On the 24th of April of 2024, the Uppsala Association of Foreign Affairs welcomed Karl Yves Vallin, Managing Director at RFSL Utbildning, a Swedish NGO, to discuss about the setback faced by the LGBTQ+ community in Indonesia. Indonesia, the worlds largest Muslim-majority country, demonstrated a high level of openness towards…
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By Erik Carlqvist THE WORLD IN 2024 is far from stable. With multiple ongoing conflicts, violations of international law and norms, and democratic decline, the future seems uncertain. In these respects, Taiwan; the non-recognized, de facto independent democracy in East Asia awakes interest and can be seen as a main…
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Av Anton Golovko Hjälm DEN EUROPEISKA UNIONEN är ett nätverk av politisk och ekonomisk natur som sträcker sig över en kontinent. Dess syften är ädla: den ämnar att föra länder närmare varandra. Öppna gränser och sänkta barriärer tillåter ett korsande och tvärsande utbyte av varor, människor, idéer. Regelbundna möten och…
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By Eric Axner-Norrman This is a fictional travel account from the equally fictitious Central European country of Transmontia, which recently became the first nation to give up its nationhood by a people’s veto. IF MANY PEOPLE inhabiting regions within the borders of current nations had their way, plenty more independent…
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By Yan Yusef IN 2011, FRENCH POLITICIAN Marine Le Pen was elected to succeed her father as leader of the National Front (later National Rally) party. Her campaign consists of assertions that the people of France (by which she means those whose family history is entirely French) are being taken…
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By Emma Hansson “ART IS NOT SUPPOSED to change the world, to change practical things, but to change perceptions. Art can change the way we see the world”. This is how the french artist JR gave grounds for his illegal street art exhibitions, such as his 2007 Face2Face project on…
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By Ludwig Nordin THE BANNER OF THE SOVIET UNION waved proudly over the cities of Central Asia only 33 years ago. By that time, the countries of Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Uzbekistan, Tajikistan, and Turkmenistan had been governed by Russians for over 100 years. The countries are now independent, but Russia has…
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By Laura Andrea De Alba Huerta and Quentin Machado ON THE EVE OF THE 2016 US ELECTION, the republican candidate Donald Trump made his first international headline with his campaign promise to build a wall throughout the border with Mexico. During the last French election in 2022, the far-right candidate…
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By Simon Davidson, with support from the UF Travel Group IN THE PAST MONTHS, news and social media have been flooded with pictures of soldiers, terrorists, and crying civilians. A brutal war goes on between Israel and Palestine, a conflict with roots from when the British ruled the area as…
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By Anton Golovko Hjälm WHEN THE BOLSHEVIKS dissolved the Constituent Assembly of Russia, they did so reasoning that the “will of the people” expressed itself through revolutionary action, rather than debates in parliament. Under the slogan “All power to the Soviets!” Vladimir Lenin proclaimed that to share power with an…
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