31 Jan Dan Drezner Provides the Quote of the Day
31.01.11
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From his new book on Zombies and international relations …
Realists would advocate noninterference in how zombie states treated their own living and undead populations. In the end, realists would conclude that there would be little intrinsic difference between human states and zombie states. Human beings have an innate lust for power in the realist paradigm; zombies have an innate lust for human flesh. Both are scarce resources.
Anyone in OJ interested in writing an “International Law & Zombies” sequel? I would defenetly buy that book!
I think the Borg raise more interesting questions of international law, particularly of universal rights. See this review in the TLS, Star Trek and the Death of Cultural Relativism. One of these days I’ll stick it up as its own post …
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I think I know who zombies really are but won’t say. I think that’s the best policy for everyone.