Aktör-Merkezli Sosyalleşme ve Batı-Dışı Normatiflik Üzerine Bir İnceleme: Türkiye’nin ŞİÖ Üyeliğini Tartışmak
A Research on Agent-Centred Socialization and Non-Western Normativities - Discussing Turkey’s Membership to SCO

Summary/Abstract: Socialization research in International Relations is dominated by studies focusing on the structure’s primacy in the socialization process, considering agents as passive recipients of relevant norms, roles and principles. This study elaborates the possibilities of shifting focus in IR research from structure to agent in socialization and of thinking of agents as active adopters of norms and roles other than passive exposees to them in socialization context. The paper moreover discusses the construction of normative alternativities during socialization and raises a critique to the disregard shown to non-Western normativities. The research takes the discussions of Turkey’s willingness to membership to the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) and the relevant political discourses of building it as the normative alternative of Western social environments as a case study.

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