Beyond Boycotts : Sport During the Cold War in Europe.

Intro -- Preface and Acknowledgments -- Table of Contents -- Introduction -- First Part. Creating relations between European states. Sport as tool of diplomacy -- Playing at the border of the Cold War -- An Even Colder War? -- Athletes of Diplomacy -- Second part. A European space of exchanges. Crossing the Iron Curtain with sport -- The emergence of Europe-wide collaboration and competition -- Building bridges between separated Europeans -- Cooperation and conflict -- Third Part. Globalizing sport. Europe as a site of international sporting diplomacy -- "Shooting Hoops with Foreign Teams" -- The Ghana Young Pioneers -- "The Russian deadpan expert" vs "America's white hope" -- A forgotten "ping-pong diplomacy"? -- Afterword -- Bibliography -- Contributors (by alphabetical order) -- Index.

The peer-reviewed series offers books that illuminate the multifaceted history of the Cold War in both its European and Global dimensions, across and beyond the Iron Curtain. It focuses on the interactions, interdependencies and co-operation of Eastern state socialist countries (and their citizens) with Western capitalist, Latin American, African and non-aligned states (and their citizens), as well as with China.

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