The Dark Side of the Moon: An Ever-Fragmenting Discipline and Turkish IR in the Outer Periphery

dc.contributor.authorÖzdemir, Haluk
dc.date.accessioned2025-01-21T16:34:00Z
dc.date.available2025-01-21T16:34:00Z
dc.date.issued2024
dc.departmentKırıkkale Üniversitesi
dc.description.abstractA recent debate has emerged in the literature about a need for more global International Relations (IR), one which is truly international, to be worthy of its name. This paper outlines the multi-dimensional fragmentation in IR, which has prevented the emergence of a genuinely integrated and global discipline, and created a context in which the periphery cannot make original contributions to the core. The main purpose of this paper is to point out the major obstacles for such original contributions that emanate from the periphery itself. Aside from the general core-periphery fragmentation in the discipline, the periphery is collapsing within itself. From that perspective, the core and the periphery look more integrated, while the real division is between the periphery and the outer periphery. The outer periphery, while mostly invisible to the core, has real effects in IR practice, yet its nature and problems are not looked upon or handled by the current literature. Based on this observation, and using the Turkish example, four major problems of the outer periphery that affect the periphery and curtail its potential for original contributions are identified: (1) apathy towards western IR; (2) conspiracy theorizing; (3) chronological historicism; and (4) the outer periphery's influence on the mainstream periphery. After discussing these problems, it is concluded that the periphery can make contributions to the core only after it has helped the outer periphery solve its problems, and integration within the periphery is achieved. Only then can original contributions of the periphery to a truly international IR be possible.
dc.identifier.doi10.20991/allazimuth.1416560
dc.identifier.endpage120
dc.identifier.issn2146-7757
dc.identifier.issue1
dc.identifier.scopusqualityQ2
dc.identifier.startpage99
dc.identifier.trdizinid1255267
dc.identifier.urihttps://doi.org/10.20991/allazimuth.1416560
dc.identifier.urihttps://search.trdizin.gov.tr/tr/yayin/detay1255267
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12587/23892
dc.identifier.volume13
dc.identifier.wosWOS:001272239700005
dc.identifier.wosqualityN/A
dc.indekslendigikaynakWeb of Science
dc.indekslendigikaynakTR-Dizin
dc.language.isoen
dc.publisherCenter Foreign Policy & Peace Research
dc.relation.ispartofAll Azimuth-A Journal of Foreign Policy and Peace
dc.relation.publicationcategoryMakale - Uluslararası Hakemli Dergi - Kurum Öğretim Elemanı
dc.rightsinfo:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess
dc.snmzKA_20241229
dc.subjectGlobal IR; core; periphery; outer periphery; Turkish IR
dc.titleThe Dark Side of the Moon: An Ever-Fragmenting Discipline and Turkish IR in the Outer Periphery
dc.typeArticle

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