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IR Theory and ‘Game of Thrones’ Are Both Fantasies
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<blockquote data-quote="cheryl" data-source="post: 1157" data-attributes="member: 1"><p><a href="https://foreignpolicy.com/2019/05/23/ir-theory-and-game-of-thrones-are-both-fantasies/" target="_blank"><strong>IR Theory and ‘Game of Thrones’ Are Both Fantasies - Foreign Policy</strong></a></p><p></p><p><strong>They draw on the same narrow slice of European history—and get it wrong anyway.</strong></p><p></p><p>Since the start of the series, <em>Game of Thrones</em> has been catnip for scholars of world politics and foreign policy.</p><p></p><p>They eagerly <a href="https://www.vox.com/culture/2019/4/15/18311189/game-of-thrones-season-8-episode-1-recap-war" target="_blank">applied</a> their talents and theories to <a href="https://www.vox.com/culture/2017/8/28/16205048/game-of-thrones-season-7-cersei-daenerys-jon-snow" target="_blank">ranking</a> each character’s chances of winning the throne—<a href="https://mashable.com/2017/07/10/game-of-thrones-how-ends-diplomat-medieval-war-experts-economists-politics/" target="_blank">repeatedly</a>. There are <a href="https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/15512169.2017.1409631" target="_blank">scholarly journal articles</a> about how to use a simulation based on the show to teach international relations theory. Rand Corp. has <a href="https://www.rand.org/blog/2017/08/game-of-thrones-dragons-nuclear-weapons-and-winning.html" target="_blank">compared</a> the show’s dragons to nuclear weapons. A <em>Foreign Affairs</em> article <a href="https://www.foreignaffairs.com/articles/2012-03-29/game-thrones-theory" target="_blank">argued</a> that, despite its use of violence, the show was no realist text but <em>“</em>a critique of the myopic focus on national security over the needs of individuals and the collective good.” (The author cited as evidence Daenerys Targaryen’s concern for civilians, a point that <a href="https://www.theatlantic.com/entertainment/archive/2019/05/real-history-explains-game-thrones-latest-twist/589357/" target="_blank">didn’t fare so well</a>.)</p><p></p><p>There’s a good reason for this. It would be hard to imagine a fantasy world better concocted to appeal to international relations scholars than that of Westeros, the setting of <em>Game of Thrones</em>. After all, in many ways, international relations theory and Westeros are cousins since they descend from the same source material: bad European history.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="cheryl, post: 1157, member: 1"] [URL='https://foreignpolicy.com/2019/05/23/ir-theory-and-game-of-thrones-are-both-fantasies/'][B]IR Theory and ‘Game of Thrones’ Are Both Fantasies - Foreign Policy[/B][/URL] [B]They draw on the same narrow slice of European history—and get it wrong anyway.[/B] Since the start of the series, [I]Game of Thrones[/I] has been catnip for scholars of world politics and foreign policy. They eagerly [URL='https://www.vox.com/culture/2019/4/15/18311189/game-of-thrones-season-8-episode-1-recap-war']applied[/URL] their talents and theories to [URL='https://www.vox.com/culture/2017/8/28/16205048/game-of-thrones-season-7-cersei-daenerys-jon-snow']ranking[/URL] each character’s chances of winning the throne—[URL='https://mashable.com/2017/07/10/game-of-thrones-how-ends-diplomat-medieval-war-experts-economists-politics/']repeatedly[/URL]. There are [URL='https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/15512169.2017.1409631']scholarly journal articles[/URL] about how to use a simulation based on the show to teach international relations theory. Rand Corp. has [URL='https://www.rand.org/blog/2017/08/game-of-thrones-dragons-nuclear-weapons-and-winning.html']compared[/URL] the show’s dragons to nuclear weapons. A [I]Foreign Affairs[/I] article [URL='https://www.foreignaffairs.com/articles/2012-03-29/game-thrones-theory']argued[/URL] that, despite its use of violence, the show was no realist text but [I]“[/I]a critique of the myopic focus on national security over the needs of individuals and the collective good.” (The author cited as evidence Daenerys Targaryen’s concern for civilians, a point that [URL='https://www.theatlantic.com/entertainment/archive/2019/05/real-history-explains-game-thrones-latest-twist/589357/']didn’t fare so well[/URL].) There’s a good reason for this. It would be hard to imagine a fantasy world better concocted to appeal to international relations scholars than that of Westeros, the setting of [I]Game of Thrones[/I]. After all, in many ways, international relations theory and Westeros are cousins since they descend from the same source material: bad European history. [/QUOTE]
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