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• VOLUME ONE: SPORT IN HISTORYSport in the Western Civilizing Process - Eric Dunning Sport and International Relations before 1918 - Pierre Arnaud Sport, Politics and the Engaged Historian - Allen GuttmannIntroduction: Sport and politics - Jeffrey HillHistory and Sport - Martin PolleyReframing the Direction of Change in the History of Sport - Nancy StrunaThe State of British Sport History - William BakerThe Impact of Communism on Sport - James RiordanSport Participation in the German Democratic Republic - Michael DennisThe Decline of Mass Sport Provision in the German Democratic Republic - Jonathan GrixJapan’s Sports Diplomacy in the Early Post-Second World War Years - Sayuri Guthrie-Shimizu Sociological Reflections on Sport, Violence and Civilization - Eric DunningThe Making of the IOC Environmental Policy as the Third Dimension of the Olympic Movement - Hart Cantelon and Michael LettersGlobalizing the Nation-Making Process: Modern Sport in World History - Mark DyresonThe State of Play: Women in British Sport History - Carol Osborne and Fiona SkillenVOLUME TWO: SPORT AND INTERNATIONAL RELATIONSWhat Price Victory? The World of International Sports and Politics - Andrew StrenkSport and International Relations: A Case of Mutual Neglect - T. TaylorThe Role and Importance of Sport in International Relations - Richard EspySport, Prestige and International Relations - Lincoln Allison and Terry Monnington Sport’s Role in Constructing the ‘Inter-State’ Worldview - Roger Levermore The Contested Terrain of Sport Diplomacy in a Globalizing World - Steven JacksonSport in International Relations: A Case for Cross-Disciplinary Investigation - Aaron Beacom Sport for Decolonization: Exploring a New Praxis of Sport for Development - Simon Darnell and Lyndsay HayhurstSport as an Opiate of International Relations: The Myth and Illusion of Sport as a Tool of Foreign Diplomacy - Robert RedekerBuilding Sport Countries’ Overseas Identity and Reputation: A Case Study of Public Paradiplomacy - Jordi XifraSports Mega-Events as Part of a Nation’s Soft Power Strategy: The Cases of Germany (2006) and the UK (2012) - Jonathan Grix and Barrie HoulihanThe USA and Sporting Diplomacy: Comparing and Contrasting the Cases of Table Tennis with China and Baseball with Cuba in the 1970s - Thomas Carter and John Sugden‘Image’ Leveraging and Sports Mega-Events: Germany and the 2006 World Cup - Jonathan GrixChina’s Foreign Policy in Sport: The Primacy of National Security and Territorial Integrity Concerning the Taiwan Question - Junwei YuThe Politics of Sport Diplomacy and Reunification in Divided Korea: One Nation, Two Countries and Three Flags - Udo MerkelThe Sport for Development and Peace Sector: A Critical Sociological Analysis - R. Giulianotti and G. ArmstrongVOLUME THREE: SPORT AND DOMESTIC POLITICS/POLICYModernization and Sport: The Reform of Sport England and UK Sport - Barrie Houlihan and Mick GreenWhy Do Governments Invest in Elite Sport? A Polemic - Jonathan Grix and Fiona CarmichaelMechanisms of International Influence on Domestic Elite Sport Policy - Barrie HoulihanHow to Influence National Pride? The Olympic Medal Index as a Unifying Narrative - Ivo van Hilvoorde, Agnes Elling and Ruud StokvisBringing Structures Back In: The ‘Governance Narrative’, the ‘Decentred Approach’ and ‘Asymmetrical Network Governance’ in the Education and Sport Policy Communities - Mark Goodwin and Jonathan GrixPublic Policies on Sport Development: Can Mass and Elite Sport Hold Together? - Mike CollinsCentralized Grassroots Sport Policy and ‘New Governance’: A Case Study of County Sports Partnerships in the UK – Unpacking the Paradox - Lesley Phillpots, Jonathan Grix and Tom Quarmby Delivery networks and community sport in England - Spencer Harris & Barrie HoulihanSports Policy - Peter BramhamTowards Social Leverage of Sport Events - Laurence ChalipProperty ownership, resource use, and the ′gift of nature′ - Neil Ravenscroft, Andrew Church and Paul GilchristUnderstanding Sport Clubs as Sport Policy Implementers: