Bör man ta Bidens uttalanden på allvar?

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Uttalanden från USA:s president Joe Biden har förändrat förhållandet mellan USA, Kina och Taiwan. Hur ställer sig USA i händelse av en kinesisk invasion av Taiwan? Under en intervju med det amerikanska nyhetsbolaget CBS i september förra året fick USA:s president, Joe Biden, frågan om USA kommer att försvara Taiwan vid en kinesisk invasion av ön. Biden svarade med ett tydligt ja. På följdfrågan om det innebär att USA kommer att skicka egna militära styrkor till Taiwan svarade presidenten återigen…

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The Shadow Archives of the Middle East

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Secret humanitarian database systems, social media filtering and everyday citizen journalists. The invisible struggle keeping hope alive – where none is in sight.…

Coming Home: Treasuring Cultures and Their Foods

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Undoubtedly, a central part of any culture revolves around taking the time to gather around and share a meal with a community, whether it be with friends or family. So why is food especially important to people who live in a cultural diaspora?…

Den privilegierade apatin

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Av Selma Brodrej Den värsta av tider är här. Aprilångesten pulserar. Varje år är det likadant. När ni läser detta är det redan över. Men i skrivande stund känns det så otroligt långt borta. Ljuset i tunneln är i princip obefintligt. I takt med knopparna som brister, solen som börjar…

Money as God, Consumerism as Religion

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In our enlightened times, the sentence “We don’t want to anger the gods” sounds preposterous, yet what about the sentence “We don’t want to upset the global economy”? We pride ourselves on being a modern, secular, and rational society, yet our modernity is ruled by just another god: Money.…

KOBANI BEFORE THE HURRICANE Part I

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It is late August in Kobani, northern Syria, and the streets around Peace Square are full of people. Meanwhile, the bus station stands almost deserted, since there is nowhere else to go from this besieged enclave.…

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Interview with Robert E. Kelley: The Zaporizhzhia Power Plant and Putin’s Finger on the Big Red Button

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This month, the Alva Myrdal Centre for Nuclear Disarmament held its first annual conference in light of the developments in Ukraine. Uttryck’s Lycke Holmén met Robert E. Kelley at the Department of Peace and Conflict Research to talk about the latest developments around the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant.…

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Radio UF: Rwanda

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In the first episode of the semester, Radio UF is hosted by Jenny and Benjamin from the UF Travel Group. Earlier this summer, the group visited Rwanda. They tell us all about their trip and what they learned about this country… but beware! You will be very tempted to by…

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On the Waterfront

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By Eric Axner-Norrman Have a look at a map of the world, and soon you will discover that the large landmasses that constitute our continents are surrounded by even larger bodies of water. Dry land is an exception rather than rule on our planet. All along stretches of coasts, shorelines…

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