A Conceptual History: Historical Sociological Analysis of Unipolarity in Structural Realist Literature
ULUSLARARASI ILISKILER, cilt.19, sa.76, ss.3-17, 2023 (SSCI, Scopus, TRDizin)
- Yayın Türü: Makale / Tam Makale
- Cilt numarası: 19 Sayı: 76
- Basım Tarihi: 2023
- Doi Numarası: 10.33458/uidergisi.1234124
- Dergi Adı: ULUSLARARASI ILISKILER
- Derginin Tarandığı İndeksler: Social Sciences Citation Index (SSCI), Scopus, IBZ Online, International Bibliography of Social Sciences, Historical Abstracts, Index Islamicus, Political Science Complete, vLex, Worldwide Political Science Abstracts, TR DİZİN (ULAKBİM)
- Sayfa Sayıları: ss.3-17
- Çukurova Üniversitesi Adresli: Hayır
Özet
Unipolarity has been taken for granted and remains unquestioned in the International Relations literature. This article provides
the conceptual history of unipolarity by bringing an immanent critique. It shows the evolution of unipolarity literature in
the absence of counterbalancing in four stages. It focuses on the use of history in structural realism and brings a historical
sociological perspective to the literature to show how tempocentric theorizing impaired the understanding of unipolarity
as a distinct structure. The article concludes by underlying the importance of noticing the cost of reification of concepts for
theorizing and by highlighting that unipolarity is still understudied both theoretically and methodologically.