A Theoretical Framework for the Analysis of the Implementation of Central Sport Policy through Local and Voluntary Sport Organizations - Eivind SkilleSport Policy Development in New Zealand: Paradoxes of an Integrative Paradigm - Michael Sam and Steven JacksonCritical Policy Analysis: The Illustrative Case of New Zealand Sport Policy Development - Laurence ChalipSupporters, Followers, Fans, and Flaneurs: A Taxonomy of Spectator Identities in Football - Richard GiulianottiSteroids and the State: Dubin, Melodrama and the Accomplishment of Innocence - John MacAloonPublic Sector Sport Policy: Developing a Framework for Analysis - Barrie HoulihanVOLUME FOUR: THE POLITICS OF SPORTSport and Social Class - Pierre BourdieuWhere’s the Virtue? Where’s the Grace? A Discussion of the Social Production of Gender Relations in and through Sport - Jennifer HargreavesMedia Image: Sport, Gender and National Identities in Five European Countries - Gerd von der LippeReproducing Gender? Intergenerational Links and the Male PE Teacher as a Cultural Conduit in Teaching Physical Education - David Brown and John EvansHow a Turn to Critical Race Theory Can Contribute to Our Understanding of ‘Race’, Racism and Anti-Racism in Sport - Kevin HyltonRace, Politics and Sport - Colin TatzFrom Racial Exclusions to New Inclusions: Black and Minority Ethnic Participation in Football Clubs in the East Midlands of England - Steven BradburySport, Masculinity and Black Cultural Resistance - Ben CarringtonTaking the Politics Out of Sport? Australian Press Coverage of South African-Australian Sport, 1992–1994 - Susan McKayAmateurism, Sport and the Left: Amateurism for All versus Amateur Elitism - James RiordanCommunitarianism, Sport and Social Capital: ‘Neighbourly Insights into Scottish Sport’ - Grant JarvieSport and Social Capital - ∅rnulf SeippelNeoliberalism’s Last Lap? NASCAR Nation and the Cultural Politics of Sport - Joshua Newman and Michael GiardinaDaughters of Islam: Family Influences on Muslim Young Women′s Participation in Sport - Tess Kay

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• VOLUME ONE: SPORT IN HISTORYSport in the Western Civilizing Process - Eric Dunning Sport and International Relations before 1918 - Pierre Arnaud Sport, Politics and the Engaged Historian - Allen GuttmannIntroduction: Sport and politics - Jeffrey HillHistory and Sport - Martin PolleyReframing the Direction of Change in the History of Sport - Nancy StrunaThe State of British Sport History - William BakerThe Impact of Communism on Sport - James RiordanSport Participation in the German Democratic Republic - Michael DennisThe Decline of Mass Sport Provision in the German Democratic Republic - Jonathan GrixJapan’s Sports Diplomacy in the Early Post-Second World War Years - Sayuri Guthrie-Shimizu Sociological Reflections on Sport, Violence and Civilization - Eric DunningThe Making of the IOC Environmental Policy as the Third Dimension of the Olympic Movement - Hart Cantelon and Michael LettersGlobalizing the Nation-Making Process: Modern Sport in World History - Mark DyresonThe State of Play: Women in British Sport History - Carol Osborne and Fiona SkillenVOLUME TWO: SPORT AND INTERNATIONAL RELATIONSWhat Price Victory? The World of International Sports and Politics - Andrew StrenkSport and International Relations: A Case of Mutual Neglect - T. TaylorThe Role and Importance of Sport in International Relations - Richard EspySport, Prestige and International Relations - Lincoln Allison and Terry Monnington Sport’s Role in Constructing the ‘Inter-State’ Worldview - Roger Levermore The Contested Terrain of Sport Diplomacy in a Globalizing World - Steven JacksonSport in International Relations: A Case for Cross-Disciplinary Investigation - Aaron Beacom Sport for Decolonization: Exploring a New Praxis of Sport for Development - Simon Darnell and Lyndsay HayhurstSport as an Opiate of International Relations: The Myth and Illusion of Sport as a Tool of Foreign Diplomacy - Robert RedekerBuilding Sport Countries’ Overseas Identity and Reputation: A Case Study of Public