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Le soft power, ou “puissance douce”, est un concept qui désigne la capacité d’un pays à influencer les autres sans utiliser la force ou la contrainte.Traditionnellement, les États exercent leur puissance de deux façons. La première, la plus visible, est le hard power : la puissan ...  Show more

Le terme El Niño ne vient pas des scientifiques, mais des pêcheurs de la côte nord du Pérou et de l’Équateur. Dès le XIXe siècle, ils observent un phénomène régulier : à certaines périodes, l’eau de mer devient anormalement chaude près des côtes.Or, cette région est normalement d ...  Show more

The Suez Canal was once one of the busiest global shipping routes – a third of the world's shipping containers normally pass through it. Since the Houthis began to attack passing ships last year, the volume of vessels going through has declined rapidly.The canal is run by the Egy ...  Show more

A 50-mile man-made waterway connecting the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans, the creation of the Panama Canal was arguably the greatest infrastructure project the world had ever seen. But its journey from concept to completion was anything but simple, as it failed repeatedly, and pass ...  Show more

How did Britain and France almost start World War 3 in 1956? Who was Anthony Eden and why did he hate Egyptian leader Gamal Abdel Nasser? Why was the Suez Canal so vital to European oil supplies in the 1950s? Anita and William are joined by the brilliant Alex Von Tunzelmann, auth ...  Show more

On today's show, we look at two indicators of the economic disruptions of the war in Gaza and try to trace how far they will reach. We start in the Red Sea, a crucial link in the global supply chain connecting to the Suez Canal, with around 15% of the world's shipping passing thr ...  Show more