Volume 14, Issue 1, February 2022
Contents
ABSTRACT. Hannah Arendt continues to appeal to individuals who feel trapped in the public sphere and devote themselves to understanding the painful political realities of their lifetimes. Knowing what Arendt describes as dark times, unlike the general impression, is neither rare nor extraordinary and recognizing the moment when the public sphere goes dark are prerequisites of an integrated and wholesome good life. The migration and asylum-seeking crisis that has been going on since the Arab Uprisings and now has gained a global dimension comes to ...
Çağla LÜLECİ-SULA: BORDER AND MIGRATION MANAGEMENT OF TURKEY: THE HISTORICAL EVOLUTION OF A DYNAMIC AND RELATIONAL FIELD (Turkish)ABSTRACT. International Political Sociology (IPS) emphasizes the need to bring a sociological perspective to the study of worlds politics. It enjoys an almost organic relationship with security studies. IPS broadens the ontology of security by defining it in terms of routine bureaucratic practices. Scholars of IPS also show a significant interest in migration management and border security practices. This article argues that most IPS studies tend to overlook the dynamic character of the field of border in/security by focusing extentively on the cu...
Turgay KAHVECİ: CRITICISM OF THE CLASS ANALYSIS OF EARLY POULANTZAS ON THE CONCEPTS OF “DEVALUATION” AND “ORGANIC COMPOSITION OF CAPITAL” (Turkish)ABSTRACT. It can be said that the emergence of class theories has a parallel history with the development of the Industrial Revolution and the establishment of capitalist production relations. However, this development adventure does not deny the existence of classes before capitalism from a factual point of view, does not fix them on the established order of capitalism. The essence of Marxist class theory is the idea that the dynamics of the historical process are class struggles. In this study, first of all, the class definitions of the Marxist ...
Ömer ÇONA: SILENCE AGAINST STATE TERRORISM AS A RESULT OF STATE CENTRISM IN TERRORISM RESEARCH (Turkish)ABSTRACT. In this study, it is aimed to determine the reasons for the deficiencies in the subject of state terrorism in terrorism research by bringing a critical analysis to the epistemological, ontological and methodological approaches of traditional terrorism studies. In the article, it is concluded that the reason for the researchers to ignore state terrorism and focus on violence originating from non-state actors is the state-centered attitude, and this attitude stems from six reasons. In the study, these were revealed as follows; The emergenc...
Onur ŞEN & Cansu AÇIKGÖZ: TURKEY’S SECURITIZATION TRIANGLE IN EASTERN MEDITERRANEAN: DISCOURSES, IMAGES, ACTIONS (Turkish)ABSTRACT. The scope of this study is to investigate Turkey’s policy towards Eastern Mediterranean from 2009 to 2020, following the discovery of hydrocarbon reserves in the region using the theoretical framework of Copenhagen School’s Securitization Theory. As a theory driven foreign policy analysis, this article puts forward the process of constructing an existential threat to a referent object and calling for urgent and extraordinary measures to deal with the threat. Using the theoretical framework provided by Securitization Theory, t...
Tamer KAŞIKÇI: QUESTIONING MULTILATERALISM: CONCEPTUAL RE-EVALUATION AND THE DECLINE IN THE WESTERN MULTILATERAL ORDERABSTRACT. The Western multilateral order (WMO), which was established under the leadership of the US after the Second World War, and remained unrivaled with the collapse of the USSR, has recently entered a multidimensional crisis process. This situation aggravates doubts about the future of the WMO and the development of alternative international order scenarios both in academic and political communities. This study aims to develop a theoretical conceptual basis for understanding the crisis in question. The study suggests that in order to understa...
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