Diplomatic games: sport, statecraft, and international relations since 1945

Diplomatic games: sport, statecraft, and international relations since 1945

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Statement of responsibility:ed. by Heather L. Dichter ...
Main Author: Dichter, Heather L. (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Lexington, Kentucky : Univ. Press of Kentucky, 2014
Physical Description:488 S.
Series:Studies in conflict, diplomacy, and peace
ISBN:9780813145648
FIV classifikation:
RQ (World wide) ;
SE01 (Foreign cultural policy) ;
SB01 (International relations / process)
Subjects (GND):
Sport ;
Internationale Politik ;
Diplomatie ;
Geschichte 1945-2014
FIV-Subjects:
Global ;
Sport ;
Sportveranstaltung ;
Olympische Spiele ;
Stellenwert ;
more...
FIV-Aspects:
Image-Bildung ;
Auslandsbild ;
Anti-Apartheid ;
Sanktionen ;
Tourismuspolitik ;
more...
Subjects (LCSH):
Sports and state
Sports > International cooperation
Sports > Political aspects
International relations
Genre:
Aufsatzsammlung
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Table of Contents:
  • 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.