Akademik Veri Yönetim Sistemi
Tezin Türü: Doktora
Tezin Yürütüldüğü Kurum: Orta Doğu Teknik Üniversitesi, İktisadi ve İdari Bilimler Fakültesi, İktisat Bölümü, Türkiye
Tezin Onay Tarihi: 2017
Tezin Dili: İngilizce
Öğrenci: Yelda Erçandırlı
Danışman: PINAR BEDİRHANOĞLU TOKER
Özet:This thesis discusses the linkage between environment and security in International Relations (IR) Theory from a critical realist (CR) perspective. It questions the dominant concept of security in IR and asks whether IR theory is adequate to understand green (in)securities. This dissertation indicates the necessity of problematizing the linkage between environment and security in terms of the socio-natural complexities and emphasizes the dialectic relations of emerging features of these insecurities without being reduced them to their biological/material or cultural/ideational dimensions. What constitutes one another common point of the approaches in IR, excluding the natural or social aspect of environmental problems is that the (re)production of agent-centrism in describing the relationship between environmental issues and security. It is argued that the linkage between environment and security should be considered as comprising of multiple, complex inequalities or injustices underlining that the question of how social structures are shaped by the non-human nature. From this point of view, the concept of ‘green’, rather than of the environmental or ecological, is deployed in the thesis. In this sense, the concept of green (in)security is harnessed as a synonym of the concept of socio-natural (in)security in this dissertation. In doing so, the thesis seeks to criticize positivist, post-positivist approaches, arguing for non-reductionist a green (socio-natural) approach, based on CR.