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DEL I – UPPSATSFRÅGA Välj ut ett av nedanstående ämnen. Riktlinjen är ca 800 ord, motsvarande 5-8 sidor om Du skriver 20 rader/sida, 5-8 ord/rad.

1. Redogör kortfattat för huvuddragen i Lissabonfördraget vad gäller EU:s gemensamma utrikes- och säkerhetspolitik (GUSP) och det rättsliga området (RIF). Resonera kring det irländska ”nejet” i folkomröstningen och utsikterna till att fördraget kan träda i kraft. Analysera avslutningsvis konsekvenserna för Sverige på det utrikespolitiska området och de utmaningar och möjligheter du tror att UD kan komma att ställas ställs inför när (om) fördraget träder i kraft? 2. Större katastrofer aktualiserar såväl staters som individers rättigheter och skyldigheter. Människoliv måste räddas. Hjälpinsatser är nödvändiga. Ibland väljer stater att hantera en inträffad katastrof på egen hand och i andra fall vänder stater sig till omvärlden för assistans. I vissa lägen har det internationella samfundet ingripit - med eller utan den drabbade statens samtycke. Beskriv vilka frågeställningar som aktualiseras i situationer såsom a) svältkatastrofen i Darfur, där katastrofen är ett resultat av regeringens i Khartoum agerande, respektive b) Burma (Myanmar), där lidandet förvärrades pga den burmesiska regeringens initiala vägran att ge tillträde till det internationella samfundet. 3. FN:s ramkonvention om klimatförändringar utgör grunden för den internationella klimatpolitiken. I-länderna förutsätts ta ledningen i kampen mot de skadliga klimatförändringarna. Kyotoprotokollet, som trädde i kraft år 2005, lägger fast konkreta åtaganden för att nå konventionsmålet. I-länderna ska under perioden 2008-2012 minska sina utsläpp med minst 5,2 %. Vid ett viktigt möte på Bali 2007 lades grunden för den förhandlingsprocess som ska leda till ett nytt klimatavtal som fastställer åtaganden för perioden efter år 2012 och fram till år 2020. I december 2009, och under svenskt EUordförandeskap, planeras ett toppmöte i Köpenhamn.

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Beskriv de utmaningar som världens beslutfattare står inför. Kommentera bl.a. följande: - konsekvenserna av att USA (idag) står utanför det internationella samarbetet och att de snabbast växande ekonomierna, såsom Kina och Indien, inte omfattas av Kyotoprotokollets åtaganden - givet att klimatförändringarna kommer att drabba de fattigaste länderna hårdast, hur kan u-ländernas behov av finansiering för anpassning, teknologi, kapacitetsuppbyggnad mötas. 4. Utgå från scenariot att Finland skulle fatta beslut om att ansluta sig till försvarsalliansen NATO. Vilka effekter skulle detta få för säkerhetsläget i Sveriges närområde? Analysera för- och nackdelar för ett svenskt NATO-medlemskap.

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DEL II - Kunskapsfrågor 1. Vad är kommittologi? ____________________________________________

2. Till vilka länder har EU en landgräns? ___________________________________________________________ 3. Nämn de tre länder som kommer att inneha ordförandeskapet inom EU efter Frankrike. Ange stats- respektive utrikesminister i dessa länder. a) ____________________________________________________ b) _____________________________________________________ c) ______________________________________________________

4. ”Mest-gynnad-nationsprincipen” är en viktig princip som Sverige slutit upp bakom när det gäller internationella handelsavtal. Vad innebär den? ___________________________________________________________

5. Ange i hela procent andelen av Sveriges totala export respektive importandelar per region: Region EU 27 Övriga Europa Afrika Amerika Asien och Oceanien

Export i %

Import i %

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6. a) Hur stort ( i MSEK) är det svenska utvecklingsbiståndet för budgetåret 2009? _________________________________________________________ b) Till vilken kontinent går merparten av biståndet? _________________________________________________________ c) Nämn 5 av de länder med vilka Sverige har ett långsiktigt samarbete. _________________________________________________________ _________________________________________________________ _________________________________________________________ _________________________________________________________ _________________________________________________________

7. Vid FN:s toppmöte 2005 beslöts att inrätta två nya FN-organ. a) Vad heter dessa? _________________________________________________________

b) vilka är deras verksamhetsområden? _________________________________________________________

