Diplomatic Games (eBook)

lt;P>Heather L. Dichter is associate professor of sport management and sport history at De Montfort University and a member of DMU's International Centre for Sports History and Culture. She is the coeditor of Olympic Reform Ten Years Later.

Andrew L. Johns is associate professor of history at Brigham Young University and the David M. Kennedy Center for International Studies. His books include Vietnam's Second Front: Domestic Politics, the Republican Party, and the War and The Eisenhower Administration, the Third World, and the Globalization of the Cold War.

Competing in the Global Arena: Sport and Foreign Relations since 1945A Game of Political Ice Hockey: NATO Restrictions on East German Sport Travel in the Aftermath of the Berlin WallSteadfast Friendship and Brotherly Help: The Distinctive Soviet-East German Sport Relationship within the Socialist BlocWelcoming the Third World: Soviet Sports Diplomacy, Developing Nations, and the Olympic GameForging Africa-Caribbean Solidarity within the Commonwealth? Sport and Diplomacy during the Anti-Apartheid CampaignPeronism, International Sport, and DiplomacyA More Flexible Domination: Franco-African Sport Diplomacy during Decolonization, 1945-196The Cold War Games of a Colonial Latin American Nation: San Juan, Puerto Rico, 1966Our Way of Life Against Theirs: Ice Hockey and the Cold WarFuzz Kids and Musclemen: The U.S.-Soviet Basketball Rivalry, 1958-1975The White House Games: The Carter Administration's Efforts to Establish an Alternative to the OlympicsReclaiming the Slopes: Sport and Tourism in Post-War AustriaPolitics First, Competition Second: Sport and China's Foreign Diplomacy in the 1960s and 1970sReds, Revolutionaries, and Racists: Surfing, Travel, and Diplomacy in the Reagan EraConclusion: Fields of Dreams and Diplomacy