Diplomatic Games - Sport, Statecraft, and International Relations Since 1945

Bringing together innovative scholarship from around the globe, this groundbreaking collection makes a compelling case for the use of sport as a lens through which to view international relations.

About the author

Heather L. Dichter is associate professor of sport management and sport history at De Montfort University and a member of DMU's International Centre for Sports History and Culture. She is the coeditor of Olympic Reform Ten Years Later.
Andrew L. Johns is associate professor of history at Brigham Young University and the David M. Kennedy Center for International Studies. His books include Vietnam's Second Front: Domestic Politics, the Republican Party, and the War and The Eisenhower Administration, the Third World, and the Globalization of the Cold War.

Summary

A compelling case for the use of sport as a lens through which to view international relations.

Product details

• Authors: Heather L. Johns Dichter
• Assisted by: Heather L Dichter (Editor), Heather L. Dichter (Editor), Andrew L Johns (Editor), Andrew L. Johns (Editor)
• Publisher: University Press of Kentucky
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.08.2020
• EAN: 9780813180281
• ISBN: 978-0-8131-8028-1
• No. of pages: 496
• Series: Studies in Conflict, Diplomacy, and Peace; Studies in Conflict, Diplomacy
• Subjects: Guides > Sport > General, dictionaries, handbooks, yearbooks, history; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education