Ta-Nehisi Coates is the writer of the current Black Panther series from Marvel Comics. The story focuses on an unfolding revolution that sees some Wakandans begin to question the Black Panther monarchy that has ruled Wakanda for generations.

from "Everything you need to know about the Black Panther", David Betancourt and Shelly Tan, Feb. 12, WaPo at: https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/2018/entertainment/black-panther...

"The foreign policy of 'Black Panther'", Daniel Drezner (professor of international relations at Tufts University and a resident scholar at the Brookings Institution), WaPo today:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/posteverything/wp/2018/02/28/a-very-...

(WARNING: PLOT SPOILERS)

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I particularly enjoyed it because foreign policy questions were at the crux of the film’s plot. To sum up: Wakanda is a technologically sophisticated country that has pursued a grand strategy of isolationism. It purposefully shields knowledge about its power and capabilities from the outside world, exploiting stereotypes and prejudices about sub-Saharan Africa to sustain its subterfuge. At the start of the film, many of Wakanda’s power brokers are fine with this, though some have their doubts.

The plot is driven by a contender to the throne who wants to use Wakanda’s technology to create a vast empire upon which “the sun will never set.” This expansionist policy is rejected, but by the end of the film there is a change in the country’s grand strategy. In one of the closing scenes, Wakanda’s leader T’Challa announces at the United Nations that the country will share its technology with the rest of the world.

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