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Title Sport and foreign policy in a globalizing world / edited by Steven J. Jackson, Steven Haigh
Published London : Routledge, 2009

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Description xiv, 161 pages ; 26 cm
Series Sport in the global society
Sport in the global society.
Contents 1. Introduction: Between and Beyond Politics: Sport and Foreign Policy in a Globalizing World -- 2. Sport serving development and peace: Achieving the goals of the United Nations through sport -- 3. A new social movement: Sport for development and peace -- 4. Sport and Human Rights -- 5. The Voice of Sport: Expressing a foreign policy through a silent cultural activity: The case of sport in the French foreign policy after the Second World War -- 6. Football diplomacy, postcolonialism and Japan's quest for normal state status -- 7. Terrorism, sport and public policy in the risk society -- 8. 'Real Politic' or 'Ethically Based' sport: sport, globalization, migration and nation-state policies -- 9. Playing foreign policy games: States, drugs and other Olympian vices -- 10. Dreaming big: The pursuit of 'second order' games as a strategic response to globalization -- 11. Scripting the nation: Sport, mega-events, foreign policy and state-building in a post-apartheid South Africa -- 12. Sport as opiate of international relations: The myth and illusion of sport as tool of foreign diplomacy
Notes Formerly CIP. Uk
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Subject Sports and state.
Globalization.
International relations.
Sports -- Social aspects.
Sports -- Economic aspects.
Author Jackson, Steven J., 1958-
Haigh, Steven
LC no. 2010362694
ISBN 9780415447430 hardback
0415447437 hardback