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Soft Power Politics - Football and Baseball on the Western Pacific Rim

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AFC
Aihua Zhao a
Asia Pacific sport studies
Asia-Pacific
Baseball
Bin Hammam
Brent McDonald b
BWC
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Chien-Yu Lin
Chris McConville
cultural identity in sport
DPP Government
English Premier League
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Football
games
geopolitical sport analysis
Hajime Hirai
High School Baseball
High School Baseball Teams
J.A. Mangan
Japanese Baseball
Japanese baseball history
Jessica Carniel
Keiji Kawai a
Liu Liu c
Mega-sports Events
Modern Sport
NPB
OFC
Okinawan People
olympic
Peter Horton
Peter Horton b
Rugby
Rugby Football
Rugby Union Football
Satoshi Shimizu
Soft Power Politics
Sports Diplomacy
sports migration research
transnational sport and civilisation fault lines
Victorian Fa
Victorian Rules
Western Pacific Rim
Women's Football
women's football China
Women's Football Teams
Women's World Cup
Women’s Football
Women’s Football Teams
Women’s World Cup
World Baseball Classic
Young Man

Product details

  • ISBN 9780415711791
  • Weight: 408g
  • Dimensions: 174 x 246mm
  • Publication Date: 30 Oct 2013
  • Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
  • Publication City/Country: GB
  • Product Form: Hardback
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Soft Power Politics- Past and Present: Football and Baseball on the Western Pacific Rim illustrates the momentous expanse and moment of sport in the Asia Pacific region and through these essays dealing with two of the most prodigious global team sports confronts various cultural clashes that Samuel Huntington would ensure the end of civilisation. They also demonstrate the power sport has to change the world and to inspire and unite people globally. All who sail under the flag of ‘Sport’, as ingenuous as it may seem to the host of cynics that abounds, believe that dialogues that emerge from arguments included in this text represent communication of the highest order and have the potential to produce the cohesion that can close some of those cracks that Huntington said would open up along, what he called the fault lines between civilisations.

This book was published as a special issue of the International Journal of the History of Sport.
About
Rob Hess, Associate Professor College of Sport & Exercise Science at Victoria University. He is an Academic Editor of the IJHS, and is the President of the Australian Society for Sports History, Peter Horton, a Senior Lecturer at James Cook University and Fellow of the Cairns Institute is a member of the Academic Editorial teams of: Africa, Australasia and the Pacific and Asia of the IJHS. J.A. Mangan, Emeritus Professor, University of Strathclyde, (FRHS, FRAI, D. Litt.l) and Adjunct Professor of the Cairns Institute, is the Founding Editor of The International Journal of the History of Sport and the series Sport in the Global Society.