The Changing Politics of Sport

This book, the successor to The Politics of Sport, published in 1986, examines how sport is changing and playing an increasingly important part in world politics.The authors show how the old politics of sport, concerned with apartheid and the Cold War and with maintaining the bastions of amateurism and self regulation, is disappearing. In its place have emerged new pressures: the extreme demands of nationalism, commercialism and the performance principle.The book offers a coherent analysis of change which links events in the Olympic movement, South Africa, Ireland, the former communist states and Germany.This book is essential reading for students and teachers of politics, international relations and sports administration and will also appeal to the general reader with an interest in politics and sport.Table of Contents:The changing context of sporting life by Lincoln AllisonSport and ideology in the post-Communist age by John HobermanSoviet-style sport in Eastern Europe: the end of an era by Jim RiordanSport, nationalism, and cultural identity by Grant JarvieThe politics of the Olympic movement by Christopher R. HillDevelopments in sporting law by Ken FosterPoliticians and sport : uses and abuses by Terry MonningtonSport and the end of apartheid by Adrian GuelkeNational identity, community relations, and the sporting life in Northern Ireland by John Sugden and Alan BairnerSport as an environmental issue by Lincoln Allison