Cover -- Sport and International Politics -- Copyright -- Contents -- List of Contributors -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- 1. Sport-A Means of National Representation -- Sport and Gymnastics: A Cultural Problem, a Political Alternative -- Effects of Context, Effects of Circumstance -- What Stakes? -- Independence of Sports Powers and Political Powers -- Divisions in Sports Organizations and the Problem of Citizenship -- Sporting Events and Forms of Political Action -- References -- 2. Sport and International Relations Before 1918 -- Beginnings -- Moving from a Local to a National Level -- The Initial Stages of the Internationalization of Sport -- The First National Teams and the First International Matches -- Sport and International Relations: Teething Problems -- Appendix: Prophecies…? -- References -- 3. The 'Nazi Olympics' and the American Boycott Controversy -- References -- 4. The Foreign Office and the Football Association: British Sport and Appeasement, 1935-1938 -- Acknowledgements -- References -- 5. The Sports Policy of the Soviet Union, 1917-1941 -- Promoting Proletarian Internationalism, 1917-28 -- Strengthening the Ussr as a Nation-State, 1928-39 -- Promoting Good-Neighbourly Relations -- Relations with the Axis Powers, 1939-41 -- Some Conclusions -- References -- 6. The Role of Sport in German International Politics, 1918-1945 -- Introduction -- Isolation and International Growth -- Crises and Chances -- A Coordinated Sports Movement -- Fooling the Enemy -- Optimal Preparation -- Approaching War -- International Sport During the Second World War -- Conclusion -- References -- 7. Spanish Sports Policy in Republican and Fascist Spain -- From the First to the Second Republic -- Sport in Franco's Spain -- References -- 8. French Sport and the Emergence of Authoritarian Regimes, 1919-1939 -- The Stadium: A New Battlefield?.

Sport as an Affair of the State -- The Course of Action Taken by the Department of French Ventures Abroad (Sofe) -- The Main Thing Is to Win! -- War and Peace, Suspicion and Exclusion -- The Question of Germany or the Illusions of Pacifism -- Events Held 'In Secret'… -- …and Events Held in Occupied Territories -- National Prestige and the First Incidents -- The Possibility of Peace at the Colombes Stadium -- Games of Victory or Games of Peace -- Gently, but Not Too Gently… -- From Rome to Berlin -- Munich-A Major Sporting City -- Conclusions -- Sources -- References -- 9. Italian Sport and International Relations Under Fascism -- The Golden Age of Physical Education -- Party Control -- Rejection of Competitive Sport -- The 'Carta Dello Sport' -- Change of Direction -- Sport and Diplomacy -- Role of the Mass Media -- Sport and Champions -- New Trends in Sports Policy -- The Final Exaltation of Political Sport -- References -- 10. The Belgian Catholic Gymnastic Movement in Its International Context, 1908-1940 -- Before the First World War -- Interwar Relations with Germany -- Belgium and Orel -- Conclusions -- References -- 11. Between Revolutionary Demands and Diplomatic Necessity: The Uneasy Relationship Between Soviet Sport and Worker and Bourgeois Sport in Europe from 1920 to 1937 -- Introduction -- Training 'Athletes of the Revolution': The Creation of Red Sport International -- The Quest for a Coherent Policy on Sport -- The Relationship with Bourgeois Sport -- Relations with the Lucerne Sport International (1925-1927) -- The Ussr in the International Network of Communist Sport -- 1934: A Change of Direction -- Conclusions -- Sources -- References -- 12. Interwar Sport and Interwar Relations: Some Conclusions -- References -- Index.