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The Balkan Games and Balkan Politics in the Interwar Years 1929 – 1939 - Penelope Kissoudi

The Balkan Games and Balkan Politics in the Interwar Years 1929 – 1939

Politicians in Pursuit of Peace
Buch | Hardcover
210 Seiten
2009
Routledge (Verlag)
978-0-415-48645-3 (ISBN)
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The study discusses the role of the Balkan Games in the interwar years in promoting goodwill and cooperation between antagonist states in a Balkan scene of long established suspicion, traditional hostility and territorial claims.
The Balkan Games resulted on the one hand from the growth of modern European sport and the unsatisfactory performances of the Balkan athletes at national and international level, and on the other hand, from a desire to bring the Balkan peoples together in peace and concord. The Games were initiated in Athens in 1929 and increasingly became an integral part of the political, cultural and social life of the area. The common global reality is that when an athletic event is staged, attempted friendship seldom receives priority. In the 1930s, however, the Balkan Games provided a rare example of an international athletic event bringing antagonistic states together in friendship. This consideration of the significance of the Balkan Games as an instrument of political optimism provides clear evidence of the occasional positive influence of sport in politics. The work is a case-study of interest to political and social scientists and to historians of Europe and sport.

This book was previously published as a special issue of the International Journal of the History of Sport.

Penelope Kissoudi is affiliated with the University of Thessaloniki, Greece.

1. Prologue: Argument – the Balkan Games and Political Purpose 2. Sport, Politics and International Relations in the Twentieth Century: the Positive and Negative Roles of Sport in Trans-National Relations 3. Balkan Politics: Relations Between the Balkan States in the Interwar Years and the Role of the Great Powers in the Region 4. Sport in the Balkans Prior to the Early 1930's 5. Sport, Politics and International Relations in the Balkans: the Balkan Games From 1929 to 1932 6. Sport, Politics and International Relations in the Balkans: the Balkan Games From 1933 to 1935 7. Sport, Politics and International Relations in the Balkans: the Balkan Games From 1936 to 1939 8. Epilogue: Recapitulation - the Balkan Games as an Instrument of Political Purpose

Erscheint lt. Verlag 29.6.2009
Reihe/Serie Sport in the Global Society
Verlagsort London
Sprache englisch
Maße 174 x 246 mm
Gewicht 536 g
Themenwelt Sachbuch/Ratgeber Sport
Geschichte Allgemeine Geschichte 1918 bis 1945
Geisteswissenschaften Geschichte Regional- / Ländergeschichte
Geschichte Teilgebiete der Geschichte Kulturgeschichte
ISBN-10 0-415-48645-9 / 0415486459
ISBN-13 978-0-415-48645-3 / 9780415486453
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