If a former White House coordinator for the Middle East, North Africa, and the Gulf, who served as special assistant to President Obama concludes that you shouldn’t undertake regime change in the Middle East, you probably shouldn’t. But nothing is ever quite that simple.

In Losing the Long Game, The False Promise of Regime Change in the Middle East, Philip Gordon examines what went wrong.

This episode is part of a series made possible by the German Government which examines Israel’s relationship with the EU and European countries.