VID VÄGS ÄNDE - Om handeln med vilda djur Handel med hotade djurarter har en stor utbredning i världen, där kriminella nätverk tjänar stora pengar på tjuvjakt. Handeln utgör ett direkt hot mot den biologiska mångfalden och djurens rättigheter. Ämnet har blivit angeläget för världspolitisk debatt....
Gambia’s democratic transition – and other trends regarding regime change in Sub-Saharan Africa: The last presidential election in Gambia, in December 2016, paved the way for a change of power, when Adama Barrow, joint candidate of the seven opposition parties won the elections and the former...
Samtal med utrikesminister Margot Wallström: Den 15 februari presenterar utrikesminister Margot Wallström 2017 års utrikesdeklarationen i riksdagen. Den utrikespolitiska dagen är en möjlighet för studenter att ställa frågor om Sveriges utrikespolitiska prioriteringar till utrikesminister Margot Wallström och en panel med UD-tjänstemän. Samma dag besöker utrikesministern Uppsala...
Kassem Hamadé, journalist och expert på Syrienkonflikten, har sedan början av den Arabiska våren bevakat samtliga krigsdrabbade länder i Mellanöstern på plats. Hamadé är dessutom den enda svenska journalisten som intervjuat Bashar al-Assad och IS-ledaren Abu Bakr al-Baghdadis ex-fru. Sedan fyra år tillbaka är han...
UPPSALA ASSOCIATION OF INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS AND UPPSALA FORUM WELCOMES YOU TO A TWO PART LECTURE ON THE 3RD AND 6TH OF FEBRUARY (FREE FOR EVERYONE) Contrary to prior polling, projections from experts and the majority of the world’s expectations, Donald J. Trump won the presidential election of...
Paying for a taxi ride in Nairobi is now easier than in New York. This is thanks to Kenya’s revolutionary mobile-money system, M-PESA, that is world-leading in the field. The system has spread to big parts of the developing world, and has had a profound...
PANEL DISCUSSION: Where is Turkey heading? The coup attempt in Turkey last summer failed but the country is far from stable, the attempt became the start of a series of events that has drawn the attention of the world. The human right situation deteriorated markedly following...
On 28 June 2016, Sweden was elected as a non-permanent member of the UN Security Council for the 2017–2018 term. In 2017 Sweden will take its seat on the Security Council with the five permanent members – China, France, Great Britain, Russia and the United...
Spring is approaching and so is our first Uttryck event of the semester - yey! We are happy to announce that political editor of Upsala Nya Tidning and former member of parliament, Håkan Holmberg, is coming to talk to us about how to go from an...
Welcome to the first lecture in 2017! In April 2014 Boko Haram, the Islamic extremist group based in North-Eastern Nigeria, kidnapped 276 school girls from the town of Chibok in Northern Nigeria. The crimes have drawn the world's attention on the brutal IS-linked group and the...