Why show a trailer for an Indian zombie movie? Two reasons: it has the word globalization in it; and it helped me make it to the Final Four of Twitter Fight Club 2013. To newbies, the first rule of #TFC13 is to talk about it. So, check out the competition of the...
Pop Culture and World Politics v5.09-11 November 2012Hobart and William Smith CollegesGeneva, NY 14456 USAWhat do zombies have to do with world politics? How might the Twilight sagas inform and...
We have gone almost a month without talking about zombies, and you all must be in need of a fix. Instead of thinking how various theories of international relations might expect us to cope with a...
Earlier this week, Tufts professor Dan Drezner tweeted that his Theory of International Politics and Zombies book has now sold more than 10,000 copies. That's a huge total by academic standards and...
I do not see the discussions about zombies as a type of new or out-of-the-box thinking. If anything, the discussions of zombies that I have noted so far are completely "in-the-box" thinking, except with a touch of geeky humor, parody, and wit that is usually lacking in the discipline. In fact, the discourse seems to consist mainly of exercises in applying existing theoretical tools to an impossible scenario for pedagogical purposes or to lampoon the generally stale pedagogy of IR theory. From my perspective, the question is not how well or fairly does this exercise treat particular...
In an public-service-minded attempt to hone our skills for the zombie outbreak due any day, Bloggingheads has embedded a zombie-detection tutorial within this diavlog:Win a copy of “Theories of International Politics and Zombies"! Hidden in this diavlog are five different images from well-known zombie features (four movies, one TV show). The first reader of this blog to correctly identify when those zombie scenes appear in the diavlog and from what movie or TV show they were taken, gets a copy of Dan Drezner's new book. For a chance to win: send an email to bloggingheadszombiehunt@gmail.com....
"Much contemporary post-prefixed critical theory seeks to re-enchant the word."Oh, I see that this is old news.Behind the times, as always, I suppose.Still, I bet there's a Zombie connection here somewhere.
Charli's post raises a number of good points about TIPZ. I've written elsewhere about how much I enjoyed Drezner's presentation about the book, but until today I hadn't confessed that I've taken my enjoyment one step further ... by assigning the book for my summer school Intro to IR course.This will be my first time teaching. I hope assigning TIPZ doesn't mean that it will be my last.Drezner's book, of course, is part of a balanced meal that includes Frieden, Lake, and Schultz's textbook and a great selection of accessible IS and Foreign Affairs articles, among other readings. But I really...
Adam Weinsten has written a delicious appraisal of my friend Dan’s newest book, Theory of International Politics and Zombies. I think he’s mostly spot-on, particularly his genealogy of Dan’s position in the discipline and his implication that TIPZ represents Dan having the last laugh on the Chicago Department of Political Science and its stale, antiquated notions of what matters in statecraft:This is the university that gave us supply-side economics, Straussian neconservativism, and David Brooks. It is, in short, a haven for very smart people who live to confound undergraduates, worship...
While I was on my working leave, Foreign Policy asked me to write a response to Dan Drezner's "Night of the Living Wonks. They published it, in abridged form, about a month ago under the title of "America's Triumph over the Zombie Horde". Predictably, they misspelled my name. What few people know, however, is that my typically skewed sense of priorities drove me to write not one, but two responses. For our readers' edification, and to mark my return to blogging, I give you my other, heretofore suppressed, take on Dan Drezner's article.Toward a Post-Zombie IRÂ Daniel Drezner deserves much...
Daniel Drezner has expounded on his seminal "Zombies and IR" blog postwith a full spread on the topic in the July/August Foreign Policy:The specter of an uprising of reanimated corpses... poses a significant challenge to interpreters of international relations and the theories they use to understand the world. If the dead begin to rise from the grave and attack the living, what thinking would -- or should -- guide the human response? How would all those theories hold up under the pressure of a zombie assault? When should humans decide that hiding and hoarding is the right idea?What follows...
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