Sport and diplomacy : games within games / edited by J. Simon Rofe.

Includes bibliographies and index.

Front matter; Contents; List of figures; List of tables; List of contributors; Acknowledgements; Introduction: establishing the field of play; Part I: Concepts and history; The governance of sport in deeply divided societies: actors and institutions in Bosnia and Herzegovina, Cyprus and Northern Ireland; Can sport contribute to the mission success of military peace support operations?; Diplomatic actors in the world of football: individuals, institutions, ideologies; Mega sports events as political tools: a case study of South Africa's hosting of the 2010 FIFA Football World Cup.

Part II: Public diplomacyContesting independence: colonial cultures of sport and diplomacy in Afghanistan, 1919-49; Friendship is solidarity: the Chinese ping-pong team visits Africa in 1962; Barnstorming Frenchmen: the impact of Paris Université Club's US tours and the individual in sports diplomacy; Football, diplomacy and Australia in the Asian century; Part III: 'No sport' as diplomacy; Boycotts and diplomacy: when the talking stops; 'Chinese rings': the United States, the two Chinas and the 1960 Squaw Valley Winter Olympics.

Decentring US sports diplomacy: the 1980 Moscow boycott through contemporary Asian-African perspectives'They used Americana, all painted and polished, to make the enormous impression they did': selling the Reagan revolution through the 1984 Olympic Games; Post-match recovery and analysis: concluding thoughts on sport and diplomacy; Index.

'This book critically enhances the appreciation of sport and diplomacy in global affairs from the perspective of both practitioners and scholars. It draws on a range of scholarship across history, politics, sociology and international relations. It explores the linkages across these fields particularly in relation to soft power and public diplomacy and is supported by a wide range of sources and methodologies. Including a contribution from esteemed FIFA scholar Professor Alan Tomlinson which addresses diplomacy within the world's global game of association football, the collection also includes studies on the rise of mega sport events as sites of diplomacy, new consideration of Chinese ping-pong diplomacy prior to the 1970s and the importance of boycotts in sport - particularly in relation to newly explored dimensions of the boycotts of the 1980 and 1984 Olympic Games. The place of non-state actors is explored throughout; whether individual or institutions they perform a crucial role as conduits of the transactions of sport and diplomacy. Based on twentieth and twenty-first century evidence, the book acknowledges the antecedents from the ancient Olympics to the contemporary era and in its conclusions offers avenues for further study based on the future sport and diplomacy relationship. The book has strong international basis covering a broad range of countries, their diplomatic relationship with sport and is written by a truly transnational cast of authors. The intense media scrutiny on the Olympic Games, FIFA World Cup and other international sports will also contribute to the global interest in this volume' --Back cover.

The purpose of this book is to critically enhance the appreciation of Diplomacy and Sport in global affairs for both practitioners and scholars. The book will make an important new contribution to at least two distinct fields of study: Diplomacy and Sport, as well as to those concerned with History, Politics, Sociology, and International Relations. The critical analysis the book provides explores the linkages across these fields, particularly in relation to Soft Power and Public Diplomacy. Its conclusions offer avenues for further study based on the future of the relationship between sport and diplomacy. The book has strong international basis: it covers a broad range of countries, their diplomatic relationship with sport and is written by a truly transnational cast of authors. The intense media scrutiny on the Olympic Games, FIFA World Cup, and other international sports will contribute to the global interest in this volume.

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