«What is the point of spending time writing a book about Game of Thrones? Is it not an idle task? Are there no more important issues to pay attention to in the social and political drama in which we are immersed? To answer these questions, you should ask yourself the reasons for the success of both the books and the different seasons of the series. In principle, it might seem that the key to success is simply an effective combination of intrigues, violence, adventures and sex inscribed in a scenario of romantic resonances that constitutes an infallible formula. However, the key to success goes much further: the scenario of destruction of the civil and political order presented by the series, as well as the fight to the death for the conquest of the Iron Throne by a handful of kingdoms, with a Civilizational collapse at the gates, connects directly with a certain widespread pessimism and a certain dark awareness of the end of our western civilization as we know it. As in Game of Thrones, we ourselves face a situation of incomparable political complexity, and especially we feel the urgent need to have to do something to change this disaster and start doing it now. »
In this brilliant work, a large group of analysts, political scientists, activists and politicians again dissects the popular Game of Thrones series with a clear objective; develop an original political science course whose reading contributes to the analysis of that complex board that constitutes the policy in which we live immersed.