Explore commentary about border walls, why they have proliferated, and their effectiveness: Article: Borders and Walls: Do Barriers Deter Unau.. | migrationpolicy.org | Full article: The return of the border walls (tandfonline.com) | Article: The World Is Witnessing a Rapid Prolifera.. | migrationpolicy.org | https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/podcasts/podcast-borders-belonging/border-walls/
Read Blanton’s writing on how to ‘bring the undead’ into international politics classrooms: Zombies and International Relations: A Simple Guide for Bringing the Undead into Your Classroom* | International Studies Perspectives | Oxford Academic (oup.com)
Read Drezner’s Theories of International Politics and Zombies from Princeton University Press: Theories of International Politics and Zombies | Princeton University Press
Fishel and Wilcox discuss the zombie in international politics, viewed specifically through lenses of racialization and fear of the Other: Politics of the Living Dead: Race and Exceptionalism in the Apocalypse - Stefanie Fishel, Lauren Wilcox, 2017 (sagepub.com)
Samuel Huntington’s 1993 article ‘The Clash of Civilizations?’ published by Foreign Affairs: https://www.foreignaffairs.com/articles/united-states/1993-06-01/clash-civilizations
Read The Clash at 20, a series of essays asking, ‘What did Samuel P. Huntington’s “The Clash of Civilizations?” get right and wrong, and how does it look two decades later?’ published by Foreign Affairs: https://www.foreignaffairs.com/world/clash-20 / also accessible as a single PDF at https://is.muni.cz/el/1423/jaro2017/BSS185/um/Week_2_Clash_of_Civilizations_at_20_Foreign_Affairs.pdf
Read Giacomo Chiozza’s article ‘Is There a Clash of Civilizations? Evidence from Patterns of International Conflict Involvement, 1946-97’: https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/0022343302039006004
Read Edward Said’s critique of The Clash of Civilizations, entitled ‘The Clash of Ignorance’: The Clash of Ignorance | The Nation
Read Katherine Bullocks’ article in The Conversation entitled ‘Ukraine war shows it’s time to do away with the racist ‘Clash of Civilizations’ theory: https://theconversation.com/ukraine-war-shows-its-time-to-do-away-with-the-racist-clash-of-civilizations-theory-178297
An open access copy of the book ‘Scriptures, Shrines, Scapegoats, and World Politics: Religious Sources of Conflict and Cooperation in the Modern Era’ by Zeev Maoz and Errol A. Henderson: https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.3998/mpub.11353856
The Institute for Economics and Peace 2014 report Five Key Questions Answered on the Link Between Peace and Religion: www.economicsandpeace.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/Peace-and-Religion-Report.pdf
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s TED Talk, ‘The Danger of a Single Story’: https://youtu.be/WHm7aBWoheY
Nikki Sanchez’s TED Talk, ‘Decolonization Is for Everyone’: https://youtu.be/QP9x1NnCWNY
Explore more about the different meanings of decolonization: https://theconversation.com/explainer-what-is-decolonisation-131455
A video on the United Nations’ relationship to decolonization, past to present: https://www.un.org/dppa/decolonization
How the UN engages with indigenous peoples: https://www.un.org/en/fight-racism/vulnerable-groups/indigenous-peoples
