Looking East: a changing Middle East realigns with a rising Asia

Abstract

"Major Middle East nations are looking east, seeking to forge closer ties with the quickly rising Asia. This may represent a new sort of geo-magnetic reversal, as this time the poles flip from West to East, with potentially the same shocking reverberations of a North-South polar reversal. This work reviews the "Look East" approach of Iran, Israel, Turkey, Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, Iraq and Egypt"--