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Mapping the World
Season 33 · Episode 5
Soft Power - Universities at War
0.0February 19, 2022
Places of learning, universities also have another role: to affirm the status of their countries and guarantee their cultural influence. Since the advent of global league tables, the struggle between universities vying for prestige has only intensified; especially between East and West.
Episodes
- Episode 1Rhine and Danube: Two Rivers, Two Europes
- Episode 2USA vs China
- Episode 3Soccer - playing field of power?
- Episode 4Argentina: Country of Missed Opportunities
- Episode 5Soft Power - Universities at War
- Episode 6Putin and Ukraine: What Next?
- Episode 7The Weaponisation of Wheat
- Episode 8France: Still a Major Power?
- Episode 9Libya: A Global Power Struggle
- Episode 10Indonesia: An Archipelago With Potential
- Episode 11South Africa, the traces of the past
- Episode 12Fish: The globalized fishery
- Episode 13Democracies under pressure worldwide
- Episode 14Pacific Ocean - At the center of interests
- Episode 15Ukraine: The nuclear threat - A turning point?
- Episode 16Natural gas and oil: Do raw materials rule the world?
- Episode 17Central Asia, Meeting Point of Cultures
- Episode 18Chile: Hope for Change
- Episode 19The Balkans between West and East
- Episode 20China: The Sea, the Power and the (In)Law
- Episode 21Israel: Hopeless Conflict, New Alliances
- Episode 22Putin, the nostalgia of the empire
- Episode 23United Kingdom: the first effects of Brexit
- Episode 24Nuclear energy: obsolete or promising for the future
- Episode 25Special China
- Episode 26Iceland: Land of Fire and Ice
- Episode 27LGBT+ Rights in the World
- Episode 28Ecology: countries "greener" than others ?
- Episode 29Qatar, World Cup Host
- Episode 30Egypt: The Pharaoh Syndrome