The magazine from the Society of International Affairs in Gothenburg
In the first installment of Utblick’s SUDAN WEEK, Sudanese PhD Student and scholar Yasir Zaidan makes the case for a subaltern security approach in the conflict between Sudan and South Sudan.
With a year since the military coup d’état in Myanmar, what has really happened? Staff writer Laura Sakhong discusses the violent repressions of pro-democracy protests and the current whereabouts of former state counsellor Aung San Suu Kyi.
Sudanese guest writer Sara Mohamed explains pivotal events in Sudan’s interior politics from the 1940’s to today, and what events preambled the current turmoil.
The new Swedish migration policy has caused turmoil in the universities and among academic circles. In our last article of the year, Laura Sakhong interviews Raghav Sharma who is affected by the new law.
Civil society as a concept has been debated and defined in different ways, and by a large number of proponents, it is considered integral of a functioning democracy. In this article, Magdalena Kamont discusses civil society in the context of the shared Soviet past of Central- and Eastern Europe.
For International Students Day, Louise Nilsson writes about the current situation for Belarusian students who have peacefully protested the government.
Five years ago a historic peace deal was signed between the Colombian government and the prolific guerilla group FARC. But what promises in the peace deal has been implemented, and has the deal’s historic equality clauses had any effect?
What is propaganda and how can it be understood? In this longer read, Enlight analyst Heghine Aleksanyan disseminates the term and the literature about it.
With Angela Merkel stepping down, the German election became a question of who could take her place. Laurin Zils explains the players in the recent election and what the future may hold for the most populous country in the EU.