Sports Diplomacy

This book offers an accessible overview of the role sport plays in international relations and diplomacy.

Stuart Murray is an Associate Professor at Bond University, Australia. He is also a Fellow of the Academy of Sport at Edinburgh University, UK and Associate Editor of the journal Diplomacy & Foreign Policy.

Introduction PART 1: Sport, Diplomacy and Traditional Sports Diplomacy 1. A Revised Anthropology of Diplomacy 2. The Essence of Sport 3. Traditional Sports Diplomacy PART 2: Sports Diplomacy in the Plural, Twenty-First Century 4. 'New' Sports Diplomacy 5. Public and Networked Sports Diplomacy: Theories and Limitations PART 3: Non-state Sporting Actors and Diplomacy 6. The Diplomacy of Non-State Sporting Actors: Representation 7. Non-state Sporting Actors: Communication 8. Non-state Sporting Actors: Negotiation, Intelligence Gathering and Dissemination, and the Minimisation of Friction. PART 4: The Dark Side of International Sport 9. Sports Anti-Diplomacy in the State Context 10. Sports Anti-Diplomacy: Brats, Neo-Emperors, Hooligans and Terrorists Extra-time: Ttraditional Versus New Sports Diplomacy