Keywords of the 21st Century: Global Politics and Vavien Theory

Abstract

After the Cold War period, the disciplines of social sciences experienced a major transformation. Undoubtedly, debates on grounds such as globalization, neo-liberalism, and post-modernism have created new fields. However, it would be an incomplete to discuss only about these grounds as there has been an extraordinary inflation of concepts within the field of social sciences. Therefore, the emergence of new concepts has brought about the emergence of different perspectives in the theoretical field. In many analyses in the fields of debate, approaches to understanding and explaining the post-Cold War period and the 21^st century have gained intensity. In other words, it has become an important issue to diagnose and identify this period from various perspectives. In essence, this study aims to make a contribution to these perspectives by comparing perspectives and examining their interrelated natüre within the period in questions. In order to place the relevant claim in a conceptual context, the framework has been named “Vavien theory.”