Av Anton Golovko Hjälm TURKIET HAR EMELLANÅT beskrivits som en bro mellan öst och väst, ett land som ligger i både Europa och Asien, som är både muslimskt och sekulärt. Detta är bilden som Turkiet själva har målat, och som Europeér sedan länge gärna har trott på. Men med Erdogan…
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By Eric Axner-Norrman In the year 123 CE, during the reign of Emperor Hadrian, three strangers met at the Roman city of Ostia. Seated, overlooking the sea, they began to discuss their similarities and differences, as they were part of the same Roman world. Titus Africanus, a middle-aged skipper with…
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Av Simon Davidsson Martin doktorerade från Handelshögskolan i Stockholm år 2009. Han har sedan dess bland annat blivit docent på institutet för Ryssland- och Eurasiensstudier vid Uppsala universitet. Han tillbringar i dagsläget sin huvudsakliga tid som biträdande chef för Centrum för Östeuropastudier vid Utrikespolitiska institutet (UI), där han varit verksam…
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By Erik Carlqvist AS PLANET EARTH CONTINUES to warm up as the climate crisis unfolds, a major transformation in the Arctic is underway. The Arctic ice continues to melt, meaning that the ocean in the High North sees dramatic changes, altering the dynamics of geopolitics, trade, and global security. This…
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By Anton Golovko Hjälm THE END OF HISTORY theory dictates that all nations, in all parts of the world, are on a natural, if slow-moving, trajectory towards freedom and liberal democracy. Emerging into a globalised world, European leaders embraced this disputed theory as their mantra and adjusted their actions accordingly…
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By Quentin Machado PRESIDENT MACRON HAS ALWAYS championed the European Union’s independence. Personally convinced of a world order founded on multilateralism and the “Strategic Autonomy” of the Old Continent relying on increased capabilities, the first diplomat of France travelled restlessly around the globe to promote his standpoint on all occasions,…
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By Samia Jemal & Simon Thernström The Ethiopian Ambassador in Sweden, Mehreteab Mulugeta, visited the Association of Foreign Affairs to speak about recent talks of Ethiopia’s inclusion in BRICS. Uttryck met with the Ambassador to discuss the broader implications for local development and global geopolitics that Ethiopia’s BRICS membership entails.…
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By Kate Gilbertson GLOBALISATION HAS INCREASED awareness of the greater world as communication and trade across borders have eased. In other words, we are more connected than ever before. Yet conversations on the impacts of globalisation have insofar neglected the critical discussion on how the most fundamental, local forms of…
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Av Sofia Carlsson Jag sjunker ner på golvet bakom sovrumsdörren och andas tyst in den svala luften. Här verkar ingen ha tittat in ikväll. Hoppas att det förblir så. Du borde inte ha dykt upp, hur kunde hon säga så? Vinet hade fastnat i halsen och bröstkorgen slutat röra sig.…
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By Celine Hedin BUSINESSMEN IN BLACK SUITS walking by with hurried steps, students in uniforms with heavy backpacks and books in their hands, men and women patiently standing in line to enter the subway trains – compartments already almost filled to the brim. Standing squeezed between the faces of strangers…
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