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Sport Diplomacy

Abdi, K. et al. (2022) ‘Identifying the conceivable diplomatic outcomes of Sport Diplomacy initiatives’, INTERNATIONAL AREA STUDIES REVIEW [Preprint]. Available at: https://doi.org/10.1177/22338659221120973.

AlKhalifa, H. and Farello, A. (2021) ‘The soft power of Arab women’s football: changing perceptions and building legitimacy through social media’, INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF SPORT POLICY AND POLITICS, 13(2), pp. 241–257. Available at: https://doi.org/10.1080/19406940.2020.1854327.

Baker, R. et al. (2018) ‘U.S. sport diplomacy in Latin America and the Caribbean: A programme evaluation’, JOURNAL OF SPORT FOR DEVELOPMENT, 6(10), pp. 71–85.

Bianco, C. and Sons, S. (2023) ‘More than a Game: Football and Soft Power in the Gulf’, INTERNATIONAL SPECTATOR, 58(2), pp. 92–106. Available at: https://doi.org/10.1080/03932729.2023.2196810.

Blom, L., Magat, P. and Dichter, H. (2019) ‘Grassroots diplomacy through coach education: Americans, Jordanians and Tajiks’, SOCCER & SOCIETY [Preprint]. Available at: https://doi.org/10.1080/14660970.2019.1689125.

Blomqvist, T. and Hansson, E. (2021) ‘Exchange Punches, Not Bullets: Reconciliation through Combat Sports’, IDO MOVEMENT FOR CULTURE-JOURNAL OF MARTIAL ARTS ANTHROPOLOGY, 21(1), pp. 47–55. Available at: https://doi.org/10.14589/ido.21.1.7.

Connell, J. (2018) ‘Fiji, rugby and the geopolitics of soft power. Shaping national and international identity’, NEW ZEALAND GEOGRAPHER, 74(2), pp. 92–100. Available at: https://doi.org/10.1111/nzg.12184.

Dichter, H. (2021) ‘The Diplomatic Turn: The New Relationship between Sport and Politics’, INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF THE HISTORY OF SPORT, 38(2–3), pp. 247–263. Available at: https://doi.org/10.1080/09523367.2021.1894135.

Garamvölgyi, B., Bardocz-Bencsik, M. and Dóczi, T. (2022) ‘Mapping the role of grassroots sport in public diplomacy’, SPORT IN SOCIETY, 25(5), pp. 889–907. Available at: https://doi.org/10.1080/17430437.2020.1807955.

Garamvölgyi, B., Begovic, M. and Dóczi, T. (2021) ‘Sport Diplomacy in Hybrid Regimes: The Cases of Hungary and Montenegro’, JOURNAL OF GLOBAL SPORT MANAGEMENT [Preprint]. Available at: https://doi.org/10.1080/24704067.2021.2008804.

HOULIHAN, B. (1995) ‘PLAYING POLITICS – SOVIET SPORT DIPLOMACY TO 1992 – PEPPARD,V, RIORDAN,J’, EUROPE-ASIA STUDIES, 47(3), pp. 534–535.

Houlihan, B. and Zheng, J. (2015) ‘Small states: sport and politics at the margin’, INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF SPORT POLICY AND POLITICS, 7(3), pp. 329–344. Available at: https://doi.org/10.1080/19406940.2014.959032.

Ilevbare, S. and McPherson, G. (2022) ‘Understanding COVID-19: A Hybrid Threat and Its Impact on Sport Mega-Events. A Focus on Japan and the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games’, FRONTIERS IN SPORTS AND ACTIVE LIVING, 4. Available at: https://doi.org/10.3389/fspor.2022.720591.

Jackson, S. and Dawson, M. (2017) ‘IOC-STATE-CORPORATE NEXUS: CORPORATE DIPLOMACY AND THE OLYMPIC COUP D’ETAT’, SOUTH AFRICAN JOURNAL FOR RESEARCH IN SPORT PHYSICAL EDUCATION AND RECREATION, 39(1), pp. 101–111.

Johnson, J. and Lewis, S. (2021) ‘ITF Taekwon-Do’s General Choi Hong Hi: A Peace Profile’, IDO MOVEMENT FOR CULTURE-JOURNAL OF MARTIAL ARTS ANTHROPOLOGY, 21(4), pp. 53–63. Available at: https://doi.org/10.14589/ido.21.4.8.

Kang, Y. and Houlihan, B. (2021) ‘Sport as a diplomatic resource: the case of South Korea, 1970-2017’, INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF SPORT POLICY AND POLITICS, 13(1), pp. 45–63. Available at: https://doi.org/10.1080/19406940.2021.1877169.

Keys, B. (2017) ‘Political Protection: The International Olympic Committee’s UN Diplomacy in the 1980s’, INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF THE HISTORY OF SPORT, 34(11), pp. 1161–1178. Available at: https://doi.org/10.1080/09523367.2017.1402764.

