What would happen to international politics if zombies rose from the dead and began their brain eating festival? Daniel Drezner’s ground-breaking book answers the question that other international relations scholars have been too scared to ask. Addressing issues after careful analysis, Drezner looks at how well-known IR theories might be applied to a war with zombies. Exploring popular zombie films, songs, and books, Drezner 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. Drezner boldly lurches into the breach and stress tests the ways that different approaches to world politics would explain policy responses to the living dead.
He examines the most prominent international relations theories including realism, liberalism, …show more content…
He digs into prominent zombie films and novels, such as Night of the Living Dead and World War Z, to see where their views hold up and where they would stumble and fall. Drezner argues that by thinking about “outside-of-the-box” threats we get a grip on what former U.S. Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld famously referred to as the “unknown unknowns” in international security .While the author agrees that the statistical probability of such an event are extremely difficult to determine but generally thought to be low, he rightly points out that in comparison with vampires or witches, zombies could in theory eradicate humanity from the face of earth. The rise of the undead could thus have not only a potentially high loss of human life, but might also require significant
He examines the most prominent international relations theories including realism, liberalism, …show more content…
He digs into prominent zombie films and novels, such as Night of the Living Dead and World War Z, to see where their views hold up and where they would stumble and fall. Drezner argues that by thinking about “outside-of-the-box” threats we get a grip on what former U.S. Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld famously referred to as the “unknown unknowns” in international security .While the author agrees that the statistical probability of such an event are extremely difficult to determine but generally thought to be low, he rightly points out that in comparison with vampires or witches, zombies could in theory eradicate humanity from the face of earth. The rise of the undead could thus have not only a potentially high loss of human life, but might also require significant