Kamran Bokhari, PhD, is Senior Director and a key founder of the New Lines Institute for Strategy & Policy. Previously, Dr. Bokhari served as Director of the Institute’s Analytical Development Department and played a pivotal role in establishing its M.A. program in Strategy & Policy, where he teaches three seminars: Strategic Analysis in an Interconnected World, The Global Architecture, and Analytical Development. Bokhari also teaches a graduate course on Central Asia & Eurasian Geopolitics at Georgetown University’s Security Studies Program and a specialized upper-division course on the Geopolitics of the Middle East at the University of Delaware. He publishes a weekly essay for Geopolitical Futures and is a regular columnist with Forbes. Dr. Bokhari brings over 15 years of private-sector intelligence experience, providing intellectual leadership in publishing cutting-edge geopolitical analyses and strategic forecasts and has also served as Central Asia Studies Course Coordinator at the U.S. State Department’s Foreign Service Institute. His core areas of expertise are: Strategic Intelligence Analysis, Foreign Policy/National Security, Eurasian Geopolitics (Middle East, South Asia, Central Asia, & South Caucasus) Democratization, Civil-Military Relations, Comparative Political Systems, Counterterrorism, & Political Islam.