Fortunately, there are key differences between what happens with the living dead and what the rest of 2020 will look like. This would seem to bode ill for human civilization: With a few exceptions, the zombie genre always starts with civilization and ends with a post-apocalyptic hellscape. Unfortunately, the zombie genre can explain more about the first phase of the coronavirus pandemic than anyone should be comfortable with. So when Foreign Policy’s editors asked what the zombie genre tells us about this crisis, it seemed appropriate to return to where it all began. That led to two editions, a spinoff article, and a TEDx Talk. The first glimmer of Theories of International Politics and Zombies appeared as a Foreign Policy blog post more than a decade ago. I should know, since I wrote an international relations textbook based on that premise. A week-long series on horror and folklore around the world that examines what popular stories and tropes can tell us about a society’s greatest fears, grimmest challenges, and darkest fantasies.
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