28 Weeks Later By Daniel W. Drezner

Terrorist attacks, cyber terrorism, natural disaster and the spread of influenza can occur at any moment. A movie called “28 Weeks Later” portrays the tragedy of a zombie epidemic and how the US military dealt with the resulting crisis. By analyzing the movie’s political paradigms which are explained in “Theories of International Politics and Zombies” by Daniel W. Drezner, one can determine the best strategy to tackle the zombie outbreak. Examining the flaws of the US military and the actions committed by significant characters in the movie, I would suggest that a successful approach will require strong security, cooperation with various fields, and consistent ideology preferably neo-conservatism. First, the US military was weak in security
There was only the US army controlling the district. For example, if armies from NATO have also been involved, they could have suggested the necessity to install security cameras everywhere and implement sensors between the boundary of the safe district and the outside so that the US soldiers’ careless oversight to miss children sneaking out from the safety zone would not have occurred. It is clear that the US military was only thinking about reconstructing the city of London and did not expect that the zombie outbreak would happen again. With the support from other states including an expeditionary force and monetary supplies, London has a faster chance of recovering from the last outbreak. For instance, when 3.11 occurred in Japan in 2011, Japanese government could promote the recovering process faster in Tohoku as numerous states around Japan donated money and sent armies to Japan. Furthermore, the US military was unilateral in the sense that they only considered male opinions when feminism ideas could have been a solution. Scarlet, a military scientist, is the only person who is skeptical about the re-emergence of zombies. She keeps asking a commander what would happen if the apocalypse happens again and urges the necessity to run the blood test as Alice has a special blood which is capable of preventing the onset of zombie virus. However, no body listen to her, and she just reduces her voice. If she could have carried out the experiment and created an injection, most of the people might have been saved. As the US military was dominated by masculinity, they should have incorporated the idea of