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.
- 260 pages
- English
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- Available on iOS & Android
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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
- Cover
- Title Page
- Copyright
- Dedication
- Contents
- Preface
- Introduction … to the Undead
- The Zombie Literature
- Defining a Zombie
- Distracting Debates about Flesh-Eating Ghouls
- The Realpolitik of the Living Dead
- Regulating the Undead in a Liberal World Order
- The Social Construction of Zombies
- The Supergendered Politics of the Posthuman World
- Subalternity and the Living Dead: Postcolonial Approaches to a Posthuman World
- A Very Important Note about Zombie Networks
- Domestic Politics: Are All Zombie Politics Local?
- Bureaucratic Politics: The “Pulling and Hauling” of Zombies
- We’re Only Human: Psychological Responses to the Undead
- Conclusion … or So You Think
- Epilogue: Bringing the Brain Back In
- Acknowledgments to the First Edition
- Acknowledgments to the Revived Edition
- Acknowledgments to the Apocalypse Edition
- Notes
- References
- Index
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