Bidding for the 1968 Olympic Games
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20th-century global politics
20th-century Olympic controversies
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Archival sport history
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Behind the Olympic bids
Berlin crisis and international sport
Berlin Wall cultural impact
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Cold War diplomacy
Cold War era case studies
Cold War in cultural institutions
Cold War propaganda tools
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Diplomatic uses of athletics
Divided Germany sports history
East German international relations
East Germany travel restrictions
East-West political tensions
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Games bidding rivalries
Geopolitics of global tournaments
German national teams Cold War
Global Cold War case studies
Global influence through sport
Historical Olympic documents
History of international sport
History of Olympic bidding
International relations and leisure
International sporting conflict
International sports relations
Iron Curtain era
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NATO archives research
NATO strategies
Olympic diplomacy
Olympic host city politics
Olympic host country competition
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Political communication through sport
Political history of athletics
Political symbolism in sport
Politics behind international sporting bids
Politics of global sporting events
Politics on the playing field
Postwar German identity
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Soft power in international relations
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Sport and international affairs
Sport as East German propaganda
Sport as political theater
Sports in socialist states
State-sponsored sports programs
Transnational sport history
West German foreign policy
West vs. East ideological conflict
Product details
- ISBN 9781625345943
- Weight: 555g
- Dimensions: 152 x 231mm
- Publication Date: 29 Oct 2021
- Publisher: University of Massachusetts Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Hardback
- Language: English
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During the Cold War, political tensions associated with the division of Germany came to influence the world of competitive sport. In the 1950s, West Germany and its NATO allies refused to recognize the communist East German state and barred its national teams from sporting competitions. The construction of the Berlin Wall in 1961 further exacerbated these pressures, with East German teams denied travel to several world championships. These tensions would only intensify in the run-up to the 1968 Olympics.
In Bidding for the 1968 Olympic Games, Heather L. Dichter considers how NATO and its member states used sport as a diplomatic arena during the height of the Cold War, and how international sport responded to political interference. Drawing on archival materials from NATO, foreign ministries, domestic and international sport functionaries, and newspapers, Dichter examines controversies surrounding the 1968 Summer and Winter Olympic Games, particularly the bidding process between countries to host the events. As she demonstrates, during the Cold War sport and politics became so intertwined that they had the power to fundamentally transform each other.
In Bidding for the 1968 Olympic Games, Heather L. Dichter considers how NATO and its member states used sport as a diplomatic arena during the height of the Cold War, and how international sport responded to political interference. Drawing on archival materials from NATO, foreign ministries, domestic and international sport functionaries, and newspapers, Dichter examines controversies surrounding the 1968 Summer and Winter Olympic Games, particularly the bidding process between countries to host the events. As she demonstrates, during the Cold War sport and politics became so intertwined that they had the power to fundamentally transform each other.
