Multi-level Governance as Political Theory

Abstract

In the 2013 film, Snowpiercer, the tiny portion of humanity remaining after a geo-engineering incident triggers a global ice age are confined to a train circumnavigating the earth once a year. Korean director Bong Joonho’s adaptation of the 1982 French graphic novel, Le Transperceneige, can easily be seen, as the comic can be read, as an allegory. But is it an allegory of potential catastrophe – a return to a Hobbesian political state – or is it an allegory of a current political condition? A case for both readings can be readily made. Like the standard version of Thomas Hobbes’s Leviathan (1651),