graeme a.m. davies [email protected]. why does bond matter? popular culture influences our...
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Why does Bond Matter?
Popular culture influences our perceptions of “reality”.
The Bond movies can potentially influence our perceptions of the international security environment.
Public support for foreign policy. Public attitudes towards intelligence.
Representations of Security Threats in Bond Films
Water
http://www.youtube.com/v/bNHbRznN9Qo
Energy
Simple Solutions to Complexity
Casino Royale and Quantum of Solace: Network Centric? Old School Al Qaeda Everyone knows each
other Board Meetings at the
Opera Paper trail- capture
senior members of the organisation find the others
Al Qaeda today much more disparate- inspired by an idea.
James Bond Superhero and Confidence in Intelligence
The Bond Generation AND Confidence in MI6?
Conclusions All horribly speculative One potential source of our understanding of
international security. Perhaps a major source of information on
intelligence??? Bond can highlight (or reflect) in the public
consciousness important security related issues.
Has responded to the changing security environment since the end of the cold war.
But the solutions to these problems are necessarily simplistic- do they affect our conceptions of foreign policy?