cover image: All Azimuth V12, N1, 2023, 3-18

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All Azimuth V12, N1, 2023, 3-18

20 Jan 2023

The other meaning is the ongoing crisis of the discipline of IR, particularly the theory-making dimension of IR intellectuals and scholars in the United States. [...] The economist asks: how does the policy affect the wealth of society? The lawyer asks: is this policy in accord with the rules of law? The moralist asks: is this policy in accord with moral principles? And the political realist asks: how does the policy affect the power of the nation or the decision- making elite? Morgenthau underlines that political realists are not unaware of the existence 20 Ho. [...] The success and its degree of rationality can only be evaluated and understood at the end of the operation, in other words after the implementation of the plan. [...] The lack of a fruitful discussion of ends has brought the interpretation of power politics to the static quality of the theory. [...] The core paradox arises from the lack of consent between the radical supporters of the Enlightenment and those of the Counter-Enlightenment, and their mutual arrogance and hubris.
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16
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Turkey