MLA Commons | Yalın Akçevin | Activity https://mla.hcommons.org/members/yalinakcevin/activity/ Activity feed for Yalın Akçevin. Sat, 04 Apr 2026 02:31:00 -0400 https://buddypress.org/?v=10.6.0 en-US 30 hourly 2 9782a6a48c3397bd9073133832a17ee1 Yalın Akçevin's profile was updated https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1940132/ Mon, 05 Jan 2026 12:02:18 -0500 0 5dac8a9a4bd8d14682f99a4c5c9b5804 Yalın Akçevin's profile was updated https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1907576/ Sat, 28 Dec 2024 18:45:10 -0500 0 fb8a11a49701f3980bb5ac2ace98a6d6 Yalın Akçevin's profile was updated https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1890426/ Thu, 27 Jun 2024 18:05:45 -0400 0 b35f08289d23797b54fd70f0047bd992 Yalın Akçevin's profile was updated https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1875059/ Thu, 08 Feb 2024 12:58:59 -0500 0 d28b34d9fccc52f7e5478dced705cfcc Yalın Akçevin deposited A Look at China's Total Energy Supply (2020-2022 Data) https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1874508/ Sat, 03 Feb 2024 12:33:52 -0500 The aim of this pamphlet-style material is to provide an overview of China’s energy supply and consumption from various sources, as well as energy policy based on data from the 2020-2022 period.

]]> 0 e70532d8f0262ada14ccddca8ec28375 Yalın Akçevin deposited Yalın Akçevin - A Look at China's Total Energy Supply (2020-2022 Data) https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1874507/ Sat, 03 Feb 2024 12:28:23 -0500 The aim of this presentation is to provide an overview of China’s energy supply and consumption from various sources, as well as energy policy based on data from the 2020-2022 period.

]]> 0 526564e03d80d265c05e8d45e8a82c3f Yalın Akçevin deposited Book Review - The Two Cultures and the Scientific Revolution https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1874506/ Sat, 03 Feb 2024 12:02:11 -0500 I have deposited this as a “book review”, however, please note that this work was written for a graduate course titled “Area Studies”. Accordingly, the review does take a view towards the book a critical area view. 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.

]]> 0 5cdb35712a3dcdaecfe240855bbbde2c Yalın Akçevin's profile was updated https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1870916/ Sat, 13 Jan 2024 08:27:34 -0500 0 8db7ebd64751cacd1119fd12e2c87b9e Yalın Akçevin's profile was updated https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1863926/ Wed, 08 Nov 2023 11:11:02 -0500 0 5e71c7e4f17b637d88ec0c217dadc31c Yalın Akçevin's profile was updated https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1858706/ Sat, 16 Sep 2023 18:38:22 -0400 0 b6c2dba201db53cb56f1019002ab7f82 Yalın Akçevin's profile was updated https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1856469/ Fri, 25 Aug 2023 10:34:00 -0400 0 dd0c52d7f354ecc3b66e0d5385dc0932 Yalın Akçevin changed their profile picture https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1848132/ Sat, 03 Jun 2023 11:52:55 -0400 0 d8c366a8c37552098c2903ed37bc256c Yalın Akçevin's profile was updated https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1847337/ Fri, 26 May 2023 14:16:24 -0400 0 5ebbe060ba743b09389309bc139a1f96 Yalın Akçevin's profile was updated https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1837819/ Sat, 18 Mar 2023 15:24:45 -0400 0 41178e1d3edf1114b3a4f202dd13455e Yalın Akçevin's profile was updated https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1836689/ Tue, 07 Mar 2023 15:59:55 -0500 0 4cf2b1cc538f14d3d1b5913e870bdd43 Yalın Akçevin's profile was updated https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1825611/ Thu, 08 Dec 2022 09:38:44 -0500 0 4dc1716960c7a13690acb7109ec316c6 Yalın Akçevin's profile was updated https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1817686/ Sun, 16 Oct 2022 09:02:02 -0400 0 7f47f968906d7a811d0cc3c741f525e5 Yalın Akçevin's profile was updated https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1815750/ Thu, 29 Sep 2022 12:01:57 -0400 0 8dcac23065a2cb509fb4a1395497fdc2 Yalın Akçevin's profile was updated https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1737302/ Wed, 05 May 2021 13:16:57 -0400 0 4122efa20ad3571ff7a0db0f4ac4d7dc Yalın Akçevin deposited Wolf Warrior Diplomacy and Chinese Soft Power: K-Pop as a Testing Ground https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1732252/ Mon, 22 Mar 2021 09:34:11 -0400 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]

]]> 0 e621c7c1d6554be638f07efa83143242 Yalın Akçevin deposited Between Empire and Democracy - Japan’s Taishō Experience https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1731257/ Sat, 13 Mar 2021 11:21:57 -0500 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]

]]> 0 0513026e268ca992224ffb1f1e650bc3 Yalın Akçevin deposited The Karayuki-san of Japan https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1731254/ Sat, 13 Mar 2021 10:53:29 -0500 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]

]]> 0 94b1d7cddfe6e8591d098b5c6f6581ea Yalın Akçevin deposited The Abe-Trump Relationship https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1731253/ Sat, 13 Mar 2021 10:18:01 -0500 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]

]]> 0 b4a75881bdefde97b362bf5666d0de0c Yalın Akçevin deposited Crisis Length and Authoritarian Leader Behavior https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1723497/ Sun, 17 Jan 2021 13:20:41 -0500 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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]]> 0 795c1bd9bc93630af13df304adc5bf36 Yalın Akçevin deposited Space and Orientation in Etruscan Temples https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1723496/ Sun, 17 Jan 2021 12:48:03 -0500 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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]]> 0 39142f3a0d13d1708217fb02f4ffc9ed Yalın Akçevin deposited Book Review - "The Third Revolution - Xi Jinping and the New Chinese State" https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1706094/ Sun, 23 Aug 2020 15:43:26 -0400 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.

