This article deals with the increasing importance of apologizing in international relations in the
last three decades. Apologizing has many dimensions depends on who is apologizing and why.
However this article discusses the situation in which state apologizes to another state that we called
international political apology or diplomatic apology. After touching upon debates on definition
of apologizing and dimensions of apology, we claim that there are four dimensions of apology:
material or practical, normative, pragmatic, and legal. This article also tries to respond to the
question “why states apologize?”. Additionally debates on apologizing and effects of political and
legal consequences of apologizing have been pointed out. Finally we discuss impacts of apologizing
on International Relations discipline and seek to answer to what extent apologizing bring about
theoretical development in IR especially in terms of the question of state rationality.
Primary Language | Turkish |
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Journal Section | Articles |
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Publication Date | March 1, 2015 |
Published in Issue | Year 2015 |