In his new book The Arab Winter: A Tragedy, my guest Noah Feldman maps some of the enduring political consequences of the Arab Spring.

Noah Feldman is an author and constitutional scholar who is the Felix Frankfurter Professor of Law at Harvard Law School. He also hosts the Deep Background Podcast. 

In his new book, he argues that the Arab Spring abruptly ended some long term trends that had shaped the history of the region in the decades prior. This includes ending experiments in Arab nationalisms in the region -- for example, "Libyan" is no longer a particularly relevant political identity. Noah Feldman also argues that the Arab Spring ended what is known as "political Islam" or "Islamism" as a driving force in the region, which we discuss at length.

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