Routledge Handbook of Sports Diplomacy.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Rofe, J. Simon.

Series:

Routledge International Handbooks Series

Language:

English

Physical Description:

1 online resource (412 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Oxford : Taylor & Francis Group, 2026.

Summary:

This is the first book to explore the full breadth and depth of the emerging discipline of sports diplomacy. 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 and sport governance.

Contents:

Cover

Half Title

Title Page

Copyright Page

Table of contents

Acknowledgements

About the Editors

List of Contributors

Introduction

Part I Discourses in Sports Diplomacy

Chapter 1 Governance and Sports Diplomacy

Chapter 2 Environmental Sports Diplomacy

Chapter 3 Cultural Relations and Sports Diplomacy: A Relational View

Chapter 4 Grassroots Sports Diplomacy: The Name of the Game

Chapter 5 The International Paralympic Committee and Sports Diplomacy

Chapter 6 Human Rights and Sports Diplomacy

Chapter 7 Gender and Sports Diplomacy

Chapter 8 Olympism and War: IOC Governance Put to the Test by the War in Ukraine

Part II Sports Diplomacy in Practice

Chapter 9 The Symbiotic Relationship between History, Diplomacy and the Olympics

Chapter 10 The IOC Sports Diplomacy, Actor and Arbiter: Navigating between Values and Practice

Chapter 11 The Olympics in a Post-COVID-19 World: Uneasy Crossings between the Utopian Visions of the IOC and the Harsh Reality of Geopolitics

Chapter 12 Paris 2024 and French Sports Diplomacy

Chapter 13 International and National Sport Policy and Policy Processes: Exploring Potential Links with Diplomacy

Chapter 14 Military Sports as Diplomacy

Chapter 15 Sports Diplomacy and the Media

Chapter 16 Partnerships in Action: Local to Global and Global to Local

Chapter 17 Sports Diplomacy and the European Union

Chapter 18 Sports Diplomacy with the Watering Can: Civil Society and the European Union's ERASMUS+ Sport Programme

Chapter 19 Towards an EU Sports Diplomacy: Between Conceptual Emergence, Complex Implementation and Missed Opportunities

Part III Global Perspectives on Sports Diplomacy

Chapter 20 Rugger Diplomacy: Britain, Romania and Rugby in the Cold War.

Chapter 21 Nation Branding and Jersey Diplomacy: Exploring Country Image of Participating National Teams at the Qatar 2022 FIFA World Cup through Official Outfits

Chapter 22 Commonwealth Games - Losing Glory: The Fallacy of Sports Diplomacy?

Chapter 23 Sports Diplomacy in America: Patriotism, Power and Political Divides

Chapter 24 International Sports Ambassadors: Mapping the Ecology of Sports Diplomacy Actors in Cases of Russia and Iceland

Chapter 25 Sports Diplomacy in Poland and Eastern Europe

Chapter 26 Cricket Diplomacy

Chapter 27 United States Sports Diplomacy in Africa and the Emergence of Basketball Player Migration to the United States: A Historical Analysis

Chapter 28 The Dual Role of WWE, Professional Wrestling, and 'Sports Entertainment' in Sportswashing and Sports Diplomacy

Chapter 29 Higher, Faster, Stronger: The Maccabiah Games

Chapter 30 Sports and Diplomacy in Africa

Chapter 31 Sports and Identity Politics in the Western Balkans

Chapter 32 International Sport-as-Diplomacy: From Bosman to Superleague, How Sport Has Confronted the 'Brussels Effect'

Conclusion

Index.

Notes:

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Other Format:

Print version: Rofe, J. Simon Routledge Handbook of Sports Diplomacy

ISBN:

9781040517994

9781032696829

OCLC:

1569105923

Publisher Number:

CIPO000398884