International Organization and Global Governance, Nejat Doğan,Volkan Şeyşane, Editör, Anadolu Üniversitesi, Eskişehir, ss.34-61, 2019
Scholars have
generally resorted to domestic analogy in their attempt to define order and put
forward their arguments about how that order may be sustained and promoted.
This is basically the method of looking at the domestic level, deducing general
conclusions on how order has been sustained and promoted at the domestic level,
and applying those conclusions to the international level. In a recent book on
world-order proposals, Hidemi Suganami defines domestic analogy as follows:
“presumptive reasoning which holds that there are certain similarities between
domestic and international phenomena; that, in particular, the conditions of
order within states are similar to those of order between them; and that
therefore those institutions which sustain order domestically should be
reproduced at the international level” (Suganami, 1989: 1). Through the
domestic analogy reasoning one can conclude that world order is associated with
a governable system where relations among the constituent units are managed
through peaceful means. For example, Inis L. Claude argues that world order
“refers to the dependable absence of war or of intimidation by the threat of
coercion. Stated positively, world order is a condition of the system, marked
by the high probability that international relations will be peacefully
managed. It suggests cosmos rather than chaos, settled patterns of behavior
rather than unpredictability, and agreed rather than forced decisions” (Claude,
1990: 31-32).