Realist teoride bilim diplomasisi ve Paris İklim Anlaşması yükümlülüklerinin uygulanabilirliği: Türkiye örneği

Climate change is one of the most important challenges in 21st century. In 2015, Paris Agreement which is considered as the product of science in diplomacy dimension of science diplomacy was signed by all the nations to effectively combat with climate change. However, signatory parties' commitments to the agreement are regarded as insufficient with respect to the targets of the agreement. Therefore, within the framework of the thesis, the process of emergence of Paris Agreement, concept of science diplomacy with its three dimensions and reasons of countries' insufficient commitments will be examined. Turkey has shown to be a great example in terms of analyzing these concepts because Turkey's commitments are also regarded as insufficient and Turkey has not yet ratified the agreement due to particular incompatibilities with its national interests. Thus, the study aims to indicate that despite the particular incompatibilities in the short run, there will be potential economic and political advantages of ratification and fulfillment of the agreement for Turkey in the long run by analyzing Turkey's renewable energy potential and energy import dependency.