By Eva Forslund Everyday you meet at least one new person. Every night there are numerous parties, to which you are unsure whether you are invited. Everyone seems to already know one another, or maybe everyone else is just a little more socially adept than you? Anyone in a new setting recognizes these feelings and questions. It might make you…
By Eva Forslund Everyday you meet at least one new person. Every night there are numerous parties, to which you are unsure whether you are invited. Everyone seems to already know one another, or maybe everyone else is just a little more socially adept than you? Anyone in a new…
Read MoreBy Max Karpefors & Eva Forslund Who is Trita Parsi? Apart from being Uppsala University’s Alumni of the year 2016, that is. He is the founder and president of the National Iranian American Council (NIAC), an organization strengthening the Iranian-American community’s involvement in politics and civic society. Trita Parsi played…
Read MoreBy Eva Forslund In the process of creating this issue, we asked a number of UF members what justice means to them. Their answers varied somewhat, but they all seemed to agree that defining the term ‘justice’ is difficult. On the other hand, the writers in this issue keep returning…
Read MoreEnding the United States’ war on drugs could be easy. In order to do that, however, we have to understand the way in which drug gangs, cartels, and trade work. The drug trade is a global market with a turnover of around 300 billion dollars a year. It is not…
Read MoreDet första jag slogs av när jag kom till Kuba var hur äkta allt var.…
Read MoreLibertarianism är idén om att människor bör garanteras både omfattande individuella rättigheter samt ha stor ekonomisk frihet. Libertarianismen skiljer sig från liberalismen framförallt i att den ofta är mer radikal. Den största skillnaden mellan liberalism och libertarianism är nog ändå att libertarianismen är vanligare i USA som term. Skälet till…
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