Nov 27, 2012
This is pretty funny: Daniel Drezner is livetweeting Glenn Beck's new paranoid thriller Agenda 21Â
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This is pretty funny: Daniel Drezner is livetweeting Glenn Beck's new paranoid thriller Agenda 21Â
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"Just as zombies will always crave human flesh, realpolitik states will always crave a more favorable distribution of capabilities. "
(Drezner 2011)
Thanks again Daniel Drezner, for saying the things that I only scream silently in my head.Â
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p.s. also thanks for International Relations and Zombies!Â
There are many varieties of realism, but all realists start with a common assumption—that anarchy is the overarching constraint of world politics.
Drezner, Daniel (2011). Theories of International Politics and Zombies. (Kindle Locations 378-380). Princeton University Press. Kindle Edition.Â
Dan Drezner is basically my favorite person ever
His imagined conversation with IR PhD students:
Ph.D. ADVISOR: I think you should stop reading Wendt [or insert other trendy academic name here]. I don't like the way his arguments are shaping your argument.
Ph.D. STUDENT: But you don't understand!! I love him -- as much as love can be socially constructed!! He's let me see the world in a whole new way. He's the key to everything!!!
Ph.D. ADVISOR:Â You're writing a dissertation on cooperation among transnational criminal groups -- I just don't think his argument works here.
PH.D. STUDENT: How would you know which arguments work and which ones don't?! When was the last time you read someone who moved you -- the Stone Age?! I bet you've never read a piece of constructivist scholarship in your life. You don't understand me at all!!!!!
Ph.D. ADVISOR: Calm down -- I just think you might be better off if you read other people is all. This is just an intellectual crush. It will pass.Â
Ph.D. STUDENT!!! No!! Never!! I've never read anyone else who can speak to my topic like him. Wendt and I will stay together forever!! Â
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Should the Republic Survive...
Newt Gingrich, GOP debate 12/10/11: If we do survive, it will be in part because of people like Rick [Santorum] who've had the courage to tell the truth about the Iranians for a long time.
Dan Drezner, Foreign Policy: Even a nuclear-armed Iran led by the current regime of nutball theocrats cannot threaten America's survival. I get why the United States is concerned about Iran going nuclear, and I get why Israel is really concerned about Iran going nuclear. The only way that developments in Iran could threaten America's survival, however, would be if the US policy response was so hyperbolic that it ignited a general Middle East war that dragged in Russia and China. Which... come to think of it, wouldn't be entirely out of the question under a President Gingrich.
Lemkin: Yep. In line with suddenly making this "rotten discourse day" around here, this is just one more symptom, to be filed under "imaginary foreign policy | Serious Person edition." Yes, existential threats to the United States and to "civilized" life on Earth as we know it are real and do exist. Climate change is very, very high on that list and may, in fact, far outweigh any other risk currently facing either the United States or, more generally, humanity itself in a truly existential fashion. That one party is allowed to categorically deny its very existence in defiance of the preponderance of evidence and inevitably in the name of journalistic integrity or "not taking sides" will be, perhaps, marveled at by whatever future race digs through the ashes of our long forgotten society. But there is simply no way a nuclear Iran poses an existential threat to these United States at any time in the near- to mid-term future. It is the height of folly to think otherwise and utterly laughable to suggest it on the national stage in the hopes of being taken seriously. And yet one party is allowed to do so frequently and in direct contradiction to any reasonable estimation of the empirical reality of the Iranian situation specifically or Middle Eastern policy in general. And, what do you know, here we are, back at our rotten discourse again. Funny that.
Daniel Drezner writes wonderful pieces on International Politics and zombies on Foreign Policy's website.