Alexander Cooley (Claire Tow Professor of Political Science, Barnard College; Vice Provost for Research, Libraries and Academic Centers, Barnard College) appeared on Marc Lynch’s podcast, Middle East Political Science, to discuss his review essay, “The Uprisings of Gaza: How Geopolitical Crises Have Reshaped Academic Communities from Tahrir to Kyiv.” The essay reflects upon the contributions of Marc Lynch’s edited volume (The Political Science of the Middle East: Theory and Research Since the Arab Uprisings) to address three occurring central issues at the intersection of regional studies and political science that are affected by geopolitical shocks: how shocks highlight previously neglected topics and actors; how they subsequently discredit and privilege certain disciplines and methods; and how they recast the role of academic research within global communities of knowledge and policy-making. Together, Cooley and Lynch explore the comparisons between political sciences in the Middle East and political science in Eurasia.