Kuo, C. (2019) ‘The Heroine of Free China: A New Image of Diplomatic Envoys and the Female Body of the Liangyou Women’s National Basketball Team in the 1950s’, INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF THE HISTORY OF SPORT, 36(4–5), pp. 375–387. Available at: https://doi.org/10.1080/09523367.2019.1622524.

Kuo, C. and Kuo, H. (2020) ‘Sport Diplomacy and Survival: Republic of China Table Tennis Coaches in Latin America during the Cold War’, INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF THE HISTORY OF SPORT, 37(14), pp. 1479–1499. Available at: https://doi.org/10.1080/09523367.2020.1860943.

Lee, J. (2021) ‘Olympic Ceremony and Diplomacy: South Korean, North Korean, and British Media Coverage of the 2018 Olympic Winter Games’ Opening and Closing Ceremonies’, COMMUNICATION & SPORT, 9(5), pp. 761–784. Available at: https://doi.org/10.1177/2167479519886544.

LESLIE, R. (1996) ‘PLAYING POLITICS – SOVIET SPORT DIPLOMACY TO 1992 – PEPPARD,V, RIORDAN,J’, SLAVONIC AND EAST EUROPEAN REVIEW, 74(2), pp. 372–373.

Li, Y. (2016) ‘Two Tales of China’s Sport Diplomacy: Post-Handover Hong Kong and Macau Special Administrative Regions Compared’, INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF THE HISTORY OF SPORT, 33(11), pp. 1284–1302. Available at: https://doi.org/10.1080/09523367.2016.1267148.

Loudcher, J. et al. (2023) ‘Did the 1904 Entente Cordiale Originate in Bordeaux Thanks to Sports in 1895? Reflections on Sport Diplomacy’, INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF THE HISTORY OF SPORT, 40(2–3), pp. 125–141. Available at: https://doi.org/10.1080/09523367.2023.2177273.

Merkel, U. (2008) ‘THE POLITICS OF SPORT DIPLOMACY AND REUNIFICATION IN DIVIDED KOREA One Nation, Two Countries and Three Flags’, INTERNATIONAL REVIEW FOR THE SOCIOLOGY OF SPORT, 43(3), pp. 289–311. Available at: https://doi.org/10.1177/1012690208098254.

Merkel, U. (2009) ‘Sport, Politics and Reunification – A Comparative Analysis of Korea and Germany’, INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF THE HISTORY OF SPORT, 26(3), pp. 406–428. Available at: https://doi.org/10.1080/09523360802602273.

Min, D. and Choi, Y. (2019) ‘Sport cooperation in divided Korea: an overstated role of sport diplomacy in South Korea’, SPORT IN SOCIETY, 22(8), pp. 1382–1395. Available at: https://doi.org/10.1080/17430437.2018.1536120.

Mousset, K., Violette, L. and Epron, A. (2023) ‘The failure to co-host the Seoul 1988 Summer Olympics: a diplomacy “of small steps” influenced by international opinion (1985-88)’, INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF SPORT POLICY AND POLITICS, 15(3), pp. 387–399. Available at: https://doi.org/10.1080/19406940.2023.2239821.

Na, D. and Dallaire, C. (2022) ‘The diplomatic roles of Korean state-run sport for development programs’, INTERNATIONAL REVIEW FOR THE SOCIOLOGY OF SPORT, 57(8), pp. 1177–1196. Available at: https://doi.org/10.1177/10126902211065337.

Nassiri, R. et al. (2022) ‘Strategies for the development of international sport diplomacy in the volleyball federation of the Islamic Republic of Iran’, SPORT TK-REVISTA EUROAMERICANA DE CIENCIAS DEL DEPORTE, 11.

Notaker, H., Scott-Smith, G. and Snyder, D. (2016) ‘Sport Diplomacy Forum Introduction’, DIPLOMATIC HISTORY, 40(5), pp. 807–809. Available at: https://doi.org/10.1093/dh/dhw034.

Onyestyák, N. (2010) ‘Boycott, Exclusion or Non-participation? Hungary in the Years of the 1920 and 1984 Olympic Games’, INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF THE HISTORY OF SPORT, 27(11), pp. 1920–1941. Available at: https://doi.org/10.1080/09523367.2010.491620.

Pamment, J. (2016) ‘Rethinking Diplomatic and Development Outcomes through Sport: Toward a Participatory Paradigm of Multi-Stakeholder Diplomacy’, DIPLOMACY & STATECRAFT, 27(2), pp. 231–250. Available at: https://doi.org/10.1080/09592296.2016.1169787.

Parrish, R. (2022) ‘EU Sport Diplomacy: An Idea Whose Time Has Nearly Come’, JCMS-JOURNAL OF COMMON MARKET STUDIES, 60(5), pp. 1511–1528. Available at: https://doi.org/10.1111/jcms.13317.

