Sports Diplomacy - Sports in the Diplomatic Activities of States and Non-State Actors

This book investigates the issue of sports diplomacy and refers to the place and role of sport within public diplomacy. Its subject includes the use of sport to shape relations with other states, to build the state's international image and the diplomatic subjectivity of international sports organizations.

List of contents

Introduction

Chapter 1: Connotation of the Category 'Sports Diplomacy' - From a Colloquial Overview to a Conceptualisation Attempt

Chapter 2: Sports Diplomacy as an Activity for Shaping Positive Relations between States

Chapter 3: Sports Diplomacy as a Tool for Shaping the Desirable Image of States

Chapter 4: The Diplomacy of Organizations Governing International Sport

Conclusions

About the author

By Michal Marcin Kobierecki

Summary

This book investigates the issue of sports diplomacy and refers to the place and role of sport within public diplomacy. Its subject includes the use of sport to shape relations with other states, to build the state's international image and the diplomatic subjectivity of international sports organizations.

Product details

• Authors: Micha Kobierecki, Micha¿ Marcin Kobierecki, Michal Marcin Kobierecki
• Publisher: Lexington Books
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.07.2020
• EAN: 9781793602206
• ISBN: 978-1-79360-220-6
• No. of pages: 328
• Series: Lexington Research in Sports,; Lexington Research in Sports, Politics, and International Relations
• Subjects: Guides > Sport > General, dictionaries, handbooks, yearbooks, history; Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education; POLITICAL SCIENCE / International Relations / Diplomacy, POLITICAL SCIENCE / International Relations / General, Politics / Current Events, Diplomacy, Sporting events and management, Sporting events & management