Description
Book SynopsisA vital spur to creative thinking for scholars and an accessible introduction for students, this book will appeal to fans of these three influential shows.
Trade Review... Otherworldly Politics is undeniably one of the most lively and ebullient books on IR theory on the market today. Its premise-that televised genre fiction can reveal truths about international relations just as easily as it does about character and plot-is well founded and expertly elaborated by Dyson's spritely prose H-Net Reviews
Table of ContentsPreface
1. The International Relations of Other Worlds
2. International Relations and Televised Science Fiction Come of Age
3. The Logical Approach to International Relations
4. Constructing International Relations
5. Homogenization and Difference on Global and Galactic Scales
6. International Crises in Our World and Other Worlds
7. Robot Wars
Afterword: The Five Most Political Episodes of Star Trek, Game of Thrones, and Battlestar Galactica
Notes
Bibliography
Index
