JUTTA WELDES is a lecturer in International Relations at the University of Bristol. She is the author of Constructing National Interests: The United States and the Cuban Missile Crisis (Minnesota, 1999) and co-editor of Cultures of Insecurity: States, Communities, and the Production of Danger (Minnesota, 1999). She has published Going Cultural: Star Trek, State Action, and Popular Culture (Millennium, 1999) and Globalization is Science Fiction (Millennium, 2001), as well as other articles and book chapters on international relations theory and US foreign policy.

• Popular Culture, Science Fiction, and World Politics: Exploring Intertextual Relations; J.Weldes World Politics in Outer Space 'To know him was to love him. Not to know him was to love him from afar': Diplomacy in Star Trek; I.B.Neumann Bumpy Space: Imperialism and Resistance in Star Trek: The Next Generation; N.Inayatullah Aliens Among Us Aliens, Alien Nations, and Alienation in American Political Economy and Popular Culture; R.D.Lipschutz Demon Diasporas: Confronting the Other and the Other Worldly in Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Angel; P.Molloy Forbidden Places, Tempting Spaces and the Politics of Desire: On Stalker and Beyond; A.A.Hozic Future Worlds, Alternative Imaginings Representation is Futile? American Anti-Collectivism and the Borg; P.Jackson & D.Nexon The Problem of the 'World and Beyond': Encountering 'the Other' in Science Fiction; G.Whitehall Feminist Futures: Science Fiction, Utopia, and the Art of Possibilities in World Politics

JUTTA WELDES is a lecturer in International Relations at the University of Bristol. She is the author of Constructing National Interests: The United States and the Cuban Missile Crisis (Minnesota, 1999) and co-editor of Cultures of Insecurity: States, Communities, and the Production of Danger (Minnesota, 1999). She has published Going Cultural: Star Trek, State Action, and Popular Culture (Millennium, 1999) and Globalization is Science Fiction (Millennium, 2001), as well as other articles and book chapters on international relations theory and US foreign policy.

• Popular Culture, Science Fiction, and World Politics: Exploring Intertextual Relations; J.Weldes World Politics in Outer Space 'To know him was to love him. Not to know him was to love him from afar': Diplomacy in Star Trek; I.B.Neumann Bumpy Space: Imperialism and Resistance in Star Trek: The Next Generation; N.Inayatullah Aliens Among Us Aliens, Alien Nations, and Alienation in American Political Economy and Popular Culture; R.D.Lipschutz Demon Diasporas: Confronting the Other and the Other Worldly in Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Angel; P.Molloy Forbidden Places, Tempting Spaces and the Politics of Desire: On Stalker and Beyond; A.A.Hozic Future Worlds, Alternative Imaginings Representation is Futile? American Anti-Collectivism and the Borg; P.Jackson & D.Nexon The Problem of the 'World and Beyond': Encountering 'the Other' in Science Fiction; G.Whitehall Feminist Futures: Science Fiction, Utopia, and the Art of Possibilities in World Politics

JUTTA WELDES is a lecturer in International Relations at the University of Bristol. She is the author of Constructing National Interests: The United States and the Cuban Missile Crisis (Minnesota, 1999) and co-editor of Cultures of Insecurity: States, Communities, and the Production of Danger (Minnesota, 1999). She has published Going Cultural: Star Trek, State Action, and Popular Culture (Millennium, 1999) and Globalization is Science Fiction (Millennium, 2001), as well as other articles and book chapters on international relations theory and US foreign policy.

• Popular Culture, Science Fiction, and World Politics: Exploring Intertextual Relations; J.Weldes World Politics in Outer Space 'To know him was to love him. Not to know him was to love him from afar': Diplomacy in Star Trek; I.B.Neumann Bumpy Space: Imperialism and Resistance in Star Trek: The Next Generation; N.Inayatullah Aliens Among Us Aliens, Alien Nations, and Alienation in American Political Economy and Popular Culture; R.D.Lipschutz Demon Diasporas: Confronting the Other and the Other Worldly in Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Angel; P.Molloy Forbidden Places, Tempting Spaces and the Politics of Desire: On Stalker and Beyond; A.A.Hozic Future Worlds, Alternative Imaginings Representation is Futile? American Anti-Collectivism and the Borg; P.Jackson & D.Nexon The Problem of the 'World and Beyond': Encountering 'the Other' in Science Fiction; G.Whitehall Feminist Futures: Science Fiction, Utopia, and the Art of Possibilities in World Politics