International relations (IR) scholarship rests on a conception of 'the international' based on the experiences of core actors. A burgeoning literature has asked what IR would look like if non-core actors' conceptions of 'the international' were also considered. This article analyzes conceptions of 'the international' in Turkey as an example of a non-core context. In doing this, the article develops and offers a new analytical framework which breaks down the components of conceptions of 'the international' into three questions: 'what', 'who', and 'where' of world politicsnamely, the main dynamics of world politics, the main actors of world politics, and the location where world politics takes place. I utilize this framework to empirically analyze the election manifestos and party programs of the political parties in Turkey, and tease out their conceptions of 'the international.' The article concludes by considering the implications of these findings for IR scholarship in general.

Bu makalenin gelişimindeki değerli katkıları için Hakan Sipahioğlu'na, Neslihan Dikmen-Alsancak'a ve Uluslararası İlişkiler dergisi hakemlerine teşekkür ederim.

We would like to thank to the editors of the special issue, Pinar Bilgin, and Zeynep Gülşah Çapan, and the anonymous reviewers for their valuable suggestions on the paper. We would also like to thank Hakan Sipahioğlu, Gözde Turan, and Filipe dos Reis for their comments and feedbacks on the earlier drafts.

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