Studying the Concept of Strategy

Yıl 2018, Cilt: 14 Sayı: 27, 1 - 38, 08.06.2018

Hasan Yükselen

https://doi.org/10.17752/guvenlikstrtj.432145

Cited By: 4

Öz

Despite emerging within military realm, the concept of strategy, in time, has broadened and has been begun to use in analysis of long-term and vital issues. However, with the effect of positivism, the concept of strategy, which is originally social in nature, has eventually been reified through disconnection from its context, and reduced through disregarding agential aspects but focusing primarily on means. The aim of this article is to seek an answer to the question of how strategy should be studied, based on the constituent questions of what makes strategy and what makes strategy possible, in order to suggest a historical and sociological explanation. To reach this explanation, the historical and sociological of strategy is sought by employing dialectical agent-structure approach from a differing philosophy of science stance named as critical realism.

Anahtar Kelimeler

Strategy, Praxis, Critical Realism, Ontological Depth, Agent-Structure Dialectics

Strateji Kavramını Çalışmak

Öz

Strateji askerî alanda ortaya çıkmasına rağmen zaman içerisinde genişleyerek birçok alanda uzun erimli ve yaşamsal konuların incelenmesinde kullanılan bir kavram haline gelmiştir. Ancak pozitivizmin etkisi altında aslında sosyal olan strateji giderek içinde bulunduğu bağlamdan koparılarak şeyleştirilmiş ve sadece elde mevcut olan araçlara indirgenerek öznesel nitelikleri göz ardı edilmiştir. Bu makalenin amacı, stratejiyi ne oluşturmakta ve mümkün kılmaktadır sorusundan hareketle stratejinin nasıl çalışılması gerektiği sorusuna tarihsel ve sosyolojik analizini mümkün kılabilecek bir yaklaşımı sunmaktır. Bunu yaparken de stratejinin tarihsel ve sosyolojik bir açıklamasını özne-yapı diyalektiği çerçevesinde eleştirel gerçekçilik olarak adlandırılan bilim felsefesinden faydalanarak açıklamaktadır.

Anahtar Kelimeler

Strateji, Praxis, Eleştirel Gerçekçilik, Ontolojik Derinlik, Özne-Yapı Diyalektiği

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