Beyond Boycotts

Sport during the Cold War in Europe

Philippe Vonnard, Nicola Sbetti, Grégory Quin

• Publisher: De Gruyter
• Year: 2017
• Print ISBN: 9783110684292
• eBook ISBN: 9783110526738
• Edition: 1
• Topic: History
• Subtopic: Eastern European History
• Index: History

Sport during Cold War has recently begun to be studied in more depth. Some scholars have edited a book about the US and Soviet sport diplomacy and show ow the government of these two countries have used sport during this period, notably as a tool of "soft power" during the Olympic games.

Our goal is to continue in this direction and to focus more on the sport field as a place of exchanges during the Cold War. Regarding this point, our aim is to show that there were events "beyond boycotts"many and that unknown connections existed inside sport. Morevoer, many actors were involved in these exchanges. Thus, it is important not only to focus on the action of States, but also on private actors (international sporting bodies and journalists), considering that they acted around sport (an "apolitic" field) as it was tool to maintain links between the two blocs.

Our project offers a good opportunity for young scholars to present original research based on new materials (notably the use of institutional or personals archives). Morevoer, it is also a step forward with a view to conduct research within a global history paradigm, one that is still underused in sport academic fields.

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• Alonso, Vega Camilo 1
• Astavin, Sergei 1
• Åstrand, Per-Olof 1, 2, 3
• Baden-Powell, Robert 1
• Bangstad, Ole J. 1, 2
• Barassi, Ottorino 1
• Bauwens, Joseph (Peco) 1
• Bazennerye, René 1
• Bengtson, Bo 1, 2
• Ben-Gurion, David 1, 2
• Bevilacqua, Antonio 1
• Bombassei De Vettor, Giorgio 1
• Briandt, Calle 1, 2, 3, 4
• Blanco, Carrero 1
• Boggs, Grace L. 1
• Botvinnik, Mikhail 1, 2
• Brady, Leslie S. 1, 2
• Brenden, Hallgeir 1
• Brezhnev, Leonid 1
• Brundage, Avery 1
• Brunt, Lo 1, 2, 3
• Bulganin, Nikolaï A. 1
• Carlson, Lief 1, 2
• Castiella, Fernando María 1
• Castro, Fidel 1
• Cifuentes, Sergio 1
• Cochet, Henri 1
• Comăneci, Nadia 1
• Cottur, Giordano 1
• Crahay, José 1, 2, 3
• Creel, George E. 1
• De Gasperi, Alcide 1
• Denker, Arnold 1
• Delaunay, Henry 1, 2
• Delaunay, Pierre 1, 2
• Donskoi, Dmitrij D. 1, 2
• Dunayevskaya, Raya 1
• Edström, Sonja 1
• Ekblom, Björn 1
• Elola-Olaso, José Antonio 1
• Euwe, Max 1
• Ewald, Manfred 1, 2, 3
• Fischer, Robert J. (Bobby) 1, 2
• Franco, Francisco (General) 1, 2
• Gafner, Raymond 1
• Garrigues, Emilio 1
• Gerö, Joseph 1
• Gieseler, Karl-Heinz 1, 2, 3, 4
• Gligoric, Svetozar 1
• Gmelin, Hans 1
• Graham, George 1
• Gross, Hans Hansovič 1, 2
• Haffner, Steffen 1, 2
• Hartwig, H.C. (Colonel) 1, 2, 3
• Jernberg Sixten 1
• Kaganovič, Lazare M. 1
• Kai-shek Chiang 1
• Kamath, M. V. 1
• Kamenskij, V.I. 1
• Karpov, Anatoly 1
• Kennan, George F. 1
• Kharlamov, N. I. 1
• Kincheloe, Jerry 1, 2
• Kissinger, Henry 1
• König, Walfried 1, 2
• Krivcov, M. M. 1
• Khrushchev, Nikita S. 1, 2
• Kubala, László 1
• Kulinkovic, Konstantin 1
• Kuma, Bennard 1
• Lake, Michael 1
• Larsen, Ben 1
• Larsson, Lennart 1
• López, Bravo 1
• Lotsy, Johannes J. (Karel) 1, 2
• Malenkov, Gueorgui M. 1
• MacMillan, Harold 1
• Moeller, Kurt 1, 2
• Mikoân, Anastas I. 1
• Mitri, Tiberio 1
• Molotov, Viatcheslav M. 1
• Mowbray, Elliott 1, 2, 3
• Mussolini, Benito 1, 2
• Nasser, Gamal Abdel 1, 2
• Nixon, Richard 1, 2, 3, 4
• Naumov, Vladimir N. 1, 2
• Nehru, Jawaharlal 1
• Nkrumah, Kwame 1, 2, 3
• Okoh, Salome 1
• Olander, Gösta 1, 2
• Orwell, George 1, 2
• Osborn, Frederik H. 1
• Padmore, George 1, 2
• Pawlow, Sergej 1, 2, 3
• Pelletier, Louis 1
• Perrott, Roy 1
• Pervuhin, Mikhail 1
• Pico, Benito 1
• Redman, Earl 1, 2
• Roosevelt, Franklin D. 1
• Rous, Stanley 1, 2, 3, 4
• Rowland, Robert R. 1
• Saburov, Maksim 1
• Salizzoni, Angelo 1
• Saltin, Bengt 1
• Saporta, Raimundo 1
• Schaller, Marcel 1
• Shardow, Zachary 1, 2, 3
• Schwartz, Ebbe 1, 2, 3, 4, 5
• Sebes, Gustav 1
• Sedó, Ramón 1
• Sisk, Robert E. 1, 2
• Solís, José 1, 2
• Spassky, Boris 1, 2
• Stalin, Joseph (Iossif Djougachvili) 1, 2, 3, 4, 5
• Stone, Donald 1
• Streibert, Theodore C. 1
• Sukarno Koesno Sosrodihardjo 1
• Syme, Ajimburu 1, 2
• Taimanov, Mark 1, 2, 3
• Tal, Mikhail 1
• Tetteh, Matthew N. 1, 2
• Timms, Charles R. 1
• Tito, Broz Josip (Marshall) 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6
• Thommen, Ernst 1, 2
• Vlot, Nicolaas 1, 2
• Vogl, Joseph 1, 2
• Vorošilov, Kliment 1, 2
• Weyer, Willie 1, 2, 3, 4, 5
• Wickhorst, Frank H. 1
• Wilson, Woodrow 1
• Wolf, Kaspar 1
• Wotherspoon, William W. 1
• Zaccagnini, Benigno 1
• Zador, Ervin 1
• Zátopek, Emile 1
• Zedong, Mao 1
• Zimmermann, Karl 1

