The Final Frontier: International Relations and Politics Through Star Trek and Star Wars - Paperback

by Joel R. Campbell (Author), Lee Trepanier (Editor), Gigi Gokcek (Author)

The proposed book uses the Star Trek television/movie and Star Wars movie series to explain key international relations (IR) concepts and theories. It begins with an overview of the importance of science fiction in literature and film/television. It then presents the development of the Star Trek and Star Wars franchises, and discusses how their progression through time has illustrated key IR theories and concepts. As a bonus, it compares the two franchises to another recent science fiction franchise used to teach IR (Battlestar Galactica).

Author Biography

Joel R. Campbell is associate professor of political science at Troy University.

Gigi Gokcek is associate professor of political science at Dominican University of California.