8. Nämn 5 länder i vilka FN har fredsbevarande operationer. Ange rätt namn alternativt ange rätt akronym för respektive operation. a) b) c) d) e)

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9. Nedanstående är akronymer för olika internationella organ. Skriv ut namnet på organisationen samt ange i vilken stad respektive organisations sekretariat finns. a) UNEP____________________________________________________________ b) WFP_____________________________________________________________ c) OECD___________________________________________________ d) IMF______________________________________________________________ e) IMO_____________________________________________________________ 10. Vad heter Jämställdhetsombudsmannen? _________________________________________________________ 11. Vem är chef för Riksgälden? _________________________________________________________ 12. Vem är Sveriges Riksbankschef? _________________________________________________________

13. a) Vilka är JO:s och JK:s verksamhetsområden? _________________________________________________________ _________________________________________________________

b) Hur utses JO och JK? _________________________________________________________ _________________________________________________________ 14. Nämn ansvarigt statsråd för följande verksamhetsområden: a) Jämställdhet______________________________________________________ b) Äldrefrågor_______________________________________________________ c) Jordbruk_________________________________________________________ d) Arbetsmarknad___________________________________________________

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15. Beskriv aktuella förändringar vad avser den svenska arbetslöshetsförsäkringen (A-kassan). ___________________________________________________________ ___________________________________________________________ ___________________________________________________________

16. Vad heter USA:s Secretary of Treasury (motsv finansminister)? ___________________________________________________________ 17. Vad heter Chefen för Federal Reserve? ___________________________________________________________ 18. Hur många ledamöter har representantshuset respektive senaten? ___________________________________________________________ 19. Förklara kortfattat det amerikanska systemet med elektorskollegiet? H

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___________________________________________________________ ___________________________________________________________ 20. Barack Obama har sina rötter i vilket afrikanskt land? __________________________________________________________ 21. Vilken delstat representerar senatorn John McCain? __________________________________________________________ 22. Vad heter Pakistans nye president? ___________________________________________________________

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23. Diplomaten Francis Fukuyama skrev i slutet av 80-talet en essä som han senare (1992) utvecklade och gav ut i bokform. a) Vad hette boken? _________________________________________________________

b) Vad handlade den om? __________________________________________________________

24. I vilket land och när ägde den s.k. massakern i Sharpeville rum? ___________________________________________________________

25. Var äger nästa Världsutställning rum år 2010? ___________________________________________________________ 26. I Paralympics gick det bättre för Sverige än i vanliga OS. Sverige tog fem guld. a) vad hette guldvinnarna? __________________________________________________________ b) i vilka grenar tävlar de i? __________________________________________________________

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27. Matcha rätt nummer (regissör) med rätt bokstav (film) i svarskolumnen Regissör

Filmtitel

1. Jan Troell

A. De sju samurajerna

2. Josef Fares

B. Tzatziki

3. Roy Andersson

C. Dr Strangelove

4. Eva Lemhagen

D. Zozo

5. Martin Scorsese

E. Brokeback mountain

6. Ang Lee

F. The Aviator

7. Stanley Kubrick

G. Du levande

8. Akira Kurosawa

H. ll Capitano

Svarskolumn

28. Matcha rätt nummer (författare) med rätt bokstav (boktitel) i svarskolumnen Författare

Boktitel

1. Bodil Malmsten

A. Divisadero - Annas bok

2. Susan Faludi

B. Sista boken från Finistère

3. Michael Ondaatje 4. P O Engquist 5. Alaa al Aswany 6. Bruno K Öijer

C. Den engelska flaggan

7. Theodor Kallifatides 8. Majgull Axelsson 9. Imre Kertész

Svarskolumn

D. Yacoubians hus E. Ett annat liv F. Vänner och älskare G. Is och vatten, vatten och is H. Svart som silver I. Den amerikanska mardrömmen

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29. Ett klassisk rock-band skrev låtar som bl.a. Moby Dick och Stairway to Heaven. a) Vad heter bandet? _________________________________________________________ b) När fick de Polarpriset? _________________________________________________________ c) Vem skrev romanen Moby Dick, eller den vita valen? _________________________________________________________ 30. Ange tre muslimska respektive tre judiska högtidsdagar: a) b) c) d) e) f)

