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Energy is one of the significant factors of economic growth and development. Accelerating technological developments in the global world has increased energy consumption. Nowadays, renewable alternative energy sources are high on the agenda due to the limited energy resources. This study aims to predict the future of the global energy consumption and world energy distribution scenario and reveal investment opportunities and employment results in Turkey using the projections of the current situation and future expectations. For this purpose, the relevant data obtained from the Enerdata database for the world energy distribution in the period of 2000-2050, specific to Europe, Asia, Africa, the Middle East, North America, Latin America, CIS (Commonwealth of Independent States), and the Pacific, were compared, and the situation of Turkey in this process has been analyzed descriptively with specific indicators. According to the results, although renewable energy production investments have increased in Turkey, oil, natural gas, and coal still occupy a considerable place in the total energy supply, and the share of renewable resources such as wind and sun is very insufficient and should increase gradually. However, it has been found that the part of renewable energy sources in electricity production and primary energy consumption would rise and provide new employment opportunities with technological developments. The results are expected to provide fruitful information to policymakers, project developers, investors, industries, and relevant stakeholders.

2012 yılında kabul edilen 6360 sayılı kanunla birlikte idari yapıda, mali sistemde, siyasal coğrafyada önemli değişiklikler olmuştur. Bu önemli değişikliklerden biri de büyükşehir olan illerde il özel idarelerinin kaldırılıp yatırım izleme ve koordinasyon başkanlıklarının (YİKOB) kurulmasıdır. Büyükşehir olan illerde il özel idarelerinin kaldırılıp YİKOB'ların kurulması, YİKOB'ların il özel idarelerinin devamı olduğu yönünde tartışmalara neden olmaktadır. 2016 yılında YİKOB'lara tüzel kişilik kazandırılması ve yeni büyükşehir belediyelerinin kurulması ihtimali bu tartışmaları farklı bir boyuta taşımaktadır.

Bu çalışma, il özel idareleri ile YİKOB'ları mevcut yapı, işleyiş ve sorunları yönünden karşılaştırarak, YİKOB'ların Türk kamu yönetimi sistemi içerisindeki yerini anlamayı amaçlamaktadır. Bu kapsamda Uşak İl Özel İdaresi ve Manisa YİKOB'daki katılımcılar ile nitel görüşme tekniğinden yararlanılarak il özel idareleri ve YİKOB'ların kurum algısı, görev, yetki ve sorumlulukları, teşkilat ve mali yapısı, hizmet sunumu, merkezileşme ve yerelleşme boyutu, tanınma problemi ile ilgili konular üzerinden karşılaştırmalı olarak analiz edilmiştir.

In this study, it is aimed to investigate the effect of renewable energy consumption on economic growth in BRICS countries and Turkey. In this context, panel data analysis in the form of coefficient estimates and causality analysis was applied using annual data for the period 1990-2018. Within the scope of the determinants of economic growth, besides the renewable energy consumption variable which forms the basis of the study, the variables of capital accumulation, population, trade openness, foreign direct investments and non-renewable energy consumption are also used. According to the coefficient estimation results made with the fixed effects model, it has been determined that the increase in renewable energy consumption has negative and significant effects on economic growth. On the other hand, it has been determined that the increase in non-renewable energy consumption has a positive effect. In addition, it is among the findings that the increase in capital accumulation has a positive effect on economic growth and the increase in trade openness has a negative effect. Finally, Dumitrescu-Hurlin (2012) panel causality test results revealed that there is a unidirectional causality relationship from renewable energy consumption to economic growth. Accordingly, it was seen that the growth hypothesis was valid among the variables.

