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Status-seeking is ubiquitous in world politics, and the literature is currently dominated by state-centrism and rationalism, which is almost exclusively focus on state elites. This results in a thin and limited understanding of what 'status-seeking' is, where it works, and how it is effected. This article challenges the existing approaches by introducing a performativity framework and offers an overhaul of how 'status' can be studied. It suggests replacing 'status-seeking' with 'status performances' that are conceptualised as part of 'statecraft' process. Drawing on post-structuralist and queer approaches as well as aesthetics in International Relations (IR), it is argued that status performances participate in the production of the state itself as a subject in world politics, so all states are 'status-seekers'. This subject-production process occurs in multiple political sites, including the academic IR discourse in a country and visual presentations in the media. It is concluded that there is no 'status' beyond the subject, and status can never be achieved because it always needs repetitive performances. The argument is illustrated by an analysis of the production of 'Turkey' as a humanitarian state and demonstrates how this is effected in state-elite pronouncements, IR scholarship in Turkey, and visual representations. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In this study, in order to remove of toxic Cr(VI) metal ions from aqueous solutions, three SPION@SiO2-N1-BODIPY, SPION@SiO2-N2-BODIPY andSPION@SiO2-N3-BODIPY nanoparticle adsorbents nanoparticle adsorbents with different amino groups were compared/investigated.The adsorption parameters such ascontact time, initial Cr (VI) concentration, adsorbent dosage, pH, and temperature experiments were investigated and also nanoparticle adsorbents with different amine groups were compared.The results showed that the nanoparticle containig more amines groups adsorbed more Cr(VI) with less dose amount used. When the adsorption capacity of SPION@SiO2-N1-BODIPY, SPION@SiO2-N2-BODIPYand SPION@SiO2-N3-BODIPY were compared to ones reported in the literatures, our nanoparticle adsorbents have the maximum adsorption capacities of 23.981, 33.003 and 43.478 mg/g at pH 2.0 and 25°C, respectively.The equilibrium data obtained wereexamined with various kinetics and isotherms equations.It is concluded that the adsorption processes of three nanoparticle adsorbents, Pseudo-second-order model and Langmuir models are well described.Briefly, the results showed that SPION@SiO2-N1-BODIPY, SPION@SiO2-N2-BODIPYand SPION@SiO2-N3-BODIPY nanoparticle adsorbents can be a great promise as effective adsorbents by removing toxic Cr(VI) metal ions from aqueous solutions and also determining the adsorption capabilities of nanoparticle adsorbents with different amine groups will help future studies. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Status-seeking practices of some states from the Global South have increasingly been studied in the status literature in International Relations. The existing debates, whilst developing significant advances recently, still fail to account for and theorise both status anxieties of postcolonial states and the intrinsic relation between them and existential anxieties. This article will address this gap through utilising an ontological security perspective on status-seeking. By focusing on subjectivities (not solely on identities as conventionally done in the status literature) and introducing subject production to the process of status-seeking, this article conceptualises status in relation to identity narratives of the subject to achieve 'wholeness' in hierarchical social orders. This novel post-structuralist understanding of status and status-seeking through the introduction of a Lacanian theorisation of ontological security offers an alternative perspective to approaches in status debates to understand status anxieties of postcolonial states better. The conceptual discussion will be illustrated through demonstrating Turkey's status anxiety in relation to its paid-off debt to International Monetary Fund. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article will discuss the concept of 'security dilemma', which was conceptualized sixty years ago, but has been enriched and recently re-thought, in three periods. In the first period, the concept was formulated based on the security understanding dominating the Cold War era. The second period is the one during which the concept was enriched in conjunction with emerging problems in world politics and the broadened security understanding in the discipline of International Relations. In the last period, the concept was completely rethought and fed by new ideas. Among these new ideas, the concept of 'trust' was offered as a way of transcending security dilemmas. The re-generated version of 'security dilemma' presents a new perspective to understand, study, and re-think what security and insecurity mean in world politics. Keywords: Security Dilemma, Logics of Insecurity, Trust, Fear, Order. Bu makale, yarim yuzyil once olusturulan, surekli gelistirilen ve son yillarda yeniden dusunulen 'guvenlik ikilemi' kavraminin degisimini uc ana baslikta incelemektedir. Ilk donemde kavram, Soguk Savas donemi guvenlik anlayisiyla olusturulmustur. Ikinci donem, dunya siyasetine egemen olan yeni guvenlik sorunlari ve buna paralel olarak Uluslararasi Iliskiler disiplinindeki guvenlik anlayisinin genislemesiyle, kavramin zenginlestigi donemdir. Son donem, 'guvenlik ikilemi'nin kokunden degistirildigi, yeniden dusunuldugu ve yeni fikirlerle beslendigi donemdir. Bu yeni fikirler icinde, disiplinde kisitli olarak calisilan 'guven' kavrami guvenlik ikilemlerinin asilmasi icin onerilmistir. 'Guvenlik Ikilemi' yeniden dusunulmus haliyle, guvenligin ve guvensizligin anlasilmasi, calisilmasi ve yeniden dusunulmesi icin yeni bir perspektif sunmaktadir. Anahtar Kelimeler: Guvenlik Ikilemi, Guvensizlik Mantiklari, Guven, Korku, Duzen., 'Guvenlik Ikilemi' (security dilemma) kavrami hem Uluslararasi Iliskiler (UI) disiplini ogrencileri hem de karar-alicilar icin uzerinde dusunulmesi gereken bir kavramdir. Bunun nedeni, karar-alicilarin, guvenlik sorunlarini nasil cozebilecekleri konusunda farkli seceneklerle [...]