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By Giuseppe Paparella
War seems to be the most likely outcome in the case of an alien appearance, even if such an appearance was accompanied by purely peaceful intentions.
In his new book, Daniel Drezner, renowned political commentator and Professor of Political Science at University of Chicago, applies contemporary theoretical approaches of IR to an interesting, although imaginative, case study: the threatening rise of zombies.
According to the author, each theory of IR provides different possibile outcomes: realism would suggest an eventual “live-and-let-live” arrangement between the humans and zombies; liberalism would build a counter-zombie regime and a system of collective security centred upon long-term state interests, while constructivism, with its emphasis on identity and the social construction of reality, would focus on shaping a pluralistic security community in order to prevent further zombies outbreak and, concurrently, socializing existing undead into human society..... continues