Sukuk markets have made significant progress both in terms of market volumes and international awareness in recent years. These financial products are specially designed for investors who avoid interest gain. On the other hand, it is an ongoing issue in the literature whether these markets are a useful alternative for conventional fixed income investors as well. Our main purpose is to explore sukuk market as an investment alternative for conventional fixed income market investors' points of view. Since the integration of assets is one of the key criteria for portfolio investments, this study investigated the long-term comovements between sukuk and other fixed-income indexes via Johansen and Engle-Granger cointegration technique. To proxy international fixed income portfolio, international bond indexes which are prepared by FTSE (Financial Times Stock Exchange Group) are employed. Besides, the vector error correction model is also applied to deepen the results. According to the findings, there is a limited causality in the long run between sukuk markets and conventional bond markets. This can make international sukuk assets highly beneficial diversification alternative to conventional bond portfolios. The study aims to contribute to the literature by examining the benefits of sukuk markets as an investment alternative to conventional, wide-range fixed income markets.

This study attempts to examine the impact of human rights and economic growth by utilizing two measures of economic growth for developing countries and an unbalanced data spanning from 1961-2017. The hypothesis of the study asserts that improvement in human right protection score increases economic growth in an economy. Firstly I conducted panel unit root test to see if the variables are stationary. After verifying the stationarity of variables at levels (i.e., I(0)) based on panel unit root tests, empirical estimations were conducted without the fear of potential spurious regression problem. According to the estimation results, in parallel to prior expectations, positive statistically significant effect on economic growth was identified for the variables of human right protection, physical capital investment, education investment, openness whereas negative statistically significant effect on economic growth was identified for the variable of inflation in all models estimated. Estimation results indicate that countries trying to reach to higher economic growth, besides the other determinants of economic growth, must pay attention to human right protection and implement policies that prioritizing human right protection.

The Next Revolution: Popular Assemblies and the Promise of Direct Democracy, orijinal ismiyle 2015 yılında yayınlanan bu eser Debbie Bookchin ve Blair Taylor tarafından yayına hazırlanarak okuyuculara sunulmuştur. Eserin önsözü Ursula K. Le Guin tarafından kaleme alınmış ve toplamda dokuz bölümden oluşmuştur. Bookchin, halk meclislerinin toplumu beşeri yönde dönüştürücü gücüne ekolojik beledî bir projeyle yaklaşmaktadır. Kapitalizmin yerelden küresele uzanan yıkıcı etkisinden kurtulma konusunda halk meclislerine birtakım görevler düşmektedir. Özellikle yerel çehrede komünalist bir projeyle kapitalizmin yıkıcı etkisinden kurtulmak mümkündür. Bu projenin yaygın bir etki yaratması adına akılcı, yerel demokrasi temasında liberter beledî bir ekosistem oluşturmak artık kaçınılmazdır. Bookchin'in tezahür ettiği proje, tahrip olan ekolojinin doğrudan demokrasiyle yeniden sorgulanmasını mümkün kılmaktadır.

The Islamic intellectual thought of the thirteenth to nineteenth centuries has long been represented as an intellectual "decadence" or "sclerosis," due to the discourse of orientalists. In recent decades, however, researchers have sought to challenge the orientalist paradigm by highlighting the scholarly currents and vigorous discussions that characterized the period in question. As a direct critique of the narratives of either "decline" or "ignorance" that persist in Islamic intellectual historiography, Naser Dumairieh's recent book attempts to reveal the situation of rational and theoretical sciences in the Hijāz by focusing on the life and work of al-Kūrānī, the seventeenth-century Shāfi'ī hadith scholar, Sufi, and theologian. Following the footsteps of Khaled el-Roauyheb's influential book Islamic Intellectual History in the Seventeenth Century, Dumairieh not only examines al-Kūrānī's ideas, but also offers a comprehensive glimpse into the intellectual life in contemporary Hijāz.

