Segregations and Geopolitical “New” Orders: Turkish Armed Forces as Entrepreneurial Venturist Masters

Abstract

Beginning with the epistemological principle, International Relations (IR) critiques “world politics”, we look at the discipline of International Political Economy (IPE) within IR, considering to what extent IPE re-thinks key IR divides. What does IPE mean when the military-industrial complex is a site of power for the accumulation of resources and knowledge production? Can we critically theorize without understanding the international, the military, or the industrial as contested categories? How have critical theories of security and militarization and their racial formations been “globally” and “locally” positioned? Does an assumed segregation of security and property relations preclude making tensions visible in security regimes and among vulture capitalists? This essay foregrounds Turkey and its armed forces as sites of critical inquiry into the key divides of IR: national and international; global and local; the economy and state relations; rationality and bodies. We highlight what is produced as viable within the fields of the current model of global power and collective practices instrumental in changing IPE consensus about global processes and relations to dissent.

Keywords

Geopolitics and Segregation, Collective Capitalist, Turkish Armed Forces, IPE and the Military, OYAK.

Citation

Agathangelou, Anna M. and Karaağaç, Barış, “Segregations and Geopolitical “New” Orders: Turkish Armed Forces as Entrepreneurial Venturist Masters”, International Relations, Volume 8, No 29 (Spring 2011), p. 101-122.

Affiliations

• Anna M. Agathangelou, Assoc. Prof., York University, Department of Political Science and School of Women’s Studies
• Barış Karaağaç, Lecturer, Trent University, Department of Political Science