NEOKLASİK REALİZM: İLERLETİCİ Mİ? YOZLAŞTIRICI MI? LAKATOSYAN BİR DEĞERLENDİRME

Year 2015, Issue: 46, 1 - 18, 14.10.2015

Samet Yılmaz

Abstract

1980 sonrası dönemde realist uluslararası ilişkiler teorisi içerisinde realizmin yapısalcı yorumu hakim konumda olmuş ve teoriye yönelik tartışmalar yapısalcı realizm etrafında gerçekleşmiştir. Bu dönemde realizm hem kendi içerisinde yeni sorunsallarla hem de diğer teorilerden gelen eleştirilerle karşı karşıya kalmıştır. Bu çerçevede realist uluslararası ilişkiler teorisi içerisinde bu sorunsallar ele alınmış ve hakim yapısalcı realizm dışında çeşitli vaka çalışmaları yapılmıştır. Bu vaka çalışmaları, devletlerin belli dış politika eylemlerini ve ulusal politikanın bu eylemler üzerindeki etkisini açıklamaya yönelik tekil çalışmalar olarak yapılmıştır. Neticede bu vaka çalışmalarını kendi bünyesinde toplayan neoklasik realizm yeni bir model olarak uluslararası ilişkiler teorileri içerisinde konumlanmıştır. Bu çalışmada realizm içerisinde ortaya çıkan ya da kendisini realizm içerisinde konumlandıran neoklasik realizmin realist uluslararası ilişkiler teorisi içerisindeki konumu ve öne sürdüğü varsayımların getirdiği yenilikler analiz edilecektir. Bu yapılırken Imre Lakatos’un “Bilimsel Araştırma Programı” yaklaşımından yararlanılacaktır. Lakatos’un yaklaşımı çerçevesinde teorinin realizm içerisinde ilerletici mi yoksa yozlaştırıcı mı olduğu sorunsalına cevap aranacaktır.

Keywords

Neoklasik Realizm, Bilimsel İlerleme, Imre Lakatos, Bilimsel Araştırma Programı

NEOCLASSICAL REALISM: PROGRESSIVE OR DEGENERATIVE? A LAKATOSIAN EVALUATION

Abstract

The dominant version in realist international theory in post-1980 period was structural realism, and discussions about theory revolved around it. In this term, realism was encountered new problematics from inside realism and critics from other theoretical approaches. In this framework, new problematics were addressed in realist international theory, and new case studies were made out of the dominant structural realism. These case studies were aimed to clarify foreign policy actions of states, and to show effect of domestic politics on these foreign policy actions. Eventually, neoclassical realism including these case studies has been positioned in international relations theories. In this paper, neoclassical realism emerged from realism, or positioned itself within realism will be analysed in terms of its propositions in realist international realist theory. To do this, it will be benefited from Scientific Research Program of Imre Lakatos. The problematic whether neoclassical realism is scientifically progressive or degenerative within realism will be handled in the perspective of Lakatos

Keywords

Neoclassical Realism, Scientific Progress, Imre Lakatos, Scientific Research Program

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