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 6. POST-COLONIALISM
As he discusses the relationship between colonialism and Orientalism Said argues that Orientalism was not simply a rationalization of colonial rule, but ‘colonial rule was justified in advance by Orientalism, rather than after the fact.’ He also argues that ‘since the middle of the eighteenth century there had been two principal elements in the relation between East and West.’ One feature of Oriental-European relations ‘was a growing systematic knowledge in Europe about the Orient, knowledge reinforced by the colonial encounter as well as by the widespread interest in the alien and unusual, exploited by the developing sciences of ethnology, comparative anatomy, philology, and history; further more, to this systematic knowledge was added a sizable body of literature.’ |
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‘Theoretical Approaches to World Politics’ is written in the spring of 2000. I offer it to critical public considerations without making any changes.
1. INTRODUCTION
My purpose in this paper is to provide an account of International Relations on the one hand and locate myself within the field on the other. There are a wide range of theoretical approaches to world politics with different epistemology, methodology and ontology. In creating an account of the field I shall mainly deal with (neo)realism, liberalism, Marxism, transnational historical materialism.
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| PARLAMENTER OPORTÜNİZM DEĞİL, KOMÜNİST-DEVRİMCİLİK! (1) |
| Türkiye ve Kuzey-Kürdistan coğrafyası yine tansiyonu yüksek bir seçim sürecinden geçiyor. Halk kitlelerinin politikaya ilgisinin seçim öncesi dönemlere göre çok daha fazla arttığı ve/veya artırıldığı bu dönemde “sol” politik hareket de iyice hareketlendi. Bu yazının görevi, seçime katılan politik partiler, örgütler, bloklar, bağımsız adaylar vb. de dahil olmak üzere, seçim sürecinin genel bir çözümlemesini yapmak değildir. Burada, asıl olarak, seçim sürecinin ve parlamentonun devrim ve sosyalizm savaşımı için kullanılması görevi üzerinde durulacaktır. |
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