%0 Journal Article %T ¡°Millet-System¡± Versus ¡°Westphalia- System¡± and ¡°International Politics¡± in The Post-Cold-War Period %A Kemal £¿£¿FT£¿£¿ %J - %D 2018 %X In the Cold War era, ¡®Realism¡¯ became the dominant theory of the "International Relations", which began to appear as an academic discipline after the World War I. The fact that ¡®Realism¡¯ explains modern international relations with the concepts and understanding of the nation-state that emerged in Europe and spread out of Europe which was revealed by Westphalia-System has been transformed into an indisputable reality. The Thirty Years War that erupted in 1618 in Central Europe, ended in 1648 as a result of the church-state separation between the Protestants and Catholics, based on the nation-state concept has led to the emergence of the "Westphalia-System" that is the nation-state understanding in Europe. During the period in which the "Westphalia-System" emerged as a nation-state understanding, there was a "Millet-System" with the principle of the management by religious or sect of communities living in the Ottoman Empire. The "Millet-System" faced a crisis in the 19th century with the spread of nationalist movements as a result of the "Westphalia-System" and eventually ended with the disintegration of the Ottoman Empire. In the post-Cold War era, it has been argued that if it is possible to establish the a peaceful world order by preventing conflicts arising from ethnic, religious and sectarian divisions with the understanding of the "Millet-System" as an alternative world-system approach against challenges emerging in the form of globalization and ethno-centric locality against the "Westphalia-System" . In this study, the international politics of the post-Cold War period is tried to be read with an understanding of the "Millet-System" which was put forward by Ahmet Davuto£¿lu, as an alternative to the Westphalia-System, and the study is conclu %K Westphalia-Sistemi %K Millet-Sistemi %K Realizm %K Ulus-devlet %K Osmanl£¿ £¿mparatorlu£¿u %U http://dergipark.org.tr/ksbd/issue/41531/501301