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Dan Drezner's Theories Of International Politics And Zombies

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In Theories of International Politics and Zombies, Dan Drezner applies fundamental international relations theories in the case of a hypothetical event of a zombie uprising. Drezner focuses on the how the different theories of international relations would approach the issue of zombies. Drezner tackles the case of the walking dead mainly using international relation theories: realism, liberalism, and social constructivism.
Drezner starts with the realism, or realpolitik, theory, and describes how according to realism, the arrival of zombies would not affect the fundamental workings of global politics. Drezner first establishes that “all realists start with a common assumption—that anarchy is the overarching constraint of world politics,” meaning

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