Diplomatic Games : : Sport, Statecraft, and International Relations Since 1945.

Diplomatic Games : : Sport, Statecraft, and International Relations Since 1945.

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Superior document:Studies in Conflict, Diplomacy, and Peace Series
:
Dichter, Heather L.
TeilnehmendeR:
Johns, Andrew L.
Place / Publishing House:Lexington : : University Press of Kentucky,, 2014.
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Year of Publication:2014
Edition:1st ed.
Language:English
Series:Studies in Conflict, Diplomacy, and Peace Series
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Physical Description:1 online resource (457 pages)
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Table of Contents:
  • Intro
  • Title Page
  • Copyright Page
  • Contents
  • Introduction. Competing in the Global Arena: Sport and Foreign Relations since 1945
  • Part 1. Alliance Politics
  • 1. "A Game of Political Ice Hockey": NATO Restrictions on East German Sport Travel in the Aftermath of the Berlin Wall
  • 2. Steadfast Friendship and Brotherly Help: The Distinctive Soviet-East German Sport Relationship within the Socialist Bloc
  • 3. Welcoming the "Third World": Soviet Sport Diplomacy, Developing Nations, and the Olympic Games
  • Part 2. The Decolonizing World
  • 4. Forging Africa-Caribbean Solidarity within the Commonwealth? Sport and Diplomacy during the Anti-apartheid Campaign
  • 5. Peronism, International Sport, and Diplomacy
  • 6. A More Flexible Domination: Franco-African Sport Diplomacy during Decolonization, 1945-1966
  • Part 3. East-West Rivalries
  • 7. The Cold War Games of a Colonial Latin American Nation: San Juan, Puerto Rico, 1966
  • 8. "Our Way of Life against Theirs": Ice Hockey and the Cold War
  • 9. "Fuzz Kids" and "Musclemen": The US-Soviet Basketball Rivalry, 1958-1975
  • 10. The White House Games: The Carter Administration's Efforts to Establish an Alternative to the Olympics
  • Part 4. Sport as Public Diplomacy
  • 11. Reclaiming the Slopes: Sport and Tourism in Postwar Austria
  • 12. Politics First, Competition Second: Sport and China's Foreign Diplomacy in the 1960s and 1970s
  • 13. Reds, Revolutionaries, and Racists: Surfing, Travel, and Diplomacy in the Reagan Era
  • Conclusion. Fields of Dreams and Diplomacy
  • Acknowledgments
  • Selected Bibliography
  • List of Contributors
  • Index
  • Studies in Conflict, Diplomacy, and Peace
  • Books in the Series.

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