Drezner's Response To The Zombie Outbreak

When zombies took over Great Britain in the film 28 Weeks Later, individuals, the military, and NATO were forced to make quick decisions to avert crisis. Some of the decisions aligned with how scholar Daniel Drezner would have predicted people to react to a zombie outbreak in his book Theories of International Politics and Zombies. The humans responded to the zombie outbreak with a mixture of realist and neoconservative elements. At times, the humans attempted to incorporate liberalism into their strategy, but the ideology failed due to organizational problems and inadequate bureaucratic politics. One of these organizational failures was a dismissive attitude towards women who provided outbreak response suggestions. A future zombie outbreak response would benefit from a more strongly feminist approach that features a flatter organizational
For example, Don abandoned his wife in the makeshift shelter house and escaped through the window, knowing that the zombies in the cottage could easily infect her. Later, when Tammy encountered Don after he became a zombie, she killed him to maximize her own security. In the moment, she cared more about her own safety than her lifelong bond with her father or that a cure for the infestation might exist soon and heal him. Security was Don and Tammy’s primary concern, as it is for primary actors in an anarchic world under the realist paradigm. Anarchy becomes so powerful that actors are forced to prioritize maximizing security (Drezner, 38). Indeed, both of the aforementioned movie situations involved a lack of overarching authority, as humans were forced to make fatal and quick survival decisions for themselves without the benefit of a ruling body or institution to consult. The anarchic situations in which humans oftentimes found themselves during the movie reveal the humans’ realist