Endotes

1 Hochscherf, Tobias, Laucht, Christopher and Andrew Plowman (eds.). Divided, but not Disconnected: German Experiences of the Cold War. New York: Berghahn Books, 2011.

2 “Quand Tito rime avec Franco”. France football, 27 December 1955.

3 About this competition, see: Vonnard, Philippe. A Competition that Shook European Football: the Origins of the European Champion Clubs’ Cup, 1954–1955. Sport in History 34 (2014): 595–619.

4 For an overview on sport studies in international relations, see: Keys, Barbara. International Relations. In Routledge Companion to Sports History, Steven Pope and John Nauright (eds.), 248–267. London and New York: Routlege, 2010; Dichter, Heather. Sport History and Diplomatic History. H-Diplo 122 (2014), http://h-diplo.org/essays/PDF/E122.pdf; Sbetti, Nicola and Umberto Tulli, La fine di una reciproca negazione: riflessioni sullo sport nella storia delle relazioni internazionali, Ricerche di storia politica 2 (2016): 193–202. For a theoretical reflection, see: Beacom, Aaron. Sport in International Relations: A Case for Cross-disciplinary Investigation. Sport in History 20 (2000): 1–23; Murray, Stuart. The Two Halves of Sports-Diplomacy. Diplomacy & Statecraft 23 (2012): 575–592.

5 Ariffin, Yohan. Sport and Global Politics: Still an Unchartered Territory? In Playing to Build Europe. Turning Points in the Europeanization of Football (1914–1989), Philippe Vonnard, Grégory Quin and Nicolas Bancel (eds.), 223–229. Oxford: Peter Lang, 2016.

6 Numerous books exist on the subject of theories in international relations, see...

Table of contents

• Cover
• Title Page
• Copyright
• Table of Contents
• Introduction
• First Part. Creating relations between European states. Sport as tool of diplomacy
• Second part. A European space of exchanges. Crossing the Iron Curtain with sport
• Third Part. Globalizing sport. Europe as a site of international sporting diplomacy
• Afterword
• Bibliography
• Contributors (by alphabetical order)
• Index