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31. Vad avses med: a) halal? _________________________________________________________ b) kosher? _________________________________________________________ 32. I vilket sammanhang stöter du på orden: a) Largo, presto______________________________________________ b) Hexagon, romb____________________________________________ c) Trias, perm_______________________________________________ d) Dong, birr________________________________________________ e) Chamsin, sefyr_____________________________________________

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33. Förklara kortfattat eller ange en synonym till: Aforism____________________________________________________ Akronym___________________________________________________ Dekret_____________________________________________________ Exekvera___________________________________________________ Inkunabel___________________________________________________ Legat______________________________________________________ Medioker___________________________________________________ Nestor_____________________________________________________ Odiös______________________________________________________ Parafras____________________________________________________ Seren______________________________________________________ Subtil______________________________________________________ Ukas_______________________________________________________ Vederhäftig_________________________________________________

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DEL III – ENGELSKA LÄS- OCH SKRIVFÖRSTÅELSE Read the article “After the Firestorm”, an editorial piece in the English newspaper The Guardian.

Before answering, please read these guidelines. - Keep your answers in question 1 as short as possible. - The summary in question 2 should not exceed the stipulated number of words. - Your score will depend on your range, accuracy and fluency in your writing. You will receive more points for using more sophisticated and adventurous writing (though possibly incorrect) language than for simplistic (though correct) writing. H

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After the firestorm – excerpts from The Guardian, HTU

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Friday September 19 2008 1.

"The business of Wall Street appears to be the cream of villainy," this paper declared in October 1929, as boom turned to bust. Such anger is necessary again today. The financial markets have been exposed as a vortex of artifice, a land of mirrors in which nothing was real and now everything is shattered. Government stands between citizens and disaster.

2. The state is meeting the immediate crisis, here and in America, by

bulldozing firebreaks in the firestorm - yesterday's move against short selling by the Financial Services Authority being one of the boldest examples to date. Threatened bodies, such as HBOS, have been nationalised or married off, while the Federal Reserve has been pumping money into the markets. But if that was the sum total of the response, progressive politicians would have missed an extraordinary opportunity to improve the world rather than simply manage it. Protection 3. The aim must be to rebalance the relationship between the City and society, not out of revenge or a disavowal of all markets, but to protect people, which is surely the basic duty of the state. There is a near unity of opinion that rules must be changed; that regulation has been weak; that the supposed masters of the universe in New York and London have been exposed as enfeebled spivs. The price of trusting too much in financial markets has been an intolerable volatility. Reform must aim to put in its place greater security. The knocking down of old barriers - on credit, on speculation, on what City firms are allowed to do - produced an artificial enrichment. Not all the consequences were bad. But finance has been indulged as other sectors of the normal economy have not been. It should not exist as a world in itself. T

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4. The purpose of finance should be to finance real activities. The addiction to

making a fast buck went beyond the City, of course - not least into Britain's housing market, where homeowners were transformed into speculators by a national cult of property. That has been encouraged by chancellors from Barber to Brown, and should now stop. But the much greater fault was to let the City rip. The impulse to hit back at the moneylenders in the temple is understandable. The truth is that there is no pain-free revenge to be had. The newly redundant money men at Lehman Brothers are already being joined by bank clerks from the Halifax, who played no part in bringing the crisis about. 5. Most money is never printed as currency, but is created by private banks.

When banks get nervous and lend less - as they are at the moment - the effect is the same as taking cash out of the economy. The disastrous contradictory spiral set in train by the collapse of the New York Bank of the United States in 1930 marked the real start of the Great Depression - a slump that saw one in four Americans out of a job. Galling as it may be to see the same bankers who were reckless in the good times benefiting 12

from the official funds today, the only alternative would be to allow the current collapse to play out in the same disastrous manner. Likewise, the continuation of the Bank of England's special liquidity scheme - which, for a price, allows banks to swap their assets for rock-solid Treasury bonds - is unavoidable. The Bank's governor, Mervyn King, was wrong to resist this. The authorities must - and in the end will - do what is required to avoid monetary contraction. Slump 6. What is much less clear, however, is whether central bankers and finance ministries have grasped the lessons of the less acute but more protracted Japanese slump that began in 1991 and, arguably, continues to this day. The trigger, then as now, was the bursting of a property bubble which had, some said, made the square mile of land underneath Tokyo's Imperial Palace more valuable than the entire state of California. Understandably concerned to avoid re-creating the speculative madness, the Bank of Japan dithered before cutting rates. By the time it acted, prices were sliding down so fast that families and firms could not be persuaded to stop hoarding cash. T

