"A light, breezy volume, TIPZ is a valuable primer in international relations theory for laypeople, and thank God for that-it's been a long time coming. He also shows how close the relationship between politics and popular culture is, how the latter can convey social and political critique in the most unlikely ways, and why satire remains such an important form of that critique." -Stephanie Lawson, Times Higher Education
rezner elucidates the often-arcane world of international theory in an interesting and highly amusing way. In drawing together the interpretation of popular culture and international politics, Drezner provides much food for thought-the food in this case being human flesh, of which zombies are notoriously fond. "If the dynamics of international politics have conventionally been understood in terms of the quick and the dead, Daniel Drezner invites us to consider another way of being-undead, or 'differently animated.' This ontological category emerges from the world of popular culture in which the 'zombie canon has a distinctive place. This slim book is an imaginative and very helpful way to introduce its subject-who knew international relations could be this much fun?" - Publishers Weekly He imagines a world overrun with zombies and considers the likely responses of national governments, the U.N and other international organizations, and nongovernment organizations (NGOs). comes up with an intriguing intellectual conceit to explain various schools of international political theory.
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