Global Governance and the Worst Case Scenario: Theorizing the International Relations of a Zombie Holocaust

23 March 2011, 1743 EDT

ISA 2011 featured a book panel on Daniel Drezner’s Theories of International Politics and Zombies.

Stephanie Carvin created, animated, moderated, and even presented on the roundtable. Other participants included Robert Farley (of LGM), Jeremy Youde, myself, Charli Carpenter, and, of course, Dan D. Topics included:

The results of zombie-apocalypse simulations;
The global health regime and flesh-eating ghouls;
Post-Zombie IR theory;
The laws of war meet reanimated corpses; and
The cyborg menace.

For those of you who missed the panel, we now have a podcast available. Recording quality is uneven — Rob, despite being roughly the size of a hill giant, has trouble switching his voice to any setting other than “mellow.” Charli’s presentation simply isn’t the same without the mashed-up film she played in the background. I did not include Q&A, because I lack permission from the audience to broadcast their comments. But despite these failings, the podcast is well worth your time.

Download here, or indirectly via Kittenboo.

Dan Nexon

Daniel H. Nexon is a Professor at Georgetown University, with a joint appointment in the Department of Government and the School of Foreign Service. His academic work focuses on international-relations theory, power politics, empires and hegemony, and international order. He has also written on the relationship between popular culture and world politics.

He has held fellowships at Stanford University's Center for International Security and Cooperation and at the Ohio State University's Mershon Center for International Studies. During 2009-2010 he worked in the U.S. Department of Defense as a Council on Foreign Relations International Affairs Fellow. He was the lead editor of International Studies Quarterly from 2014-2018.

He is the author of The Struggle for Power in Early Modern Europe: Religious Conflict, Dynastic Empires, and International Change (Princeton University Press, 2009), which won the International Security Studies Section (ISSS) Best Book Award for 2010, and co-author of Exit from Hegemony: The Unraveling of the American Global Order (Oxford University Press, 2020). His articles have appeared in a lot of places. He is the founder of the The Duck of Minerva, and also blogs at Lawyers, Guns and Money.