Routledge Handbook of Sports Diplomacy

J. Simon Rofe is a world leading expert in Sports Diplomacy, and Professor of Sports Diplomacy and Management in the Carnegie School of Sport at Leeds Beckett University, UK, a Senior Research Fellow at the Institute of Sports Humanities, UK, and the Independent Expert Advisor to the UK Government’s Sports Diplomacy Working Group.Lindsay Sarah Krasnoff is a Clinical Assistant Professor at New York University’s Tisch Institute for Global Sport, USA, where she teaches sports diplomacy.Thierry Zintz is an Emeritus Professor of Sports Organisations Management in the Faculty of Sports Sciences at the Université Catholique de Louvain, Belgium. He was the Dean of the Faculty between 2010 and 2016.Richard Parrish is a Professor of Sports Law in the School of Law and Criminal Justice at Edge Hill University, UK, where he is also the Director of the University’s Centre for Sports Law Research.Haresh Deol is a multi-award-winning journalist. He has been in the media industry since 2000 and is the Co-founder and Editor of the Kuala Lumpur-based news organisationTwentytwo13.

• Part IDiscourses in Sports Diplomacy 1 Governance and Sports Diplomacy Carmen Pérez-González2 Environmental Sports Diplomacy Brian P. McCullough and Olivia Bramley3 Cultural Relations and Sports Diplomacy: A Relational View Imanol Galdos Irazabal and Dennis Sorondo Salazar4 Grassroots Sports Diplomacy: The Name of the Game Rachel Payne and Mogens Kirkeby5 The International Paralympic Committee and Sports Diplomacy Ian Brittain and Amiko Nobori6 Human Rights and Sports Diplomacy Pompiliu-Nicolae Constantin7 Gender and Sports Diplomacy Brooke Wilkinson and Claire Jenkin8 Olympism and War: IOC Governance Put to the Test by the War in Ukraine Tanguy de Wilde d’Estmael and Thierry ZintzPart IISports Diplomacy in Practice 9 The Symbiotic Relationship between History, Diplomacy and the Olympics Verity Postlethwaite and Dikaia Chatziefstathiou10 The IOC Sports Diplomacy, Actor and Arbiter: Navigating between Values and Practice Mahfoud Amara and Youcef Bouandel11 The Olympics in a Post-COVID-19 World: Uneasy Crossings between the Utopian Visions of the IOC and the Harsh Reality of Geopolitics Jung Woo Lee12 Paris 2024 and French Sports Diplomacy Lindsay Sarah Krasnoff13 International and National Sport Policy and Policy Processes: Exploring Potential Links with Diplomacy 135Iain Lindsey14 Military Sports as Diplomacy Daniel Bolin15 Sports Diplomacy and the MediaDavid Rowe16 Partnerships in Action: Local to Global and Global to Local Sarah J. Hillyer, Carolyn R. Spellings and Lindsay Sarah Krasnoff17 Sports Diplomacy and the European Union J. Simon Rofe and Vanja Smokvina18 Sports Diplomacy with the Watering Can: Civil Society and theEuropean Union’s ERASMUS+ Sport Programme Albrecht Sonntag19 Towards an EU Sports Diplomacy: Between Conceptual Emergence,Complex Implementation and Missed Opportunities Carole GomezPart IIIGlobal Perspectives on Sports Diplomacy 20 Rugger Diplomacy: Britain, Romania and Rugby in the Cold War Tony Collins21 Nation Branding and Jersey Diplomacy: Exploring Country Image of Participating National Teams at the Qatar 2022 FIFA World Cup through Official Outfits Yoav Dubinsky22 Commonwealth Games – Losing Glory: The Fallacy of Sports Diplomacy? Haresh Deol23 Sports Diplomacy in America: Patriotism, Power and Political Divides Ashleigh M. Huffman24 International Sports Ambassadors: Mapping the Ecology of Sports Diplomacy Actors in Cases of Russia and Iceland Vitaly Kazakov and Rósa Magnúsdóttir25 Sports Diplomacy in Poland and Eastern EuropeMichał Marcin Kobierecki and Anna Kobierecka26 Cricket DiplomacySouvik Naha27 United States Sports Diplomacy in Africa and the Emergence of Basketball Player Migration to the United States: A Historical Analysis Gerard Akindes and Matthew Kirwin28 The Dual Role of WWE, Professional Wrestling, and ‘Sports Entertainment’ in Sportswashing and Sports DiplomacySteven Daniels29 Higher, Faster, Stronger: The Maccabiah GamesSophia Solomon, Sharon Pardo and Hila Zahavi30 Sports and Diplomacy in AfricaPascal Mamudou Camara and Claire Nicolas31 Sports and Identity Politics in the Western Balkans Marko Begović and Silvija Mitevska32 International Sport-as-Diplomacy: From Bosman to Superleague, How Sport Has Confronted the ‘Brussels Effect’Richard Parrish and Vanja SmokvinaConclusionJ. Simon Rofe