SERHAN ÜNAL

Think of a mosquito in your bedroom flying over your head, whizzing around your ear all night. Let us take the situation into consideration from the International Relations (IR) perspective.. The hot summer days have embraced the northern hemisphere. In many countries, people sleep by leaving their windows open at night or keep their doors open during the day to cool their rooms. Yet, this situation may let in some uninvited guests who distort our peaceful sleep by entering into our houses: Mosquitoes! This essay will try to encapsulate the human-mosquito relations into the IR concepts by benefiting from a realistic scene in which there are a few people and a mosquito in a bedroom. The formers sleep (or try sleeping) and the latter hunts! How does IR see the game? First of all, it should be clarified why this scene presents an opportunity to employ the IR concepts. Simply, one who hears the whizz of a mosquito flying on top of his head all night tends to regard it as a ‘thre...