The attempt and competition of the Industrial Revolution to find new markets brought the Danube River and its hinterland into the world capitalist system. Danube governments such as Serbia, Wallachia, and Moldavia followed a balanced policy between Ottoman-Austria and Russia in the 18th and 19th centuries. However, following the Crimean War, the region has become an area of economic, political, and military competition between France and England. After the Crimean War, the liberalization of commercial shipping on the Danube and its branches to all nations made these waters attractive to Western shipping navigation companies. The big Powers like Austria, Russia, France, and Great Britain initiated competition and risks which deeply affected the region. The research setup is on a new technology entering the region and the French capital investments and competition spreaded fort he first time through this technology. In this context this study attempts to explore the rivalries of French merchants and investors to expand in the Danube River and its hinterland. It especially deals with the steamship management attempts of the ambitious and adventurous naval officer Captain Michel André François Bonerin Magnan (Aubagne 1819-Paris 1866).

The facet of territorial and military ambitions began to lose its importance with the states starting to specialize in high value-added and intangible assets. Richard Rosecrance endeavored to formulate a novel development method for these relatively small-scale states. Instead of developing an immense domestic manufacturing capacity with traditional production methods, these 'virtual' states have followed a knowledge, artificial intelligence, and innovation-based development that emphasizes investment, high added value, and the mobility of intangible assets. Although some states did not wholly fit into the virtual state framework within the scope of Rosecrance's definition, they carried some of its characteristics. This study claims that Qatar, which has succeeded in establishing a sphere of influence beyond its borders and population, has some virtual state characteristics by merging its rich hydrocarbon resources with technology and innovation. After a theoretical review, the study claims that Qatar's virtual state characteristics have considerably mitigated the deleterious effects of the embargo imposed on Qatar by four Arab countries in 2017. The final part expands the Qatar-Turkey relationship that comes to the forefront as the field of applying these characteristics from an economic and financial perspective, contrary to the prevailing ideology and politics-based studies in the literature.

This study focuses on the changes witnessed in social life throughout the Covid-19 epidemic period, particularly how the pandemic affected religious institutions. The study, which employs psychosocial analysis, investigates the alteration of social and religious life in the presence of diverse social psychology theories. During and after the epidemic, religion strives to adapt to fluid change and tries to produce a new form of belief and religiosity that will soothe anxious people, in contrast to its traditional form, in a process of radical change and social erosion in which discourses such as 'nothing will be the same as before' are frequently voiced. The fact that religion and religiosity are pregnant with new manifestations throughout the epidemic process might be regarded as an adaptation reaction or a crucial reaction to the synthetic alteration that has already begun to be felt. Religion aims to achieve a shape that takes care of the changing requirements of the person and directs his life by keeping its unchanging principles. He even took the risk of mixing secular, metaphysical, astrological, and paranormal components within himself to achieve this goal. Finally, contrary to standard secularization theorists' forecasts that religion will vanish, religion will evolve after the pandemic and continue to exist in a society that will become even more digital, a form of post-corona religiosity. By stressing the transition dynamics experienced during the epidemic era, it is intended that the research would create new topics of discussion and contribute to the field of sociology.

Since investor interest is not a directly measurable concept, search engine and social media data can be used to measure active investor interest. Google search volume data has the potential to help customers, investors, and policymakers make better decisions. When looking for information to make investment decisions, investors consider Google trends as they provide news about changes in prices. Studies examining investor interest in the literature have often been carried out with the applications of linear models. This suggests that possible structural changes are not taken into account in the time series. When we look at the literature, it has been shown that the prediction performance of nonlinear models is better than linear models. In addition, it is seen that the studies conducted to investigate the relationship between the return of the stock markets and the trading volume and the investor interest are frequently included in the international literature. In contrast, the studies are limited in the national literature. In this direction of the study, the relationship between the trade volume and the investor's discovery of information on the stock market by Google is examined through linear and nonlinear econometric techniques in the investor reputation hypothesis. According to the investor reputation hypothesis, investors only invest in stocks they are aware of without adequate research and knowledge. In this context, the study results were realized in a way that supports the investor recognition hypothesis within the scope of 2020. In the context of 2021, it is seen that it does not support the investor reputation hypothesis. In future studies to be carried out in this area, it seems possible to determine the degree of effect of nonlinear regression estimations and the relationship between variables.