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Dyplomacja sportowa jako kategoria nauk o polityce
Sports diplomacy as a category of political science

Author(s): Michał Marcin Kobierecki
Subject(s): Politics / Political Sciences, Politics, Political Sciences
Published by: Wydawnictwo Adam Marszałek
Keywords: sports diplomacy; public diplomacy; politics on sport

Summary/Abstract: The aim of the article is to investigate the term ‘sports diplomacy’. Although the significance of sport in diplomacy seems to be recognized and understood by scholars in Poland, it has not been analysed in a deeper way so far. As the term is usually regarded as one of the dimensions of public diplomatic, the role and place of sport within public diplomacy is also analysed. In the article, a number of ways of understanding sports diplomacy by various scholars will be introduced. Scientist tend to regard this term differently, especially in respect to its range. Therefore, an attempt to provide the most appropriate way of understanding sports diplomacy will be conducted.

  • Issue Year: 51/2016
  • Issue No: 3
  • Page Range: 113-128
  • Page Count: 16
  • Language: Polish
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