This symposium presents the remarks from a roundtable at the 2001APSA Annual meeting. Originally conceptualized as a discussion inwhich political theorists would speak with political scientists of amore empirical orientation, the roundtable broadened its purview totap into the richness of the debate engendered by the Perestroikacommunications that spread hroughout the discipline of politicalscience throughout 2000–2001. The panelists hoped to encouragepublic discussion about the future of political science.