Foreign Policy Analysis and Critical Geopolitics: Beginning of a New Dialog?

Year 2023, , 189 - 208, 30.09.2023

Nuri Salık

https://doi.org/10.48139/aybukulliye.1344003

Abstract

This article argues that the dialog between Foreign Policy Analysis (FPA) and Critical Geopolitics (CGP) can enrich FPA, deepen FPA’s engagement with International Relations (IR) theory and present a new research agenda for FPA’s middle-range theorizing. In the study, it is put forward that the conversation between FPA and CGP can strengthen the connection between FPA and IR theory in various ways. CGP’s emphasis on agent-centrism, ability to transcend the inside-outside dichotomy, critique of natural law-like generalizations in foreign policy, preoccupation with how-possible type questions, and interdisciplinarity can all contribute to FPA and FPA’s relationship with IR. Thus, the theoretical foundations of CGP, which are largely derived from post-structuralism, have a significant potential to strengthen the connection between FPA and IR.

Keywords

International Relations, Foreign Policy Analysis, Critical Geopolitics

Dış Politika Analizi ve Eleştirel Jeopolitik: Yeni Bir Diyaloğun Başlangıcı mı?

Abstract

Bu makale, Dış Politika Analizi (DPA) ile Eleştirel Jeopolitik (EJ) arasındaki diyaloğun, DPA’yı
zenginleştireceğini, DPA’nın Uluslararası İlişkiler (Uİ) teorisiyle olan angajmanını derinleştirebileceğini ve
Dış Politika Analizinin orta düzey teorileştirmesi için yeni bir araştırma gündemi sunabileceğini savunmaktadır.
Çalışmada, DPA ile EJ arasındaki diyaloğun, DPA ile Uİ teorisi arasındaki bağlantıyı çeşitli şekillerde
güçlendirebileceği öne sürülmektedir. EJ’nin özne-merkezciliğe yaptığı vurgu, iç-dış ikiliği aşma yetisi, dış
politikadaki doğal hukuk benzeri genellemelere getirdiği eleştiri, nasıl-mümkün tarzı sorularla meşgul olması
ve disiplinler arası olmasının hepsi DPA’ya ve DPA’nın IR ile ilişkisine katkı sağlayabilir. Bu nedenle, büyük
ölçüde post-yapısalcılıktan türetilen EJ’nin teorik temelleri, DPA ile Uİ arasındaki bağlantıyı güçlendirmek
için önemli bir potansiyele sahiptir.

Keywords

Uluslararası İlişkiler, Dış Politika Analizi, Eleştirel Jeopolitik

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