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020 _a9780813145655
020 _a0813145651
020 _z9780813145648 (hardcover : alk. paper)
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_cMdBmJHUP
_dBD-SySUS.
050 0 0 _aGV706.35
_b.D57 2014
082 0 0 _a306.4/83
_223
245 0 0 _aDiplomatic games
_h[electronic resource] :
_bsport, statecraft, and international relations since 1945 /
_cedited by Heather L. Dichter and Andrew L. Johns.
260 _aLexington, Ketucky :
_bUniversity Press of Kentucky,
_c2014.
_e(Baltimore, Md. :
_fProject MUSE,
_g2015)
300 _a1 online resource (pages cm)
504 _aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505 0 _aIntroduction : 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.
588 _aDescription based on print version record.
650 0 _aInternational relations.
650 0 _aSports
_xPolitical aspects.
650 0 _aSports
_xInternational cooperation.
650 0 _aSports and state.
655 7 _aElectronic books.
_2local
700 1 _aJohns, Andrew L.,
_d1968-
_eauthor,
_eeditor of compilation.
700 1 _aDichter, Heather,
_eauthor,
_eeditor of compilation.
710 2 _aProject Muse.
830 0 _aUPCC book collections on Project MUSE.
856 4 0 _zFull text available:
_uhttps://muse.jhu.edu/books/9780813145655/
942 _2Dewey Decimal Classification
_ceBooks
999 _c30651
_d30651