The geopolitical economy of sport: Power, politics, money, and the state

Recommended by: Anirudh Kalia

Content:

Part I: Russia and Ukraine
Athletes' early responses to the war against Ukraine / Leo Goretti
Sport sanctions against invasive Russia / Daryl Adair
What future for Putin's sport power? / Lukas Aubin
Governance dysfunction in world sport: issues raised by the conflict in Ukraine / Sergey Altukhov
Public remembering of Sochi 2014 at a time of war: the Kremlin's soft
Disempowerment through sport / Vitaly Kazakov
Transnational leagues and their role in projecting soft power / Oliver Jarosz, Konstantin Kornakov, and Adam Metelski
Part II: China
The international paralympic committee, Beijing 2022 winter paralympic games and the invasion of the Ukraine Verity Postlethwaite
Israel's winter sports diplomacy and Beijing / Yoav Dubinsky
The global sporting power elite / Eileen Gu, Donna Wong and Yue Meng-Lewis
China's moves to influence the geopolitical economy of sports: the three axe strokes / Lingling Liu and Dan Zhang
Making of (not only) a sports superpower: the Chinese Dream / Abhishek Khajuria
Chinese super league: soft power, investment and sustainability / Ricardo Gúdel and Emilio Hernández
Doing sports business in China: still a slam dunk? / Jonathan Sullivan and Tobias Ross
Part III: the Gulf and South Asia
Qatar and the 2022 FIFA World Cup: soft power, state branding, or nation building? / Kristian Coates Ulrichsen
Geopolitics of sport in the MENA region / Mahfoud Amara and Sara Mehanna Al-Naimi
Sport and Saudi Arabia: mimetic isomorphism, soft power, and disempowerment / Nick Burton and Michael L. Naraine
Sport washing and the Gulf Region: myth or reality? / Simon Chadwick and Paul Widdop
Geopolitics of cricket in India / Mohit Anand
Part IV: Africa
Africa in the global football business complex / Gerald Akindes
The NBA's partnership with Rwanda / Michael M. Goldman and Jeffrey W. Paller Part V: Football
The politics of alternative football: curious friends / Steve Menary
The conjunctural politics of the 2026 FIFA Men's World Cup: United 2026
Adam S. Beissel
The attempted reshaping of the Turkish football landscape under the AK party: a transaction cost economics explanation / Steven H. Seggie
Football and the city: a sports place branding perspective of Barcelona and Manchester / Xavier Ginesta and Carles Viñas
The European super league and football's privatisation / Alexey Kirichek
Part VI: motorsport
Sport governance, geopolitical change, and organizational resilience: the case of Fédération Internationale de l'Automobile (FIA) / Hans Erik Næss
The geopolitics of money versus morals: location, location, location of the Formula 1 race calendar / Tim Dewhirst
The end of oil: formula one's changing face / Josh Rayman
Part VII: peace, diplomacy and society
Sport, Geo-Politics and the peace process / Grant Jarvie
Sports diplomacy in the Pacific Region and the Sino-Australian great game / Stuart Murray and Tony Yang
Sports, race, and cosmopolitanism / J.P. Singh
Transgender sport bans come for elite sport: federations' new attempt to define womanhood / Sydney Bauer
Part VIII: implications
What the cases of gazprom, the NBA & Qatar mean for sport industry decision makers / Simon Chadwick and Paul Widdop