Postlethwaite, V. and Grix, J. (2016) ‘Beyond the Acronyms: Sport Diplomacy and the Classification of the International Olympic Committee’, DIPLOMACY & STATECRAFT, 27(2), pp. 295–313. Available at: https://doi.org/10.1080/09592296.2016.1169796.

Postlethwaite, V., Jenkin, C. and Sherry, E. (2023) ‘Sport diplomacy: an integrative review’, SPORT MANAGEMENT REVIEW, 26(3), pp. 361–382. Available at: https://doi.org/10.1080/14413523.2022.2071054.

Richelieu, A. (2018) ‘A sport-oriented place branding strategy for cities, regions and countries’, SPORT BUSINESS AND MANAGEMENT-AN INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL, 8(4), pp. 354–374. Available at: https://doi.org/10.1108/SBM-02-2018-0010.

Richelieu, A., Lin, Y. and Leng, H. (2021) ‘A Typology of Countries Using Place Branding Through Sport’, JOURNAL OF GLOBAL SPORT MANAGEMENT [Preprint]. Available at: https://doi.org/10.1080/24704067.2021.1972431.

Rofe, J. (2021) ‘Sport Diplomacy and Sport for Development SfD: A Discourse of Challenges and Opportunity’, JOURNAL OF GLOBAL SPORT MANAGEMENT [Preprint]. Available at: https://doi.org/10.1080/24704067.2021.2010024.

Rowe, D. (2019) ‘The Worlds That Are Watching: Media, Politics, Diplomacy, and the 2018 PyeongChang Winter Olympics’, COMMUNICATION & SPORT, 7(1), pp. 3–22. Available at: https://doi.org/10.1177/2167479518804483.

Rowe, D. and Silva, K. (2023) ‘Women’s sport and media: a call to critical arms’, FEMINIST MEDIA STUDIES, 23(2), pp. 729–733. Available at: https://doi.org/10.1080/14680777.2023.2201663.

dos Santos, N. (2021) ‘The Interplay of Soft Power and Sharp Power in Sport Diplomacy: A Conceptual Framework’, JOURNAL OF GLOBAL SPORT MANAGEMENT [Preprint]. Available at: https://doi.org/10.1080/24704067.2021.1952092.

Sbetti, N. (2017) ‘Like a Bridge Over Troubled Adriatic Water: The Complex Relationship between Italian and Yugoslavian Sporting Diplomacy (1945-1954)’, INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF THE HISTORY OF SPORT, 34(9), pp. 800–814. Available at: https://doi.org/10.1080/09523367.2017.1393414.

SENN, A. (1995) ‘PLAYING POLITICS – SOVIET SPORT DIPLOMACY TO 1992 – PEPPARD,V, RIORDAN,J’, SLAVIC REVIEW, 54(3), pp. 833–834. Available at: https://doi.org/10.2307/2501839.

Stewart-Withers, R., Hapeta, J. and Greener, B. (2021) ‘“The Game” that stopped two nations: Development and diplomacy in the case of the 2015 New Zealand All Black’s and Manu Samoa rugby test match in Samoa’, ASIA PACIFIC VIEWPOINT, 62(3), pp. 295–312. Available at: https://doi.org/10.1111/apv.12304.

Vonnard, P. and Marston, K. (2020) ‘Playing Across the “Halfway Line” on the Fields of International Relations: The Journey from Globalising Sport to Sport Diplomacy’, CONTEMPORARY EUROPEAN HISTORY, 29(2), pp. 220–231. Available at: https://doi.org/10.1017/S0960777319000407.

Wainwright, D. (2021) ‘Athletics, Exhibitions and Exchanges: American Sport Diplomacy in Iran, 1955-1959’, INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF THE HISTORY OF SPORT, 38(8), pp. 811–828. Available at: https://doi.org/10.1080/09523367.2021.1941898.

Won, D. and Chiu, W. (2020) ‘Politics, place and nation: comparing the hosting of sport events in Korea and Taiwan’, SPORT IN SOCIETY, 23(1), pp. 142–158. Available at: https://doi.org/10.1080/17430437.2018.1555911.

Xiao, L. and Destech Publicat Inc (2015) ‘Sports and International Relations-How Sports Influence National Benefits and Play a Part in Contemporary International Relations? A Case Study in China’s Sports Diplomacy’, in. 2015 INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON SOCIOLOGY AND PSYCHOLOGY (ICSP 2015), pp. 180–184.

Yen, C. (2013) ‘Sport, Diplomacy, and the Role of an Athlete as Ambassador: Liang-Huan Lu and Golf in Taiwan’, INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF THE HISTORY OF SPORT, 30(9), pp. 1008–1021. Available at: https://doi.org/10.1080/09523367.2013.792808.