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The proposed book uses the Star Trek television/movie and Star Wars
movie series to explain key international relations (IR) concepts
and theories. It begins with an overview of the importance of
science fiction in literature and film/television. It then presents
the development of the Star Trek and Star Wars franchises, and
discusses how their progression through time has illustrated key IR
theories and concepts. As a bonus, it compares the two franchises
to another recent science fiction franchise used to teach IR
(Battlestar Galactica).
This textbook examines non-traditional forms of security and
expands the notion of security to include non-state actors and
non-human actors. Proposing an expansive view of non-traditional
forms of security that go beyond traditionally recognized issues of
threats to state and national territory, this new textbook rests on
the following premises: traditional state-centered threats, such as
nuclear proliferation and espionage, remain a concern; old and new
threats combine and create interlocking puzzles-a feature of wicked
problems and wicked messes; because of the global erosion of
borders, new developments of unconventional insecurity interact in
ways that frustrate traditional conceptual definitions, conceptual
maps, and national policies; unconventional security challenges
which have traditionally been seen as "low politics" or "soft"
issues are now being recognized as "hard security" challenges in
the twenty-first century; many of the so-called "new" threats
detailed here are in fact very old: diseases, gender violence, food
insecurity, under-development, and crime are all traditional
security threats, but deeply modified today by globalization. The
chapters offer local and global examples and engage with various
theoretical approaches to help readers see the bigger picture.
Solutions are also suggested to these problems. Each chapter
contains discussion questions to help readers understand the key
points and facilitate class discussion. This book will be of great
interest to students of international security studies, human
security, global politics, and international relations.
The proposed book uses the Star Trek television/movie and Star Wars
movie series to explain key international relations (IR) concepts
and theories. It begins with an overview of the importance of
science fiction in literature and film/television. It then presents
the development of the Star Trek and Star Wars franchises, and
discusses how their progression through time has illustrated key IR
theories and concepts. As a bonus, it compares the two franchises
to another recent science fiction franchise used to teach IR
(Battlestar Galactica).
This textbook examines non-traditional forms of security and
expands the notion of security to include non-state actors and
non-human actors. Proposing an expansive view of non-traditional
forms of security that go beyond traditionally recognized issues of
threats to state and national territory, this new textbook rests on
the following premises: traditional state-centered threats, such as
nuclear proliferation and espionage, remain a concern; old and new
threats combine and create interlocking puzzles-a feature of wicked
problems and wicked messes; because of the global erosion of
borders, new developments of unconventional insecurity interact in
ways that frustrate traditional conceptual definitions, conceptual
maps, and national policies; unconventional security challenges
which have traditionally been seen as "low politics" or "soft"
issues are now being recognized as "hard security" challenges in
the twenty-first century; many of the so-called "new" threats
detailed here are in fact very old: diseases, gender violence, food
insecurity, under-development, and crime are all traditional
security threats, but deeply modified today by globalization. The
chapters offer local and global examples and engage with various
theoretical approaches to help readers see the bigger picture.
Solutions are also suggested to these problems. Each chapter
contains discussion questions to help readers understand the key
points and facilitate class discussion. This book will be of great
interest to students of international security studies, human
security, global politics, and international relations.
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