The Politics of the Olympics

Essays in this collection focus on numerous political aspects of the Olympics from a variety of different perspectives, with a glossary that contains a range of politically relevant entries relating to famous and infamous Olympic athletes, Olympic movement personnel and events and broader political issues and developments which have affected the modern Games.

Alan Bairner, Gyozo Molnar

Map Summer and Winter Olympic Games Host Venues. Essays The Politics of the Olympics: An Introduction Alan Bairner and Gyozo Molnar Olympic Power, Olympic Politics: Behind the Scenes Helen Jefferson Lenskyj The Politics of Hosting the Olympic Games John Horne Politics of Gender Through the Olympics: The Changing Nature of Women's Involvement in the Olympics Susan J. Brandy The Politics of Performance Enhancement in the Olympic Games Rob Beamish Disability, Olympism and Paralympism P. David Howe The Olympics and Terrorism David L. Andrews, Jaime Schultz and Michael L. Silk Berlin 1936 Christopher Young The Olympics and the Cold War: An Eastern European Perspective Miklós Hadas The Olympics in the Post-Soviet Era: The Case of the Two Koreas Jung Woo Lee Taiwanese Identities and the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games Ping-Chao Lee, Alan Bairner and Tien-Chin Tan A-Z Glossary Alan Bairner and Gyozo Molnar