Diplomatic Games : Sport, Statecraft, and International Relations since 1945 /

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"In Diplomatic Games, a team of international scholars examines how the nexus of sport and foreign relations has driven political and cultural change since 1945, demonstrating that governments have used athletic competition to maintain and strengthen alliances, promote politics, and increase na...

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Autores principales: Johns, Andrew L., 1968- (Autor, Editor ), Dichter, Heather (Autor, Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Lexington, Ketucky : University Press of Kentucky, [2014]
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Sports > Political aspects.
Sports > International cooperation.
Sports and state.
International relations.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > International Relations > Diplomacy.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Popular Culture.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Anthropology > Cultural.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Public Policy > Cultural Policy.
international relations.
Sports > Cooperation internationale.
Sports > Aspect politique.
Relations internationales.
Sports > Politique gouvernementale.
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction : competing in the global arena : sport and foreign relations since 1945 / Andrew L. Johns
  • "A game of political ice hockey" : NATO restrictions on East German sport travel in the aftermath of the Berlin Wall / Heather L. Dichter
  • Steadfast friendship and brotherly help : the distinctive Soviet-East German sport relationship within the Socialist Bloc / Evelyn Mertin
  • Welcoming the "third world" : Soviet sport diplomacy, developing nations, and the Olympic Games / Jenifer Parks
  • Forging Africa-Caribbean solidarity within the Commonwealth? : sport and diplomacy during the antiapartheid campaign / Aviston D. Downes
  • Peronism, international sport, and diplomacy / Cesar R. Torres
  • A more flexible domination : Franco-African sport diplomacy during decolonization, 1945-1966 / Pascal Charitas
  • The cold war games of a colonial Latin American nation : San Juan, Puerto Rico, 1966 / Antonio Sotomayor
  • "Our way of life against theirs" : ice hockey and the cold war / John Soares
  • "Fuzz kids" and "musclemen" : the US-Soviet basketball rivalry, 1958-1975 / Kevin B. Witherspoon
  • The White House games : the Carter administration's efforts to establish an alternative to the Olympics / Nicholas Evan Sarantakes
  • Reclaiming the slopes : sport and tourism in postwar Austria / Wanda Ellen Wakefield
  • Politics first, competition second : sport and China's foreign diplomacy in the 1960s and 1970s / Fan Hong and Lu Zhouxiang
  • Reds, revolutionaries, and racists : surfing, travel, and diplomacy in the Reagan era / Scott Laderman
  • Conclusion : fields of dreams and diplomacy / Thomas W. Zeiler.

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