Sir John Jenkins, formerly the UK's ambassador to Iraq, Libya and Saudi Arabia, joins Emily Tamkin in Washington DC and Ido Vock in Berlin to look at the decade that's passed since the Arab Spring, and what lessons have been learnt in both the region and the wider international community.

Further reading:

Sir John Jenkins' piece, The lights that failed, discusses why the cause of liberal democracy collapsed in the Middle East.

BBC Middle East Editor, Jeremy Bowen, has written for the New Statesman to explore how the dream of the Arab Spring died.

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Lessons From The Arab Spring