Diplomatic games [electronic resource] : sport, statecraft, and international relations since 1945 / edited by Heather L. Dichter and Andrew L. Johns.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction : competing in the global arena : sport and foreign relations since 1945 / Andrew L. Johns -- "A game of political ice hockey" : NATO restrictions on East German sport travel in the aftermath of the Berlin Wall / Heather L. Dichter -- Steadfast friendship and brotherly help : the distinctive Soviet-East German sport relationship within the Socialist Bloc / Evelyn Mertin -- Welcoming the "third world" : Soviet sport diplomacy, developing nations, and the Olympic Games / Jenifer Parks -- Forging Africa-Caribbean solidarity within the Commonwealth? : sport and diplomacy during the antiapartheid campaign / Aviston D. Downes -- Peronism, international sport, and diplomacy / Cesar R. Torres -- A more flexible domination : Franco-African sport diplomacy during decolonization, 1945-1966 / Pascal Charitas -- The cold war games of a colonial Latin American nation : San Juan, Puerto Rico, 1966 / Antonio Sotomayor -- "Our way of life against theirs" : ice hockey and the cold war / John Soares -- "Fuzz kids" and "musclemen" : the US-Soviet basketball rivalry, 1958-1975 / Kevin B. Witherspoon -- The White House games : the Carter administration's efforts to establish an alternative to the Olympics / Nicholas Evan Sarantakes -- Reclaiming the slopes : sport and tourism in postwar Austria / Wanda Ellen Wakefield -- Politics first, competition second : sport and China's foreign diplomacy in the 1960s and 1970s / Fan Hong and Lu Zhouxiang -- Reds, revolutionaries, and racists : surfing, travel, and diplomacy in the Reagan era / Scott Laderman -- Conclusion : fields of dreams and diplomacy / Thomas W. Zeiler.

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