Siyaset Bilimi ve Uluslararası İlişkiler Bölümü Koleksiyonu
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Article A Discourse Analysis of Bilateral Water Agreements Between Türkiye and Iraq: Legal Instruments of Water Diplomacy in the Euphrates-Tigris River Basin(International Environmental Agreements: Politics, Law and Economics, 2026) Güleç, Cansu; Kibaroglu, AysegulThis study examines the discursive dynamics of bilateral water diplomacy between T & uuml;rkiye and Iraq through a detailed analysis of the legal agreements governing the Euphrates-Tigris (ET) River system. Rather than focusing on the implementation or efficacy of these agreements, the paper investigates how discourse shapes the roles, identities, and power hierarchies of the involved actors over time. Employing a discourse-analytical framework, the research explores how water agreements position actors, embed values, and narrate cooperation in evolving geopolitical contexts. The paper begins with a historical overview of transboundary water relations in the ET basin, emphasizing the prevalence of bilateralism. It then lays out the conceptual and methodological foundations of discourse analysis, drawing on key literature and analytical categories such as presupposition, predication, and subject positioning. The core section applies this framework to four key water agreements between T & uuml;rkiye and Iraq, highlighting thematic shifts and evolving actor roles. A discussion section synthesizes findings through Doty's (1993) discourse model, emphasizing how identities and relations are constructed over time. Finally, the conclusion reflects on the implications of these discursive trends for the future of water diplomacy in the region. The T & uuml;rkiye-Iraq case reveals how bilateral agreements can evolve into discursive tools that align with evolving global water management paradigms, offering politically sensitive basins a transferable approach to linking contested transboundary water issues with more comprehensive and partnership-based water diplomacy.Conference Object Why “discourse” Matters in the Discipline of International Relations: a Conceptual Analysis(KTÜ Uluslararası İlişkiler Bölümü ve Stratejik Araştırma Merkezi, 2023) Güleç Aras, CansuThe purpose of this paper is to examine how discourse is conceptualized and utilized in the discipline of International Relations. The discourses we use to understand and influence each other are used in interdisciplinary approaches in social sciences. Discourse, which is used in the meanings such as “rhetoric, speech, thesis, point of view, doctrine, argument, opinion, philosophy, type of expression, style of expression, style, pronunciation, individual language, conceptual system, sum of signs” is defined in various ways terminologically. Disciplines such as linguistics, philosophy of language, anthropology, ethnology, sociology, psychology, and political science have presented different explanations and methods about discourse. Discourse, in general terms, is interpreted as representational practices in which meanings are produced. In this sense, the idea that knowledge is separate from the social sphere is rejected, and knowledge is accepted as the founding element of reality. In fact, there are various definitions of discourse that differ from eachother.As a research method, discourse analysis, which refers the meanings formed through speeches and texts, is applied in different disciplines for extensive examination. In discourse analysis, the discourses to be explored can be written texts or they can be accepted as verbal conversations. These discourses, which might be both written and verbal, should possibly be examined in their original forms. Furthermore, in discourse analysis, the place and time of the discourse, the communication between the parties of the discourse, social roles, relevant social information, norms and values, institutional structures and organizational processes are also important. As a matter of fact, individuals who use the language are always in contact with eachother in their communication activities they establish as a part of groups, institutions, or cultures. In discourse analysis, which is most frequently used as a post-structural method in the discipline of International Relations, social reality is not considered independent of language and is created only through representative practices in language. Thus, in post-structural analysis, it is believed that the construction of different social realities is possible only through interpretation. The discourse that takes place in a certain political context and political culture often raises questions about a nation’s own identity within the discipline of International Relations.Conference Object Power of Discourse in International Relations: Post-Structural Framework(Ankara Bilim Üniversitesi, 2022) Güleç, CansuThe aim of this paper is discussing the question of “how the reality is produced and maintained” in International Relations (IR) via discourses. As a form of “speech, argument, statement, communication, debate, conversation, written or verbal explanation, expression type and style”, discourse is defined terminologically in various ways. In general framework, it is defined as “the use of language in speech and writing in order to produce meaning”. Discourse is widely used in various research on social sciences, and many additional subjects examined today include discourse analysis as a method in IR discipline. Post-structuralism has entered the discipline of IR in the 1980s through concerning the state’s historical and conceptual production, and its political formation, economic constitution, and social exclusions. As a theory that examines the relations among human beings, the world, creation and reconstruction of the meaning, post-structural practices have been used to examine how the subject of IR is constituted in and through the discourses and text of world politics. In that respect, political discourse is based on specific problem and subjectivity structures, but these problems and subjectivities are formed through discourses. In this context, discourse-based ontology and epistemology in post-structuralist approaches also stand out in the relationship between power and knowledge. Therefore, knowledge becomes crucial for the establishment of the authority. Accordingly, after the elaboration of concept of discourse and discourse analysis, it would be important to understand how post-structural discourse analysis is conceptualized and applied in IR discipline.