Full Description
This is the first book to explore the full breadth and depth of the emerging discipline of sports diplomacy.
Rooted in a definition of 'diplomacy' that focuses on negotiation, representation and communication, this book examines the increasingly important role that sport plays in the diplomatic practices of international relations, and the part played by an increasing range of key actors involved including states, athletes, international organisations, NGOs and governing bodies of sport at national, regional and international levels. This book introduces the key concepts and theoretical frameworks that shape our understanding of sports diplomacy, and also reflects a range of research methodologies in sports diplomacy befitting the wide-ranging experiences of the contributing authors. Acknowledging that sports diplomacy is a practitioner-informed discipline, it traces the history of sports diplomacy and explores the key themes that define contemporary sports diplomacy, from great power and small state diplomacy to athlete perspectives, human rights, mega-events and cultural diplomacy. This book further presents a series of detailed case studies that illuminate our understanding of sports diplomacy in action, including chapters focusing upon the 2022 Men's FIFA World Cup in Qatar and the 2024 Olympic Games in Paris.
This is an essential reference for any advanced student, researcher, policy-maker or practitioner with an interest in the politics of sport, the history of sport, sports governance, international relations, geopolitics, international organisations or public policy.
Contents
Part I
Discourses in Sports Diplomacy
1 Governance and Sports Diplomacy
Carmen Pérez-González
2 Environmental Sports Diplomacy
Brian P. McCullough and Olivia Bramley
3 Cultural Relations and Sports Diplomacy: A Relational View
Imanol Galdos Irazabal and Dennis Sorondo Salazar
4 Grassroots Sports Diplomacy: The Name of the Game
Rachel Payne and Mogens Kirkeby
5 The International Paralympic Committee and Sports Diplomacy
Ian Brittain and Amiko Nobori
6 Human Rights and Sports Diplomacy
Pompiliu-Nicolae Constantin
7 Gender and Sports Diplomacy
Brooke Wilkinson and Claire Jenkin
8 Olympism and War: IOC Governance Put to the Test by the War in Ukraine
Tanguy de Wilde d'Estmael and Thierry Zintz
Part II
Sports Diplomacy in Practice
9 The Symbiotic Relationship between History, Diplomacy and the Olympics
Verity Postlethwaite and Dikaia Chatziefstathiou
10 The IOC Sports Diplomacy, Actor and Arbiter: Navigating between Values and Practice
Mahfoud Amara and Youcef Bouandel
11 The Olympics in a Post-COVID-19 World: Uneasy Crossings between the Utopian Visions of the IOC and the Harsh Reality of Geopolitics
Jung Woo Lee
12 Paris 2024 and French Sports Diplomacy
Lindsay Sarah Krasnoff
13 International and National Sport Policy and Policy Processes: Exploring Potential Links with Diplomacy 135
Iain Lindsey
14 Military Sports as Diplomacy
Daniel Bolin
15 Sports Diplomacy and the Media
David Rowe
16 Partnerships in Action: Local to Global and Global to Local
Sarah J. Hillyer, Carolyn R. Spellings and Lindsay Sarah Krasnoff
17 Sports Diplomacy and the European Union
J. Simon Rofe and Vanja Smokvina
18 Sports Diplomacy with the Watering Can: Civil Society and the
European Union's ERASMUS+ Sport Programme
Albrecht Sonntag
19 Towards an EU Sports Diplomacy: Between Conceptual Emergence,
Complex Implementation and Missed Opportunities
Carole Gomez
Part III
Global Perspectives on Sports Diplomacy
20 Rugger Diplomacy: Britain, Romania and Rugby in the Cold War
Tony Collins
21 Nation Branding and Jersey Diplomacy: Exploring Country Image of Participating National Teams at the Qatar 2022 FIFA World Cup through Official Outfits
Yoav Dubinsky
22 Commonwealth Games - Losing Glory: The Fallacy of Sports Diplomacy?
Haresh Deol
23 Sports Diplomacy in America: Patriotism, Power and Political Divides
Ashleigh M. Huffman
24 International Sports Ambassadors: Mapping the Ecology of Sports Diplomacy Actors in Cases of Russia and Iceland
Vitaly Kazakov and Rósa Magnúsdóttir
25 Sports Diplomacy in Poland and Eastern Europe
Michał Marcin Kobierecki and Anna Kobierecka
26 Cricket Diplomacy
Souvik Naha
27 United States Sports Diplomacy in Africa and the Emergence of Basketball Player Migration to the United States: A Historical Analysis
Gerard Akindes and Matthew Kirwin
28 The Dual Role of WWE, Professional Wrestling, and 'Sports Entertainment' in Sportswashing and Sports Diplomacy
Steven Daniels
29 Higher, Faster, Stronger: The Maccabiah Games
Sophia Solomon, Sharon Pardo and Hila Zahavi
30 Sports and Diplomacy in Africa
Pascal Mamudou Camara and Claire Nicolas
31 Sports and Identity Politics in the Western Balkans
Marko Begović and Silvija Mitevska
32 International Sport-as-Diplomacy: From Bosman to Superleague, How Sport Has Confronted the 'Brussels Effect'
Richard Parrish and Vanja Smokvina
Conclusion
J. Simon Rofe
