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The conditions that shaped the rise and expansion of American social science are rapidly changing, and with them, the terms of its relationship with power and policy. As globalization has diminished the role of the state as the locus of public policy i.

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Mona El-Ghobashy's Bread and Freedom: Egypt's Revolutionary Situation makes three important contributions to political science. First, it is a sensitive and perceptive account of the years of upheaval in Egypt between the 2011 uprising against Hosni Mubarak and the election of Abdelfattah el-Sisi in 2014. Second, in recounting this history, El-Ghobashy moves political science beyond typologizing, urging us away from assigning labels to instead examining the practices by which each government ruled, how the ruled reacted, and how these interactions shaped the trajectory of political change. In doing so, El-Ghobashy makes the case for focusing on contingency itself as an analytical frame, offering an ambitious argument about the nature of social science as it addresses uncertainty.

A contribution to the "Review Symposium: Universities Between Inter-and Re-nationalization," this essay argues that the critical inquiry characteristic of the university is intrinsically subversive and hence always suspect in the eyes of powerholders. The resulting tension may be expressed in various ways, from social aspiration or popular skepticism to political control or hostility but it never fully resolved.

Globalization has eroded borders, fostered mobility, and deepened inequality virtually everywhere. The waning of the state as the world's default political unit has had myriad consequences; among the most challenging may be the simultaneous expansion of supranational norms of human rights and contraction of legal, enforceable citizenship. The upheavals of the Arab Spring provided eloquent testimony to both the appeal of rights-based political discourse, as protesters across the region called for "bread, freedom, and social justice," and the catastrophic consequences of reliance on weakened and ineffectual states to enforce such rights. The baleful landscape of the Middle East today suggests a warning for the rest of the world: enfeebled states may herald the demise of universal human rights.

At the same time, as we embrace innovation, and confront disrupting our comfortable "standard operating procedures," to use another cornerstone of our curricula, we must always hold fast to the principle that the rule of law is essential to effective governance and the flourishing of society.

For many in the Arab world, the modern European-style state is an awkward device, imposed after the demise of the Ottoman Empire and sustained for the succeeding century by little more than what Stephen Krasner famously called the "organized hypocrisy" of international sovereignty. In fact, the interwar efforts to fasten the institutions of European-style states to the populations of the region introduced several deeply dysfunctional dynamics into modern political life. They established expectations for government that would prove impossible to meet while imposing a system of rule that, far from creating citizens, often reinforced nonstate identities and created deep communal resentment and anger.

This article argues that the technological structure of the modern world has reshaped drastically the role of political scientists as purveyors of information. Only a few decades ago, scholars were still central to the development, collection and dissemination of knowledge. But the transformation in the availability of data due to the proliferation of social media and research engines creates a new environment in which scholars can no longer claim to be the erudite carriers of hard-to-get facts. In order to play a constructive role in this quickly changing setting, political scientists need to invent a new identity for themselves as active practitioners engaged in a dynamic dialogue with students and policymakers.