Intro -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Introduction. Competing in the Global Arena: Sport and Foreign Relations since 1945 -- Part 1. Alliance Politics -- 1. "A Game of Political Ice Hockey": NATO Restrictions on East German Sport Travel in the Aftermath of the Berlin Wall -- 2. Steadfast Friendship and Brotherly Help: The Distinctive Soviet-East German Sport Relationship within the Socialist Bloc -- 3. Welcoming the "Third World": Soviet Sport Diplomacy, Developing Nations, and the Olympic Games -- Part 2. The Decolonizing World -- 4. Forging Africa-Caribbean Solidarity within the Commonwealth? Sport and Diplomacy during the Anti-apartheid Campaign -- 5. Peronism, International Sport, and Diplomacy -- 6. A More Flexible Domination: Franco-African Sport Diplomacy during Decolonization, 1945-1966 -- Part 3. East-West Rivalries -- 7. The Cold War Games of a Colonial Latin American Nation: San Juan, Puerto Rico, 1966 -- 8. "Our Way of Life against Theirs": Ice Hockey and the Cold War -- 9. "Fuzz Kids" and "Musclemen": The US-Soviet Basketball Rivalry, 1958-1975 -- 10. The White House Games: The Carter Administration's Efforts to Establish an Alternative to the Olympics -- Part 4. Sport as Public Diplomacy -- 11. Reclaiming the Slopes: Sport and Tourism in Postwar Austria -- 12. Politics First, Competition Second: Sport and China's Foreign Diplomacy in the 1960s and 1970s -- 13. Reds, Revolutionaries, and Racists: Surfing, Travel, and Diplomacy in the Reagan Era -- Conclusion. Fields |