Graeme A.M. Davies

g.a.m.davies@leeds.ac.uk

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?