A Strange Brave New World: The International Relations of Captain America

 I went to see the new Captain America movie last night in Berlin.  It is the Berlin movie festival, but, nope, this movie was not part of it.  The last Marvel movie that had this much international relations was probably Captain America: Civil War [unless one counts Black Panther 2 which had some truly dumb alliance politics] since the focus was on the UN facilitating the Sokovia Accords (another genius move by Thaddeus Ross), so I wanted to apply a bit of ye olde IR analysis to it.

 Before I get to it, just a few notes on seeing the movie here:

• 3D glasses are a Euro, and I had to ask people to find out where they were--not intuitive at all.
• the audience was super patient--even more ads than in a North American theater (including one for Bundeswehr recruitment!),  AND it was a lot of credits to get to the post-credit stinger, which was meh.
• they apparently don't clean between screenings and the previous folks were messy.   

Applying my 30 plus years of IR scholarship after the break so that I don't spoil the movie:

Bad IR Theory Comes to Marvel

I saw the new Black Panther 2: Wakanda Forever last night, and it was ok.  There is so much bad IR in this--usually, the politics of MCU movies has some kind of logic to it, even if faulty.  By the way, check out the new Politics of the MCU for some analysis--it is being delivered to bookstores and maybe comic bookstores near you right now!! 

 Spoilers will dwell beneath the break along.