Mustafa Onur Yalçın is a research assistant at Middle East Institute (ORMER), Sakarya University. He received his bachelor's and master's degrees in International Relations at Eskişehir Osmangazi University. His MA thesis is titled as "The Effect of Japanese Strategic Culture on Foreign Policy-Making: Shinzo Abe Period". Now, he is studying his PhD in International Security and Terror at Ankara Yıldırım Beyazıt University. His research interests are IR Theory, Security Studies, FPA, East Asia and Middle East politics, Japan-Muslim World relations.

Books / Book Sections

• "Türk Dış Politikasında Japon İmgesi", 21. Yüzyılda ASYA-PASİFİK: Bölgesel Politikalar-Uluslararası Sorunlar-Yeni Aktörler, ed. Sanem Özer, Senem Atvur, Ramazan İzol (Ankara: Seçkin Yayıncılık, 2017), ss. 469-480.

Book Reviews/Critics

• Yalçın, Mustafa Onur. Reviewed Work: From Empire to Republic: The Role of American Missionaries in US-Ottoman Empire Relations and Their Educational Legacy by Hacer Bahar, Insight Turkey, vol. 22, no. 2, 2020, pp. 231–233.

Conferences & Presentations

• "Japon Dış Politikasında Stratejik Kültürün Değişimi: Meiji Döneminden Shinzô Abe Dönemine", Akdeniz University 4th International, International Relations Congress, Akdeniz Üniversitesi, 2017.
• "Russo-Japanese War and Its Effects on the Muslims of Eurasia", The 4th International Conference on Eurasian Politics & Society (IEPAS2017), CESRAN International, İstanbul, 2017.
• "Japon Stratejik Kültürünün Dış Politika Yapımına Etkisi: Shinzo Abe Dönemi", Asya-Pasifik Çalışmalarında Yeni Ufuklar Çalıştayı, Marmara Üniversitesi, Mayıs, 2018.
• "ASEAN Way of Security Culture: Promoting Collective Security in Asia-Pacific", UİAP-UİT, Bolu, 2019.
• Sula & Yalcin, "Global Threats yet Local Responses: Limitations of and suggestion on the governance of global catastrophic risks", ISA 2021 Annual Convention, 2021.