
Kamran Bokhari
Director of Analytical DevelopmentDr. Kamran Bokhari is a Founding Director at the Center for Global Policy where he heads the Governance in Muslim-Majority States program. Dr. Bokhari also teaches courses on Global Studies and Central Asia at U.S. Department of State's Foreign Service Institute. Bokhari is also a Non-Resident Scholar at the Arabia Foundation. He served as a Fellow with the Program on Extremism at George Washington University (2016-18). Dr. Bokhari has also been a Senior Consultant with The World Bank (2009-16). 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 & 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: 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) & Debating Moderate Islam: The Geopolitics of Islam and the West (University of Utah, 2007).
His core areas of expertise are: Geopolitical/Intelligence Analysis of the Middle East, South Asia, & Central Asia, Countering Violent Extremism/Counterterrorism/Deradicalization, Islamist/Muslim Moderation, Geosectarianism, Governance, Democratization, Civil-Military Relations, & Comparative Political Systems. He has briefed various US, Canadian & UK government agencies, published thousands of analytical/theoretical/op-ed articles, presented papers in int'l academic/policy forums and given hundreds of interviews to leading global media organizations. Bokhari earned his PhD from the Department of Politics & Int'l Relations at the University of Westminster after successfully defending his thesis 'Moderations Among Salafists & Jihadists'. He tweets at @KamranBokhari.
Latest Publications
The Taliban Deal & U.S.-Jihadist Negotiations
September 23, 2020The United Arab Emirates, Israel, and the Strategic Imbalance of Power
August 19, 2020China Joins India and Pakistan in the Kashmir Battlespace
June 18, 2020What Now After the U.S.-Taliban Deal
March 2, 2020Iran is Long Past its Peak
January 15, 2020