Paradiplomacy - Jordi XifraSports Mega-Events as Part of a Nation’s Soft Power Strategy: The Cases of Germany (2006) and the UK (2012) - Jonathan Grix and Barrie HoulihanThe USA and Sporting Diplomacy: Comparing and Contrasting the Cases of Table Tennis with China and Baseball with Cuba in the 1970s - Thomas Carter and John Sugden‘Image’ Leveraging and Sports Mega-Events: Germany and the 2006 World Cup - Jonathan GrixChina’s Foreign Policy in Sport: The Primacy of National Security and Territorial Integrity Concerning the Taiwan Question - Junwei YuThe Politics of Sport Diplomacy and Reunification in Divided Korea: One Nation, Two Countries and Three Flags - Udo MerkelThe Sport for Development and Peace Sector: A Critical Sociological Analysis - R. Giulianotti and G. ArmstrongVOLUME THREE: SPORT AND DOMESTIC POLITICS/POLICYModernization and Sport: The Reform of Sport England and UK Sport - Barrie Houlihan and Mick GreenWhy Do Governments Invest in Elite Sport? A Polemic - Jonathan Grix and Fiona CarmichaelMechanisms of International Influence on Domestic Elite Sport Policy - Barrie HoulihanHow to Influence National Pride? The Olympic Medal Index as a Unifying Narrative - Ivo van Hilvoorde, Agnes Elling and Ruud StokvisBringing Structures Back In: The ‘Governance Narrative’, the ‘Decentred Approach’ and ‘Asymmetrical Network Governance’ in the Education and Sport Policy Communities - Mark Goodwin and Jonathan GrixPublic Policies on Sport Development: Can Mass and Elite Sport Hold Together? - Mike CollinsCentralized Grassroots Sport Policy and ‘New Governance’: A Case Study of County Sports Partnerships in the UK – Unpacking the Paradox - Lesley Phillpots, Jonathan Grix and Tom Quarmby Delivery networks and community sport in England - Spencer Harris & Barrie HoulihanSports Policy - Peter BramhamTowards Social Leverage of Sport Events - Laurence ChalipProperty ownership, resource use, and the ′gift of nature′ - Neil Ravenscroft, Andrew Church and Paul GilchristUnderstanding Sport Clubs as Sport Policy Implementers: A Theoretical Framework for the Analysis of the Implementation of Central Sport Policy through Local and Voluntary Sport Organizations - Eivind SkilleSport Policy Development in New Zealand: Paradoxes of an Integrative Paradigm - Michael Sam and Steven JacksonCritical Policy Analysis: The Illustrative Case of New Zealand Sport Policy Development - Laurence ChalipSupporters, Followers, Fans, and Flaneurs: A Taxonomy of Spectator Identities in Football - Richard GiulianottiSteroids and the State: Dubin, Melodrama and the Accomplishment of Innocence - John MacAloonPublic Sector Sport Policy: Developing a Framework for Analysis - Barrie HoulihanVOLUME FOUR: THE POLITICS OF SPORTSport and Social Class - Pierre BourdieuWhere’s the Virtue? Where’s the Grace? A Discussion of the Social Production of Gender Relations in and through Sport - Jennifer HargreavesMedia Image: Sport, Gender and National Identities in Five European Countries - Gerd von der LippeReproducing Gender? Intergenerational Links and the Male PE Teacher as a Cultural Conduit in Teaching Physical Education - David Brown and John EvansHow a Turn to Critical Race Theory Can Contribute to Our Understanding of ‘Race’, Racism and Anti-Racism in Sport - Kevin HyltonRace, Politics and Sport - Colin TatzFrom Racial Exclusions to New Inclusions: Black and Minority Ethnic Participation in Football Clubs in the East Midlands of England - Steven BradburySport, Masculinity and Black Cultural Resistance - Ben CarringtonTaking the Politics Out of Sport? Australian Press Coverage of South African-Australian Sport, 1992–1994 - Susan McKayAmateurism, Sport and the Left: Amateurism for All versus Amateur Elitism - James RiordanCommunitarianism, Sport and Social Capital: ‘Neighbourly Insights into Scottish Sport’ - Grant JarvieSport and Social Capital - ∅rnulf SeippelNeoliberalism’s Last Lap? NASCAR Nation and the Cultural Politics of Sport - Joshua Newman and Michael GiardinaDaughters of Islam: Family Influences on Muslim Young Women′s Participation in Sport - Tess Kay