All Azimuth Debate: Gradual Reform or Revolution? Pathways to Global IR

Year 2025, Volume: 14 Issue: 2

Ayşe Zarakol , Ersel Aydınlı

https://doi.org/10.20991/allazimuth.1634448

Abstract

This forum article is based on the All Azimuth Debate held at Bilkent University on 3 October 2024. The event was organized by the Center for Foreign Policy and Peace Research in cooperation with Bilkent University’s Department of International Relations. The debate was moderated by Dr. Seçkin Köstem. The forum article demonstrates the scholarly exchange between Dr. Ayşe Zarakol and Dr. Ersel Aydınlı based on the answers that they gave to Dr. Seçkin Köstem’s questions on Global International Relations (IR). This forum article features two leading scholars’ perspectives regarding the definition of Global IR, the main actors and venues for Global IR, the role of English language as the dominant academic language, the essentialism/parochialism trap and pathways for a stronger global representation for the discipline of IR.

Keywords

Global IR, Global South, globalization, theory, language

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