Kamran Bokhari
Adjunct Assistant Professor
Kamran Bokhari, PhD teaches a graduate course on Central Asia & Eurasian Geopolitics. Dr. Bokhari is a Senior Director at the New Lines Institute for Strategy & Policy in Washington of which he is a key founder.
Previously, Bokhari served as New Lines Institute's Director of the Analytical Development Department (2019-23). He played a pivotal role in establishing the Institute's M.A. program in Strategy & Policy in which he teaches three seminars: Strategic Analysis in an Interconnected World, The Global Architecture and Analytical Development. Dr. Bokhari also teaches an upper division course on the Geopolitics of the Middle East in the Political Science department at the University of Delaware and publishes a weekly essay for Geopolitical Futures.
Bokhari has also served as the Central Asia Studies Course Coordinator at U.S. State Department’s Foreign Service Institute (2019-20). 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 strategic forecasts. Since 2015, Dr. Bokhari has also been a national security and foreign policy specialist at the University of Ottawa’s Professional Development Institute. He served as a Fellow with the Program on Extremism at the George Washington University (2016-2018) and has served as a Senior Consultant on many projects with The World Bank since 2009.
Dr. Bokhari is the author of “Political Islam in the Age of Democratization” (Palgrave Macmillan, 2013) and 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.
Bokhari earned his Ph.D. from the Department of Politics and International Relations at the University of Westminster (London) after successfully defending his thesis “Moderations Among Salafists & Jihadists,” which examined the process of ideological and behavioral transformation among radical Islamist actors. He tweets at @KamranBokhari.