The Effect of Glocal Systemic Polarity on Regional Stability

Year 2023, Volume: 10 Issue: 2, 474 - 489, 25.10.2023

İbrahim Halil Yaşar , Selim Dursun

https://doi.org/10.17336/igusbd.1022315

Abstract

This study is about the effect of glocal systemic polarity on regional stability. Studies on polarity and stability often focus on the relationship between global systemic polarity and stability or regional systemic polarity and stability. In these studies, it is assumed that the global systemic polarity structure penetrates all regions of the world at the same rate or the regional systemic polarity operates independently from the global systemic polarity. However, these assumptions lead to some gaps in the explanation of the relationship between polarity and stability. This study attempts to fill this gap by introducing the concept of glocal systemic polarity. This concept argues that in the relationship between polarity and stability, global systemic polarity has different degrees of influence on regions, and these different degrees affect regional stability. Therefore, it argues that in all global systems, regions on which a pole-state or pole-states develop hegemonic relations by themselves are stable, or regions on which a pole-state cannot develop hegemonic relations alone are unstable. This claim will be tested by looking at the regional distribution of the conflicts’ intensity that occurred between 1947 and 2020 in the world.

Keywords

System, Glocal System, Polarity, Stability, Conflict

Glokal Sistemik Kutupluluğun Bölgesel İstikrara Etkisi

Abstract

Bu çalışma glokal sistemik kutupluluğun bölgesel istikrara etkisi hakkındadır. Kutupluluk ve istikrar üzerindeki çalışmalar genellikle global sistemik kutupluluk ve istikrar veya bölgesel sistemik kutupluluk ve istikrar arasındaki ilişkiye odaklanmaktadır. Bu çalışmalarda, global sistemik kutupluluk yapısının dünyadaki tüm bölgelere aynı oranda nüfuz ettiği ya da bölgesel sistemik kutupluluğun global sistemik kutupluluktan bağımsız işlediği varsayılmaktadır. Ancak, bu varsayımlar kutupluluk ve istikrar arasındaki ilişkinin açıklanmasında bazı boşluklara yol açmaktadır. Bu çalışma glokal sistemik kutupluluk kavramını ortaya atarak bu boşluğu doldurmaya çalışmaktadır. Bu kavram, kutupluluk ve istikrar arasındaki ilişkide, global sistemik kutupluluğun bölgelere etkisinin farklı derecelerde olduğunu ve bu farklılığın da bölgesel istikrarı etkilediğini savunur. Dolayısıyla, bütün global sistemlerde, kutup-başı devlet ya da devletlerin tek başlarına üzerinde hegemonik ilişki geliştirdiği bölgelerin istikrarlı veya bir kutup-başı devletin tek başına üzerinde hegemonik ilişki geliştiremediği bölgelerin istikrarsız olduğunu iddia eder. Bu iddia, dünyada 1947-2020 tarihleri arasında meydana gelen çatışma sayılarının yoğunluğunun bölgesel dağılımlarına bakılarak test edilecektir.

Keywords

Sistem, Glokal Sistem, Kutupluluk, İstikrar, Çatışma

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