Author profile: Metin Koca

How Have the Modernization and Secularization Theses Shaped the Study of IR?

Metin Koca • Dec 24 2013 • Essays

The secularization thesis, which left religion behind in pre-modernity, is the main reason for the inadequacy of IR’s paradigmatic thinking to identify religion as a part of modern political life.

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