The international politics of superheroes

Part I: X-ray visions

Liberalism: The JLA

Batman's realism

Constructivism: Between Harvey Dent and Two-Face

Red Son and Structuralism

Dr. Strange's intersectional perspective

Part II: The multiverses

Superman: Hegemony and world order

The Flash as globalization

Cyborg: The world's digital duplicate

Peter's web: International organizations

Part III: Why we fight

War: Tony Stark, Iron Man, and the military-industrial complex

Doomsday clock: Nuclear proliferation

Lex Luthor and Victor von Doom: Global inequality

The X-Men: Migrants and refugees

Climate change: Aquaman in the Anthropocene

Green Lantern: Battlefield space

Part IV: The United States: Is Captain America retiring?

Wonder Woman: The EU's soft power

Emerging countries: Welcome to Wakanda

China: From Fu Manchu to the Mandarin

Is Russia like the Hulk?

Latin America's eternal return

Bane's face mask.