Uluslararası İlişkiler Dergisi

Yazarlar: Necati POLAT

Konular:Sosyal

Anahtar Kelimeler:Turkey,Peace,War,Realism,Idealism

Özet: This article seeks to provide an account of the ideas in Turkey, from the second half of the 19th century until the immediate aftermath of World War II, on international peace, dialogue and integration, based on two distinct concepts of peace. Peace is envisaged in one of these concepts via the notion of international conflict as the basic reality, an understanding which reduces peace to a state of affairs defined by the absence of war, thus devoid of a "positive" value. The other concept tends to perceive the very notion of international conflict as a possible extension of the absence of domestic peace; accordingly, peace should be the first principle not conflict. The first concept does not take seriously the notion of peace as such, nor does it appear to have formed a discourse on peace. The second concept. on the other hand, is articulated in the article through ideas developed respectively by Namık Kemal, Prince Sabahaddin, Ahmed Rıza, Ziya Gokalp, Ahmet Hamdi Başar, and finally the short-lived Turkish federalism active in the period following World War I I.

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