from the Department of Politics and International Relations at the University of Westminster after successfully defending his thesis “Moderations Among Salafists & Jihadists.” He tweets at @KamranBokhari.
In this episode of Eurasian Connectivity, Dr. Kamran Bokhari and Ejaz Haider, a prominent Pakistani broadcast journalist and analyst, discuss the recent arrest of Pakistan's former ISI head, the country's challenging civil-military relations, and the external pressures Pakistan faces.
In this episode of Eurasian Connectivity, Dr. Kamran Bokhari hosts former CENTCOM commander, Retired Marine Corps Gen. Kenneth F. “Frank” McKenzie, Jr., for a discussion on the intensifying conflict between Iran and Israel, the challenge of Iranian efforts to alter the security architecture of the Middle East, and the implications for U.S. foreign policy in the region and beyond.
In this episode of Eurasian Connectivity, Kamran Bokhari hosts Nicole Hark, country director for Syria at Mercy Corps, for a discussion of the country’s humanitarian situation, particularly in its northeastern and northwestern regions, where her group’s operations are concentrated.
In this episode of the Eurasian Connectivity podcast, Kamran Bokhari sits down with Vali Nasr, professor of International Affairs and Middle East Studies at the School of Advanced International Studies. Together, they discuss Iran's presidential race after Raisi's death, the future of Iran's Supreme Leadership, and the shifting geopolitical landscape between Iran and Israel.
