A Wave Of ‘Smile Offensives’ In The Middle East: Why, And How Real? – Analysis

By Joshua Krasna*

(FPRI) -- Regional power politics in the Middle East have, since the Arab Uprisings of 2011-13, played out on two overlapping axes. The older one is a geopolitical and ideological competition between the “Resistance Front” led by the Islamic Republic of Iran and conservative Arab states led by Saudi...