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Looking ahead, it will also be necessary to refashion the framework for policy - in both monetary and fiscal terms. Suddenly revising the Bank's 2% inflation target in the midst of today's market mayhem would signal that the government had dispensed with all discipline, and so could trigger a run on the pound. But ministers must revisit the target when calm returns, replacing it with one which would stop discretion from being hampered by world commodity prices which the Bank cannot control.

Embarrassing 8. Gordon Brown will also need to rewrite his fiscal rules, embarrassing as he will find it. Yesterday's 70% year-on-year rise in the August deficit confirms that he is already on course to break this self-imposed overdraft limit. He can only comply with it by tightening policy in a dangerous manner. His overriding duty is instead to rewrite the arbitrary rules. T

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9. Alongside cure we must have prevention, so financial hubris cannot

precipitate nemesis again. First, as the FSA has rightly recognised, it is time to tame short selling - the practice of borrowing shares and selling them on, in the hope of buying them back at a profit after they have taken a dive. By allowing investors to target failing firms, it can work to discipline failing management. But it can also drive frenzied nosedives in valuation, apropos of not very much. As of last night, and until January at least, the FSA has banned the shorting of financial stocks. This welcome move will discourage speculation in banks - speculation that events have shown is often at the expense of the taxpayer. 10. Second, in the light of the uncertainties created by the unwinding of the

vast Lehman balance sheet, a compulsory insurance scheme should be introduced to ensure that transactions entered into are honoured; at the same time anonymous trading should be banned.

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11. Third, there needs to be limits on the piling of debt on top of dodgy

derivatives - a 50% minimum margin should do the trick. And there would be wisdom in making capital requirements on banks countercyclical forcing them to put more money away in the good times, while freeing them up to lend more liberally in downturns. Achieving this would require an international deal that would be difficult to broker. But overturning a regulatory race to the bottom is a prize worth fighting for. Dogmatic delusions 12. Cultural changes are just as important as this shopping list of specifics. Criminal inquiries have already been launched in the US, and could usefully clarify ideas about financiers' responsibilities in the UK. Maintaining opacity about who will get bailed out is essential to ensuring banks cannot assume that the authorities will always pick them back up if a frenzied debt dance leads to collapse. Businesses need to be more focused on their core expertise. T

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13. Avoiding boom and bust is important, but it is not the only issue. Society

must invest in activities more productive than temporarily profitable games of financial pass-the-parcel-bomb. A shift away from snapshot market-based accountancy standards - which make the strength of balance sheets entirely dependent on shifting spirits in the marketplace - could foster a saner investment climate. 14. No menu of instant prescriptions can fix everything that has gone wrong -

not least because it is only after the current series of tidal waves has stopped and retreated that we will be able to assess the full damage. But already it is clear that what lies behind them is the dogmatic delusion that the invisible hand of the market reliably transforms private greed into public good. The crisis has exposed the reality that much less is truly private than is often assumed - from Northern Rock to Freddie Mac, the crisis has transformed private liabilities into public debt. The reality is that in a modern market economy, as in every society, the prosperity of each is interconnected with the prosperity of others. No man is an island, and - it turns out - no bank is either. From innovation to pollution, the private decisions of private firms affect the public good - whether for good or ill.

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ID NR………….. 1. What do you understand by the following expressions? Write a brief explanation of each. a) cream of villainy _________________________________________________ _________________________________________________ _________________________________________________ _________________________________________________

b) exposed as a vortex of artifice _________________________________________________ _________________________________________________ _________________________________________________ _________________________________________________

c) galling as it may be _________________________________________________ _________________________________________________

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d) The Bank of Japan dithered __________________________________________ __________________________________________ __________________________________________ __________________________________________

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ID NR ……… e) rewrite the arbitrary rules __________________________________________ __________________________________________ __________________________________________ __________________________________________

f) precipitate nemesis __________________________________________ __________________________________________ __________________________________________ __________________________________________

g) dogmatic delusion __________________________________________ __________________________________________ __________________________________________ __________________________________________

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