]]> 0 1bb8ecec24f59ae887eee19451f8210d Yalın Akçevin deposited Demography and Legitimacy: A Balancing Act in the Future of the Communist Party of China https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1706089/ Sun, 23 Aug 2020 15:34:49 -0400 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]

]]> 0 7ac646b29a9c21c9f74d1351c58dd2ca Yalın Akçevin deposited K-Pop: Going Global, Keeping Korean, Becoming Hybrid https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1705961/ Fri, 21 Aug 2020 14:33:07 -0400 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]

]]> 0 d94615d6460c67c6293d1d4a5a035520 Yalın Akçevin deposited Factions of the Jimintō: Intra-Party Democracy? https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1705944/ Fri, 21 Aug 2020 12:16:48 -0400 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]

]]> 0 db8a3b46eed415c59e33173836803ed2 Yalın Akçevin deposited Free and Open Indo-Pacific - A Strategy of Competition https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1705941/ Fri, 21 Aug 2020 11:54:44 -0400 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]

]]> 0 783d4e50eff8302b2294e9e6f2cb7929 Yalın Akçevin's profile was updated https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1690861/ Fri, 12 Jun 2020 12:17:04 -0400 0 36f64d400239ea66eddeefbc867e798c Yalın Akçevin deposited Of Gentlemen and Champions: The Japanese Colonial Empire https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1689795/ Thu, 04 Jun 2020 12:05:05 -0400 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]

]]> 0 bcde49a3a9b8902f8a7459334850979c Yalın Akçevin deposited Space in Etruscan Sacred Architecture and Its Implications on Use https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1689791/ Thu, 04 Jun 2020 11:32:06 -0400 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]

]]> 0 5b1acf8ed43ceb8f2f23269909154e22 Yalın Akçevin deposited Understanding the Impact of Crisis Length on Authoritarian Leaders https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1689789/ Thu, 04 Jun 2020 11:20:00 -0400 This study focuses on developing an understanding of the relationship between crisis length and leaders’ choices of different forms of – diplomatic, economic, or military – action in solving crises. The guiding question here is in what way does the length of a crisis affect authoritarian leaders’ choice between diplomatic, economic, or militar…[Read more]

]]> 0 f25d21252fc1c1f9c3fa54809b6e9b91 Yalın Akçevin deposited Capitalism and the Binary of Life https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1689781/ Thu, 04 Jun 2020 10:28:47 -0400 This study focuses on providing an analysis of the making of the planetary climate crisis, focusing on how our definition of the historical/ecological period which we living in right now and the way in which the forces that have created this condition have been conceptualized. This question is approached through a critical analysis of capitalism…[Read more]

]]> 0 57b0b5fc3f73e434cfc23de28def7d43 Yalın Akçevin deposited The (Western) Harem https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1688830/ Wed, 27 May 2020 20:35:39 -0400 This is a short researched essay on the topic of the Eastern – primarily Ottoman – harem, beneath the Western gaze. Please note that this was a short researched paper written for an undergraduate course titled “Sociology of Colonialism”. I have edited the file to remove any personal information – such as my student ID – and kept the body of the…[Read more]

]]> 0 f393c1cc5962157478df2cd608f06280 Yalın Akçevin deposited The Occupation and Americanization of Japan https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1688827/ Wed, 27 May 2020 20:24:19 -0400 This study will focus on the topic of “Americanizing” reforms carried out under the tenure of General MacArthur as SCAP, during the American Occupation of Japan. The guiding question here, asks in what ways the political and economic reforms carried out by the Occupation – specifically democratization, the new constitution, land reform, and zaiba…[Read more]

]]> 0 98c7b4e9672a4ad34914cae40d4b1a69 Yalın Akçevin deposited Xi Jinping's Shadow Over North Korea https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1688662/ Tue, 26 May 2020 19:36:18 -0400 This article deals with the question of Xi Jinping’s power and control over the People’s Republic of China’s relations with the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea, as a strong leader at the head of a “rising” China. Defined by Mao as being as close as lips and teeth, the relations between the two countries and who has the power to shape them…[Read more]

]]> 0 299299f3a69e7f4e02c1bb1a3983b4bf Yalın Akçevin deposited The Illusory Chaebol Republic https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1688661/ Tue, 26 May 2020 19:31:57 -0400 This article deals with the South Korean chaebols – whose economic power affords to them the position of economic elites – and their ties to the political structures of South Korea, questioning whether or not they could be defined as political elites as well. Given the intimate nature of economic and political power which can be seen on a global…[Read more]

]]> 0 cd04d773f3bd5964a9a9156042b92360 Yalın Akçevin deposited The Abe-Trump Relationship https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1688660/ Tue, 26 May 2020 19:25:14 -0400 This article deals with the personal relationship that has emerged between US President Donald Trump and Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, as a part of Abe’s foreign policy and analyzes its impact on Japan’s foreign relations and political-diplomatic prospects. As a key alliance in keeping the peace in the Asia-Pacific, the rise of personalized…[Read more]

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