POL208Y1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: There Are Known Knowns, Collective Action, Liberal Internationalism
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Zombies being used as a metaphor for the unknown unknowns as referred to by ronald rumsfeld. The unknown players in the world system, international security that can pose catastrophic damage to society/ a given country. Thucydides even explored the zombie issue a plague that showed itself to be quite different from ordinary dieseases would lead to general lawlessness and chaos. Why we need to be concerned with the zombie issues . As demonstrated in recent years- low probability events can elicit hyperbolic policy responses if the predicted effects are severe pg. There are multiple paradigms of international relations that can answer this question quite differently. Scholars and policy makers used deductive reasoning to explain the complex world. Events that are similar to attacks on the undead. A transnational phenomena, threat that does not see borders, ethnicities, people etc. Do not possess attributes of other human identities. There is no answer on how long it can exist before decomposing, being overcome.
