Browsing by Subject "International Society"

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English School theory of international relations: Its origins, concepts, and debates
(2010) Devlen, B.; Ozdamar O.
This article introduces and evaluates the English School of international relations theories. First we discuss the School's roots, traditions, founding fathers and its ontology and methodology. Then the main arguments of the English School (ES) that constitute its core tenets and the grand questions that the founding fathers discussed are presented. In the second part, the two paths - normative and structural - taken by second generation ES scholars are discussed. This article argues that ES has a potential to be a 'grand theory' for the IR literature due to its rich theoretical background that allows both analytical and normative analyses.
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Kosovo crisis and the Russian Federation : from the perspective of theory of international society
(2011) Tokgöz, Emine
This thesis analyzes the Kosovo Crisis and the stance of the Russian Federation towards the crisis from the perspective of Theory of International Society (English School). In this analysis, the historical background of the Crisis will be given in order to understand the reasons behind it. Such understanding of the causes will be related to the stance of the Russian Federation to see how the Theory of International Society applies to the Kosovo Intervention by NATO. The stance of the Russian Federation is critical in the sense that the Balkans historically have been a Russian/Soviet sphere of influence. The Russian reactions in a post-Cold War context imply a great deal for the future of international relations, mainly signifying a drift towards more convergent norms and values held by the international society of which Russia is an important part as a great power. Justice within order is given as the description of the ongoing trend in IR.
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Security and citizenship in global South: in/securing citizens in early republican Turkey (1923-1946)
(Sage Publications Ltd., 2014-12-19) Bilgin, P.; Ince, B.
The relationship between security and citizenship is more complex than media portrayals based on binary oppositions seem to suggest (included/excluded, security/insecurity), or mainstream approaches to International Relations (IR) and security seem to acknowledge. This is particularly the case in the post-imperial and/or postcolonial contexts of global South where the transition of people from subjecthood to citizenship is better understood as a process of in/securing. For, people were secured domestically as they became citizens with access to a regime of rights and duties. People were also secured internationally as citizens of newly independent ‘nation-states’ who were protected against interventions and/or ‘indirect rule’ by the (European) International Society, whose practices were often justified on grounds of the former’s ‘failings’ in meeting the so-called ‘standards of civilization’. Yet, people were also rendered insecure as they sought to approximate and/or resist the citizen imaginaries of the newly established ‘nation-states’. The article illustrates this argument by looking at the case of Turkey in the early Republican era (1923–1946).