Almost everyone today agrees that the Arab uprising has failed. But Marc Lynch argues it has not failed—it has only just begun. While the protest wave has passed, the conditions which drove it have only strengthened and Lynch believes there will be no return to stability anytime soon. He suggests we should expect more upheaval, more state failures, more sudden regime collapses, more insurgencies, and more proxy wars. Informed by commentators and analysts from the Arab world, Lynch offers a clear distillation of the Arab uprisings, a new framework for understanding the politics of the Middle East, and advises most importantly: where do we go from here?