By Sofiane Marceau El Banine 2024 IS A PIVOTAL YEAR. Never before have so many elections taken place at the same time, especially in such a context of uncertainty and radicality. All over the world, tensions arise between countries that recover the idea of empire and hegemony to lead their…
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By Bénédicte Poirot Essayist, journalist, political advisor, MEP, how Raphaël Glucksmann hopes to win votes by doing “everything at once”. Raphaël Glucksmann, the man Raphaël Glucksmann is the leader of the French Socialist Party list for the 2024 European Election. The strategy put forward by the candidate is to get…
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By Tekle Makashvili and Salome Berdzenishvili “PEOPLE’S RIVER will never stop flowing, flowing from the country’s heart,” reads the long fabric banner on the streets, protesting the Russian regime in Tbilisi, Georgia. The country, situated in the Caucasus, has been independent for more than thirty turbulent years since the collapse…
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By Ambassador René Nyberg René Nyberg, former Finnish Ambassador to Vienna, Moscow and Berlin, expert in Nordic security and well acquainted with the Soviet-Russian diplomatic milieu, addressed the following speech during the Ambassador Brunch held the 20th May of 2024 by the Uppsala Association of Foreign Affairs at the Uppsala…
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The UF Uppsala Travel Group, together with UPF Växjö, visited Oslo and its surroundings in May 2024. They provided Uttryck with some insights from their weekend. WE ARRIVED in Oslo at noon on Friday, ready to explore the city. After we checked in to our hostel, we went to visit…
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On the 15th of May of 2024, the Uppsala Association of Foreign Affairs, in collaboration with the Philosophical Union in Uppsala, welcomed Dr. Isaac Taylor, Associate Senior Lecturer in Practical Philosophy at Stockholm University, to discuss about the illusions in the ethics of war. For nearly as long as humans…
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The UF Travel Group visited Kyrgyzstan and Kazakhstan in April 2024. They provided Uttryck with the journal of their adventures. AFTER A LONG DAY of travelling and a night spent on the aeroplane, we arrived in Bishkek, the capital of Kyrgyzstan. As many of us were tired, we decided to…
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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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