Beyond boycotts : sport during the Cold War in Europe / edited by Philippe Vonnard, Nicola Sbetti and Gr�egory Quin ; Afterword by Martin Polley.

Introduction -- First Part. Creating relations between European states. Sport as tool of diplomacy -- Playing at the border of the Cold War -- An Even Colder War? -- Athletes of Diplomacy -- Second part. A European space of exchanges. Crossing the Iron Curtain with sport - The emergence of Europe-wide collaboration and competition -- Building bridges between separated Europeans -- Cooperation and conflict -- Third Part. Globalizing sport. Europe as a site of international sporting diplomacy -- “Shooting Hoops with Foreign Teams” -- The Ghana Young Pioneers -- “The Russian deadpan expert” vs “America’s white hope” -- A forgotten “ping-pong diplomacy”?

"During the Cold War, sport was used as a means of diplomacy between the two blocks, allowing exchanges between East and West across the Iron Curtain. Focusing on Europe, this book offers new insights in sports history, a growing research field, which up to know offered relatively few studies on the Cold War era"-- Provided by publisher.