Scholarly dialogue between ‘core’ and ‘periphery’ or ‘West/non-West’ in many disciplinary communities has become an issue of discussion in recent decades, spawned in part by increased expectations in many periphery communities of being published in core journals, and complicated by factors such as the linguistic hegemony of English and concerns about access. The International Relations (IR) discipline has been at the forefront of this discussion. However, despite widespread awareness of the issue, and a dedicated push for greater emphasis on local theorising out of the periphery, the cutting edge of global IR scholarship still remains core dominant. This article proposes that a focus on ‘quality’ methodology, in the broadest possible sense of having transparent and effectively applied research designs, could serve as a lingua franca to promote the exchange of ideas in a way less prone to disadvantage periphery scholars. The article goes on to examine this issue by focusing on the case of the Turkish IR disciplinary community. It looks at how methodological issues are currently considered in Turkish IR pedagogy and scholarship and then offers a self-reflective assessment of the quality of methodology in Turkish IR. It concludes by offering suggestions on how the Turkish IR disciplinary community could better address methodological issues and, ultimately, perhaps achieve greater impact within the global IR community.

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作为国际关系通用语言的方法论：与核心对话的外围自我反思

近几十年来，许多学科社区中“核心”和“外围”或“西方/非西方”之间的学术对话已成为讨论的问题，部分原因是许多外围社区对在核心期刊上发表的期望越来越高，以及由于英语的语言霸权和对访问的担忧等因素而变得复杂。国际关系 (IR) 学科一直处于讨论的前沿。然而，尽管人们普遍意识到这个问题，并且致力于更加强调外围之外的本地理论，但全球 IR 学术的前沿仍然是核心主导。本文建议关注“质量”方法，在尽可能广泛的意义上具有透明和有效应用的研究设计，可以作为一种通用语言，以一种不太容易使外围学者处于不利地位的方式促进思想交流。本文继续通过关注土耳其 IR 纪律社区的案例来研究这个问题。它着眼于土耳其 IR 教学法和学术界目前如何考虑方法论问题，然后对土耳其 IR 中方法论的质量进行自我反思评估。最后，就土耳其 IR 学科界如何更好地解决方法论问题并最终可能在全球 IR 界产生更大影响提供建议。它着眼于土耳其 IR 教学法和学术界目前如何考虑方法论问题，然后对土耳其 IR 中方法论的质量进行自我反思评估。最后，就土耳其 IR 学科界如何更好地解决方法论问题并最终可能在全球 IR 界产生更大影响提供建议。它着眼于土耳其 IR 教学法和学术界目前如何考虑方法论问题，然后对土耳其 IR 中方法论的质量进行自我反思评估。最后，就土耳其 IR 学科界如何更好地解决方法论问题并最终可能在全球 IR 界产生更大影响提出建议。