By Magnus Lundström The plane took a sharp right turn over Tokyo Bay and the afternoon sun was reflected in its left wing. After a few minutes of precision manoeuvring, the plane’s landing gear touched the tarmac of Haneda Airport’s landing strip. I had never previously been in Japan, despite an enduring interest in East Asia. The main purpose of…
By Magnus Lundström “Make America Great Again” was the slogan that brought Donald Trump to the White House in 2016. He conceptualized and incarnated the frustration and desire to return American society to the supposed ‘glory days’ of the 1950s and 1960s. President Trump promised many things, from a ban…
By Magnus Lundström On March 10th, 2017, the president of South Korea,…
By Magnus Lundström International justice is the ability for the international community…
By Magnus Lundström The plane took a sharp right turn over Tokyo Bay and the afternoon sun was reflected in its left wing. After a few minutes of precision manoeuvring, the plane’s landing gear touched the tarmac of Haneda Airport’s landing strip. I had never previously been in Japan, despite…
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By Magnus Lundström “Make America Great Again” was the slogan that brought Donald Trump to the White House in 2016. He conceptualized and incarnated the frustration and desire to return American society to the supposed ‘glory days’ of the 1950s and 1960s. President Trump promised many things, from a ban…
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By Magnus Lundström On March 10th, 2017, the president of South Korea, Park Geun-hye (see picture above) was impeached by the Supreme Court. A few months earlier, in December 2016, the Korean parliament voted for this impeachment following weeks of massive demonstrations in Seoul and other places in the country. The…
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By Magnus Lundström International justice is the ability for the international community to punish criminals for committing atrocities. To many countries, this is perfectly reasonable. To others, this sounds strange and threatening to their national legal system. The International Criminal Court (ICC) is located in The Hague, Netherlands, and has…
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By Magnus Lundström Western media and society have a tendency to focus on one thing at the time. In most instances, their choice is of the most pressing and current issue in the world. Or more accurately: the most pressing and current issue in the western world. This is of…
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Political Dramas on Both Sides of the Pacific By Magnus Lundström One could safely say that the rest of the world was in a state of shock. All opinion polls turned out to be wrong, and when the smoke and dust from the battlefield was settling, the real-estate billionaire, Donald…
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A plunge into South Korean economy, politics and social culture.…
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