Theories of International Politics and Zombies
eBook - ePub

Theories of International Politics and Zombies

Apocalypse Edition

  1. 260 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

Theories of International Politics and Zombies

Apocalypse Edition

About this book

How international relations theory can be applied to a zombie invasion

What would happen to international politics if the dead rose from the grave and started to eat the living? Daniel Drezner's groundbreaking book answers the question that other international relations scholars have been too scared to ask. Addressing timely issues with analytical bite, Drezner looks at how well-known theories from international relations might be applied to a war with zombies. Exploring the plots of popular zombie films, songs, and books, Theories of International Politics and Zombies predicts realistic scenarios for the political stage in the face of a zombie threat and considers how valid—or how rotten—such scenarios might be.

With worldwide calamity feeling ever closer, this new apocalyptic edition includes updates throughout as well as a new chapter on postcolonial perspectives.

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INDEX

  • academic puffery. See another book
  • Adams, John Quincy, 39
  • AIDS, 51, 104. See also pandemics
  • aliens, 57. See also UFOs
  • #Alive, 66, 80
  • alliances, 39–42, 80. See also NATO
  • anarchy, 31–42, 43, 58, 124. See also post-apocalypse
  • Anna and the Apocalypse, 46
  • anthrax attacks, 4
  • anthropology, 9, 58
  • apocalypse. See post-apocalypse authoritarianism, 71, 80, 112, 120–122
  • Arab Spring, 118
  • Army of the Dead, 25, 59
  • ataxic neurodegenerative satiety deficiency syndrome, 9
  • bad zombie puns, 1–143
  • balancing, 31, 36–37
  • bears, 55
  • Belarus, 38
  • Betaal, 75
  • biology, 9
  • bioterrorism, 4, 16, 24, 95
  • Black Death, 35
  • Black Summer, 2, 69
  • botnets, 9
  • braaaaiiiiinnnnnnns, 5
  • Braindead. See Dead Alive
  • Brooks, Max, 16, 17, 22, 25, 26, 36, 50, 60, 61, 75, 96–97, 99, 105, 123, 135n32
  • buck-passing, 37
  • bureaucratic politics, 93–102
  • Byrnard, Sam, 60
  • cannibals, 55, 139n15
  • Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety, 49n
  • causal mechanisms, 24–25, 55
  • Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, US, 5, 49, 95, 101, 119
  • Chemical Weapons Convention, 50
  • Cheney, Richard, 11
  • China, 22, 35, 38, 52, 79, 82, 84, 88–90, 92
  • Chucky doll, lame...

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title Page
  3. Copyright
  4. Dedication
  5. Contents
  6. Preface
  7. Introduction … to the Undead
  8. The Zombie Literature
  9. Defining a Zombie
  10. Distracting Debates about Flesh-Eating Ghouls
  11. The Realpolitik of the Living Dead
  12. Regulating the Undead in a Liberal World Order
  13. The Social Construction of Zombies
  14. The Supergendered Politics of the Posthuman World
  15. Subalternity and the Living Dead: Postcolonial Approaches to a Posthuman World
  16. A Very Important Note about Zombie Networks
  17. Domestic Politics: Are All Zombie Politics Local?
  18. Bureaucratic Politics: The “Pulling and Hauling” of Zombies
  19. We’re Only Human: Psychological Responses to the Undead
  20. Conclusion … or So You Think
  21. Epilogue: Bringing the Brain Back In
  22. Acknowledgments to the First Edition
  23. Acknowledgments to the Revived Edition
  24. Acknowledgments to the Apocalypse Edition
  25. Notes
  26. References
  27. Index