SETA CONFERENCE By  Dr. Kamran Bokhari  Strategic Forecasting Inc. (Stratfor), Director of Middle East Analysis Date: November 8, 2007 Thursday Time: 15.00 - 16.30 Venue: SETA Foundation, Ankara

U.S foreign policy on Iraq has moved away from dealing with Sunni insurgency to containing the rise of Iran. At the same time though, Washington needs to reach a settlement with Tehran in order to stabilize Baghdad. These two seemingly contradictory goals are at the heart of the problems plaguing Iraq and the region.

Dr. Kamran Bokhari talked about U.S. Iran negotiations on Iraq and  tied this in with the Turkish-Kurdish angle as well.

Kamran Bokhari is a Senior Analyst with Strategic Forecasting, Inc (Stratfor), a private U.S. intelligence firm, appraising geopolitics in the Middle East & South Asia. He is also pursuing a doctorate in political science. Bokhari has published numerous analytical, scholarly, and theoretical articles related to politics of the Muslim world and has presented research papers in many academic forums. He has also been interviewed by a number of leading media outlets as well. His areas of specialization include (but are not limited to) international affairs, security, terrorism, comparative political systems, Islam and democracy, modern Islamic political thought, and Islamist movements. Bokhari is currently working on a book on radical/militant Islamist political thought, entitled 'Voices of Jihadism: Contemporary Radical Islamist Writings', which will be published by I.B. Tauris (U.K.) in 2007. Bokhari – a former Islamist activist - is also a member of the Washington, DC-based think tank Center for the Study of Islam & Democracy (CSID) and is the founder of the email-based Political Islam Discussion List (PIDL).