October 18 – Swedish Ambitions in the Security Council
Sweden has since 2017 been a member of the United Nations Security Council and has for two terms held the presidency of the Council. During this period a number of historic world events have happened like the withdrawal of the United States from the Paris agreement and the possibility of a denuclearisation of the Korean […]
Förbud mot våldsbejakande grupper? – Oktober 4
FN-föreningen och Utrikespolitiska föreningen i Uppsala inbjuder till paneldiskussion om förbud för våldsbejakande grupper. Eventet sker i samarbete med Juridiska fakulteten vid Uppsala universitet. Fri entré. Moderator: Anne Ramberg – Generalsekreterare för Sveriges advokatsamfund Panelen består av: Anna Jonsson Cornell – Professor i komparativ konstitutionell rätt vid Juridiska fakulteten i Uppsala Jan Scherman – […]
October 1 – Diplomacy in a New Digital Landscape
What is digital diplomacy practice and what is its role in international politics today? Is Donald Trump’s Twitter use really defining digital diplomacy and what are the implications of the increasing number of world leaders ”going digital”? Since 2010, digital diplomacy has become an increasingly used but contested term and practice in international politics. […]
September 27 – Zimbabwe after Mugabe: Old Wine in New Bottles?
In November 2017, 93-year old Robert Mugabe was after 38 years as Zimbabwe’s head of state forced out of office by the military. Since then expectations have been high that a more liberal era would enter and Zimbabwe might recover from the economic decline. The parliamentary and presidential elections at the end of July […]
September 24 – Peace in the Horn of Africa?
The signing of the Peace and Friendship Agreement on 9 July formally put an end to the war between Ethiopia and Eritrea that has gripped the countries for the past twenty years. The five-point agreement has already led to opening air- and telephone communication as well as diplomatic relations. This dramatic turn of events […]
September 20 – Pakistan and its Regional Environment
The lecture will take a closer look at Pakistan’s regional and global environment and what it means for the country’s strategic, political and economic priorities. It will focus on Pakistan’s historical baggage and the evolvement of its conflictive ties with neighbouring India and Afghanistan, and also touch on ways in which these circumstances influence […]
17 September – Mellanöstern efter kriget mot Islamiska Staten
I Syrien, Irak och Afghanistan har Islamiska staten besegrats och flyktingströmmarna börjar mattas av. Vad händer med de IS-krigare som nu är tillfångatagna och hur är vardagen och framtiden för en krigshärjad befolkning – kommer regionen att nå försoning? Och vad händer med de svenskar som har anslutit sig till IS och som nu har […]
September 13 – Leadership on the Decline?
Many of our preconceived notions about American power and leadership have been challenged since Donald Trump took office. Is the U.S. abandoning its dominating position in the world? This lecture seeks to place this discussion in a larger context by examining how the United States has related to the world over time and how […]
6 september – Sverige efter Valet
Svensk politik kommer efter valet att med största sannolikhet vara turbulent. Enligt opinionsundersökningar som kommer idag kan den regeringskris som uppstod efter valet 2014 komma att upprepas eller till och med bli ännu värre. Vad kan vi förvänta oss av partierna och vilka frågor kommer de största striderna att bli kring? För att ge […]
3 september – Sverige i Världen
NATO-medlemskap? Hur ska Sverige förhålla sig till auktoritära stater som Ryssland och Kina? Sveriges roll i världen formas av vår utrikespolitik. Valet den nionde september är lika mycket ett val om vilken politik Sverige ska bedriva på hemmaplan som hur vi ska agera på den internationella arenan. UF Uppsala bjuder därför in till en […]
14 maj – Kuba: Vad händer nu?
För ett par veckor sedan tog Miguel Díaz-Canel över presidentposten på Kuba och för första gången på över 40 år kommer landets president ha ett annat efternamn än Castro. Detta tillsammans med Barack Obamas försök att lösa konflikten med USA samt EU:s intiativ till dialog om mänskliga rättigheter med den kubanska regeringen har gjort omvärlden […]
May 10 – Managing a House Divided
The Bulgarian EU presidency has declared it will prioritise the strengthening of the EU integration process in relation to the Western Balkans. Such ideas have revealed a potential split on the EU level between the “enlargment sceptic” parts of the union, and populists in Central Europe that might use it to further their own nationalist […]
9 April – Taiwan, China Relations, from the perspective of Taiwanese Ambassadors perspective
Historically, relations between Beijing and Taipei governments have been characterized by limited contact, tensions, and instability. After decades of hostile intentions and angry rhetoric, Chinese-Taiwanese relations started improving in the 1980s. Party-to-party talks between have since been resumed and semi-official negotiations through organizations representing the interests of their respective governments are being scheduled. However, there […]
7 December – Behavioural Economics
It all started in 2008 with a book, “Nudge – Improving Decisions about Health, Wealth and Happiness”, written by this year’s recipient of the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences and behavioral economist, Richard Thaler, and law professor Cass Sunstein. Since then, “nudge units” all over the world have started shaping public policy with insights […]
9 November – Social Media and Politics: Democracy in the Digital Age
Over the past decade, social media use has become nearly ubiquitous in Western society and beyond – one quarter of the global population now has a Facebook account. Traditional power dynamics are shifting, and recent events signal that these changes leave public opinion – and liberal democracy more broadly – vulnerable to manipulation through online […]