Sınırlılığa Meydan Okumaktan Meydan Okumanın Sınırlığına: Türkiye’deki Üst Düzey Uluslararası İlişkiler Dergilerinde Çevreyi Tartışmak

Abstract

Uluslararası çevre siyaseti eleştirel bir yaklaşımdan yoksundur. Uluslararası İlişkiler disiplininde, çevre ile ilgili meselelerin uzun bir süredir ikincil planda ele alınmaktadır. Çevre siyaseti ile ilgili sınırlı sayıdaki bilimsel çalışmada, neorealizm ve neoliberalizm gibi ana akım yaklaşımlardan yararlanılmaktadır. Bu yaklaşımlar, uluslararası sisteme ilişkin olan yapısal eşitsizlikleri sorgulamada başarısız olmaktadır. Bu bağlamda, çalışma Türkiye’deki Uluslararası İlişkiler yazınının çevre meselelerini nasıl ele aldığını incelemektedir. Nitel içerik analizinin kullanıldığı bu araştırmada, 2004-2024 yılları arasında Türkiye’deki üst düzey Uİ dergilerinde yayınlanan çevre konularını inceleyen makaleler ele alınmıştır. Dâhil etme ve dışlama kriterlerinin uygulanmasının ardından uygun makaleler, MAXQDA yazılımı ile kodlanmış ve tematik olarak analiz edilmiştir. Bulgular, çevre meselelerini ele alan çok sayıda çalışmanın devlet-merkezli analiz çerçevesi kullandığını ve eleştirel yaklaşımlarla sınırlı bir ilişkide olduğunu ortaya çıkarmıştır. Türkiye örneğinde, çevre siyaseti alanındaki Uİ çalışmaları Batı merkezli kuramları yeniden üretmeye devam etmektedir. Bu çalışma, daha adil ve ekolojik bir uluslararası sistemin inşasına katkı sunabilecek eleştirel bir yönelimin gerekliliğinin altını çizerek Uİ disiplininin çevre gündemine katkı sunmayı hedeflemektedir.

Keywords

• Uluslararası Çevre Siyaseti
• Çevre Sorunları
• Batı-dışı Uİ Teorileri
• Türkiye’de Uİ
• İçerik Analizi

From Challenging the Limits to the Limits of Challenging: Discussing the Environment in Top-Tier International Relations Journals in Türkiye

Abstract

International environmental politics lacks critical engagement. In the discipline of International Relations, environmental issues have long been treated as peripheral. In the limited number of scientific publications addressing these topics, mainstream perspectives utilized neorealist and neoliberal approaches. These perspectives fail to question the structural inequalities hardwired into the international system. In this context, this study examines how Turkish IR scholarship engages with environmental issues. Deploying qualitative content analysis, this study examines environment-related articles between 2004 and 2024 in three top-tier IR journals in Türkiye. Applying the inclusion/exclusion criteria, eligible articles were coded and thematically analyzed using MAXQDA software. The findings reveal that most of environment-related articles are framed within state-centered frameworks with limited engagement in critical and status-quo perspectives. In the case of Türkiye, IR scholarship continues to re-produce theories of Western origin in environmental politics. The study attempts to contribute IR’s environmental agenda by underlining the need for a more critical orientation that can build a just and ecological international system.

Keywords

• International environmental politics
• environmental problems
• non-Western IR theory
• IR in Türkiye
• Content analysis

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