Akademik Veri Yönetim Sistemi
TURKISH YEARBOOK OF INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS, cilt.57, sa.1, ss.71-98, 2025 (Hakemli Dergi)
International environmental politics lacks critical engagement. In the discipline ofInternational Relations, environmental issues have long been treated as peripheral.In the limited number of scientific publications addressing these topics, mainstreamperspectives utilized neorealist and neoliberal approaches. These perspectives failto question the structural inequalities hardwired into the international system. Inthis context, this study examines how Turkish IR scholarship engages withenvironmental issues. Deploying qualitative content analysis, this study examinesenvironment-related articles between 2004 and 2024 in three top-tier IR journals inTürkiye. Applying the inclusion/exclusion criteria, eligible articles were coded andthematically analyzed using MAXQDA software. The findings reveal that most ofenvironment-related articles are framed within state-centered frameworks withlimited engagement in critical and status-quo perspectives. In the case of Türkiye,IR scholarship continues to re-produce theories of Western origin in environmentalpolitics. The study attempts to contribute IR’s environmental agenda by underliningthe need for a more critical orientation that can build a just and ecologicalinternational system.