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Item Open Access How not to globalise IR: ‘Centre’ and ‘periphery’ as constitutive of ‘the international’(DergiPark, 2021-06-26) Bilgin, PınarScholars who adopted de-centring as a strategy for globalising IR have embraced the notions of ‘centre’ and ‘periphery’ to highlight structural inequalities between North America and Western Europe and the rest of the world in the production of knowledge about world politics. In doing so, however, de-centring IR scholarship has portrayed the ‘periphery’ as if it is a new entrant to the ‘international’. Yet, such a presumption is not in the spirit of globalising IR, which views the periphery as the ‘constitutive outside’. By re-visiting the 1970s’ centre-periphery approaches, the paper highlights the limitations of the de-centring approaches insofar as they have not always been attentive to the critical concerns of earlier theorisations about ‘centre’ and ‘periphery’, and underscores the need for studying the periphery as ‘constitutive outside’. The periphery is ‘outside’ by virtue of having been left out of those mainstream narratives that the centre tells about the international; it is also ‘constitutive’ because those ideas, practices, and institutions that are typically ascribed to the ‘centre’ have been co-constituted by centre and periphery in toto.Item Open Access International relatives of Temel : is appropriation possible for Temel jokes?(2007) Gümüş, Hami İnanTemel as a fictional joke character is perceived by the public with an emphasis on his local identity. Yet, the fact that he is geographically, politically and culturally peripheral displays a similarity with the various international examples of a joke type which is called "stupid jokes" in this article. Temel jokes have the features that are intrinsic to stupid jokes of industrial societies as can be seen in the features like being peripheral, to have the ability to reconcile with the facts of the social agenda and social change, and increasing interaction with stupid jokes of other cultures parallel to progressive industrialization in Turkey. Taking these features as a basis for the discussion whether appropriation is possible for Temel jokes, the article concludes with an affirmative answer.Item Open Access Methodological poverty and disciplinary underdevelopment in IR(Center for Foreign Policy and Peace Research, 2019) Aydınlı, ErselThis article begins with the premise that the International Relations (IR) disciplinary community in Turkey has a problem: namely, it has failed to appreciate the importance of methodology. Rather, efforts to develop the local discipline and, subsequently, training within IR departments, have both emphasized ‘theory’, arguing that it constitutes the best route of elevating local disciplinary scholarship and enabling true dialogue with the core discipline. This article argues that, unfortunately, this focus has at best succeeded in encouraging the importation and assimilation of outside theories, and at worst, has helped to create a shell of a local discipline—ever increasing in size, but not in substance. It goes on to argue that only through development of students’ and scholars’ methodological competence can Turkish IR gain greater value in the global IR scholarly community, because methodology, its tools and approaches and the expertise needed to apply them in a competent and skilled manner, constitutes the universal common language of an academic discipline, and thus allows for genuine discussions and debates within a disciplinary communityItem Open Access The politics of studying securitization? the Copenhagen School in Turkey(Sage Publications Ltd., 2011) Bilgin, P.Copenhagen School securitization theory has made significant inroads into the study of security in Western Europe. In recent years, it has also begun to gain a presence elsewhere. This is somewhat unanticipated. Given the worldwide prevalence of mainstream approaches to security, the nature of peripheral international relations, and the Western European origins and focus of the theory, there is no obvious reason to expect securitization theory to have a significant presence outside Western Europe. Adopting a reflexive notion of theory allows, the article argues, inquiry into the politics of studying security, which in turn reveals how the Western European origins and focus of securitization theory may be a factor enhancing its potential for adoption by others depending on the historico-political context. Focusing on the case of Turkey, the article locates the security literature of that country in the context of debates on accession to the European Union and highlights how securitization theory is utilized by Turkey's authors as a 'Western European approach' to security.Item Open Access Seeing modernization through the eyes of periphery: a narratological analysis of Nazım Hikmet ran’s Memleketimden İnsan Manzaraları(2022-08) Türközü, Ece BüşraThis thesis examines the narratological structure and characteristics of Nazım Hikmet Ran’s Memleketimden İnsan Manzaraları (Human Landscapes From My Country). The poem is a critique of Turkish modernization followed by the foundation of the Republic due to its ignorance towards the periphery, mainly, the peasants. Not only the events narrated in the text, but also how they are narrated embodies the ideology of the poem. The thesis aims at demonstrating the use of narratology in political and cultural readings not being limited to superficial theme analysis. Theoretically based on Mieke Bal’s practice of narratology in cultural readings, this thesis explores the possible ways of analyzing the narratology of the text in a way supporting Hikmet’s concern in writing the poem. The poem consists of five books and the thesis focuses on each of them considering a different theme and a different kind of analysis, including the change in the narrator-focalizor, the use of description, the space in relation to characters, the movie-like features of the text, and the snapshot effect created by the narration. The thesis also aims at taking the notion of self-narrative into the scope of analysis of narratology and use it in a way to offer a more individual-focused alternative for reading a non-western modernity to Gregory Jusdanis’ model of belatedness and Daryush Shayegan’s model of disfiguration.Item Open Access Theory importation and the death of homegrown disciplinary potential: an autopsy of Turkish IR(Routledge, 2023-09-14) Aydınlı, ErselA primary premise of the Global IR initiative is its emphasis on world history as a basis for global IR theorising. While non-Western contributions are thus critical, periphery IR disciplinary communities operate under the dominance and homogenising effect of core IR theories based on Western history and intellectual traditions. An import-dependent culture takes over periphery disciplinary communities, neutralising their potential for original IR production and theory creation. This study explores these assumptions by focusing on the case of Turkish IR; providing an evaluation of its evolution and current status, and suggesting lessons it might have for other periphery communities and the future of Global IR overall. It offers a longitudinal qualitative investigation of Turkish IR scholars’ perceptions of their community’s evolution. They suggest that Turkish IR has become a dependent consumer of core IR theory and devalued its history base, leaving it bifurcated between a minority ‘core-of-the-periphery’ who operate as ‘compradors’, copying and marketing global core knowledge, and a majority ‘periphery-of-the-periphery’, who remain voiceless, disconnected and resentful. Ultimately, the local community is unable to offer original contributions to the globalisation of IR, and the global IR movement is structurally diminished through the exclusion of large portions of the scholarly community.