Chinese diplomacy in 2020 has been observed as moving towards a more assertive and aggressive position, which has been branded “wolf warrior diplomacy”. Wolf warrior diplomacy is geared at employing a much more proactive approach in defending the image and position of China in the international arena, whose full effects and scope are yet to be ana…[Read more]

The Taishō democracy period of early 20th century – then Imperial – Japan appears to observers today as a period, in between two imperialisms, where parties, politicians, and the Imperial Diet seemed to be on the path to becoming the dominant political powers in Imperial Japan. However, this period of “democracy” and parliamentarism was…[Read more]

This presentation aims to explore and understand the identities of the karayuki-san who became sex workers across the Pacific Rim in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, arguing that the karayuki-san were an integral part of the process and experience of modernization in Japan. The karayuki-san have been seen as both soldiers of the empire and…[Read more]

Please note that this was a presentation meant to accompany a term paper titled “The Abe-Trump Relationship” for the graduate course “Japan’s International Relations” which can be accessed here: http://dx.doi.org/10.17613/4zj8-y725 I have edited the file to remove any personal information and updated the presentation to be more reflective of the…[Read more]

Please note that this was a presentation meant to accompany a term paper titled “Understanding the Impact of Crisis Length on Authoritarian Leaders” for the undergraduate course “Leaders in International Relations” which can be accessed here: http://dx.doi.org/10.17613/wpnm-tf73

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Please note that this was a presentation meant to accompany a term paper titled “Space in Etruscan Sacred Architecture and Its Implications on Use” for the undergraduate course “The Etruscans” which can be accessed here: http://dx.doi.org/10.17613/7gta-x732

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I have deposited this as a “book review”, however, please note that this was a term paper written for a graduate course titled “China’s International Relations”. I have edited the file to remove any personal information – such as my student ID – and kept the body of the work intact in terms of content.

I have deposited this as an “essay”, however, please note that this was a term paper written for a graduate course titled “China’s International Relations”. I have edited the file to remove any personal information – such as my student ID – and kept the body of the work intact in terms of content. This should be read as an essay/informed opinion…[Read more]

This article aims at understanding the identity of K-Pop as a Korean product gone global and to describe the nature of the social space that has been created around it. The approach employed in this paper is holistic, in that it takes into account the creation, distribution, and consumption of K-Pop as integral elements in the making of K-Pop and…[Read more]

The factions of Japan’s Liberal Democratic Party (LDP or Jimintō) have received ample attention from academics, given their position as the power holders and brokers of Japan, which has allowed them to shape and direct the political scene of post-war modern Japan. Factions have been described as tools of electoral success and career ad…[Read more]

This article provides an analysis on the Free and Open Indo-Pacific (FOIP) Strategy, seeking to explain its foundations, define its key terms and the rationale and implications behind its choices of terminology, and look into the guiding values and ultimate aims of the FOIP strategy. Although US action under the Trump presidency has been framed…[Read more]

This study focuses on the development of the Japanese colonial empire and the parallel changes in Imperial Japan’s internal political attitudes and sensibilities with particular emphasis on the changes in the political orientations of the Japanese leadership, over the framework of discussion provided by Nakae Chōmin’s “A Discourse on Govern…[Read more]

Space is no doubt an important subject for the Etruscan religion, whether in the inauguration of cities and sacred areas, or in the divination of omens through the Piacenza liver in divided spaces of a sacrificial liver. It is then understandable that in the architecture and layout of the temples and sacred places, the usage of space, bears…[Read more]