HERMENEUTICS AND ITS EFFECT ON INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS: TERRITORIAL DISPUTES BETWEEN CHINA AND THE PHILIPPINES
Hermeneutics, as an art of interpretation, is gradually gaining popularity in social sciences. Hermeneutical approach, starting from the Antiquity period until today, appeared first in the texts of Theology and Law. With the growing individualism and scientific progress in the eighteenth century, h...
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Fırat University
2021
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| Sumario: | Hermeneutics, as an art of interpretation, is gradually gaining popularity in social sciences. Hermeneutical approach, starting from the Antiquity period until today, appeared first in the texts of Theology and Law. With the growing individualism and scientific progress in the eighteenth century, hermeneutics has been seen in a various social science. The efforts to set “one right” in interpreting have led hermeneutics to be discussed in a positivist methodology at the beginning. But then, the new critical approaches have ensured hermeneutics to take part in social sciences as well. Hermeneutics is directly influenced by the scientific philosophy of the time. It seems that philosophers who left their marks in the period and the approaches of thinkers working on this field also have affected interpretation methods. The relationship between the period and the thinker has always had a fundamental influence in re-evaluating the texts. It is no wonder that the department of International Relations which benefits from basic sciences to have been affected by that trend. International Relations is a field that carries a variety of studies in many sub-disciplines. Political Science, Theology, Philosophy, Sociology, Law, Economics and Translation Studies are the main ones. Therefore, researchers in international relations, benefiting from texts in these sub-disciplines, are influenced by their interpreted text in their works. It is seen that the global or regional dominant powers take advantage of it by interpreting in accordance with their own interests since the written legal texts usually contain ambiguous expressions. This study aims to reveal how hermeneutics is shaped in social sciences within a conceptual framework by analyzing the problem of the controversial islands on the South China Sea between China and the Philippines at the International Court of Justice as a case study. |
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