A distant History of the International relations discipline in turkey: International Law (1859-1945)

Abstract

What urges this article is the curious dearth of research on the history of international relations discipline in Turkey. The article aims to shed light on the factual historical development as well as the line of progress that the discipline has taken from 1859 to 1945. The courses on international relations were called international law in the curricula of Ottoman higher education institutions. International law became the standard course in which professors actually taught international relations. A study of textbooks on international law, both from the Ottoman period and early Republican Turkey, provided ample opportunities to recover the conceptual history of the discipline. Meanwhile, it was also possible to demonstrate the institutional history and development of the discipline with respect to courses and professors. Last but not the least, some themes, subjects and major changes in the content of the courses over time have been uncovered.

Keywords

International Relations, Disciplinary History, International Law, Turkey.

Citation

Erozan, Boğaç, “A distant History of the International relations discipline in turkey: International Law (1859-1945)”, International Relations, Volume 11, Issue 43 (Fall 2014), pp. 53-80.

Affiliations

• Boğaç EROZAN, Assoc. Prof. Dr., Istanbul Bilgi University, Department of International Relations