Daniel Drezner: Theories of International Politics and Zombies
When:
Thursday, Oct 30, 2014 7:00p -
8:00p
Thursday, Oct 30, 2014 7:00p -
8:00p
Where:
Porter Square Books
25 White St
Cambridge, MA 02140
Admission:
FREE
Categories:
Lectures & Conferences
Event website:
http://www.portersquarebooks.com/event/daniel-drezner-theories-international-politics-and-zombies
Celebrate Halloween in true Cambridge fashion -- with a noted political theorist's analysis of the geopolitical implications of zombies.
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.
This newly revived edition includes substantial updates throughout as well as a new epilogue assessing the role of the zombie analogy in the public sphere.
Daniel W. Drezner is professor of international politics at the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University, a nonresident senior fellow at the Brookings Institution, and a contributor to the Washington Post. Prior to Fletcher, he taught at the University of Chicago and the University of Colorado at Boulder. He has previously held positions with Civic Education Project, the RAND Corporation and the U.S. Department of the Treasury.
Drezner has written five books, including All Politics is Global (Princeton, 2007) and Theories of International Politics and Zombies, and edited two others, including Avoiding Trivia (Brookings, 2009). He has published articles in numerous scholarly journals as well as in the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, and Foreign Affairs. Time magazine named his blog at Foreign Policy one of the 25 best in 2012.
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