georgetown and hp collide; or, virginia's international relations professor is serious win

[virginia_bell]

Oh man. A few minutes ago, I was looking up books to buy for the spring semester. I got to GOVT-006 International Relations -- and sandwiched between the titles like Global Political Economy and International Politics was this little gem.

I had to run it through a Google search just to make sure that my eyes weren't deceiving me. I mean, Harry

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[shinraisei]

Okay. So---

I'll have to be in DC sometime in the future and willmust sneak into this class.

You know, to me the Ministry of Magic reminded me more of the League of Nations. How?

Well, Dumbledore pleading with the Ministry that the threat is real, Voldemort is back and killing Muggles is kinda similar to:

Fmr. Ethiopian Emperor Haile Selassie I pleading to the League of Nations that Italian Dicator Benito Mussolini is killing his people and invading the country and he needs help(the Second Italo-Abyssinian War late 1930 to the end of WWII-ish) most notably, the Italians used mustard gas on the Ethiopians. The League of Nations practically sat around and did nothing out of fear of Mussolini and what he could do to them granted even though, apparently, they had the forces necessary to fight him back.

Or this just could be me D:...(Or it could be likened to Canadian Peacekeeper Roméo Dallaire pleading with the UN about Rwanda.)

hey, I'm all for a UMN--United Magical Nations sitting around and such. Yay internationalismy stuff

EDIT Oh! I told my friend about the book and turns out I've seen it before (she got it for her bday). Hmm....I'll have to steal it sometime XD

[virginia_bell]

Ooh, that's a very nice comparison -- that, or just governments in general refusing to acknowledge blatantly obvious things. :/

Hee, I'll be sure to report back to LJ with any interesting excerpts or class discussions based on the book. I can't wait to read it!