Sport and international politics / edited by Pierre Arnaud and James Riordan.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Sport, a means of national representation / Pierre Arnaud -- Sport and international relations before 1918 / Pierre Arnaud -- 'Nazi Olympics' and the American boycott controversy / Allen Guttmann -- Foreign Office and the Football Association : British sport and appeasement, 1935-1938 / Richard Holt -- Sports policy of the Soviet Union, 1917-1941 / James Riordan -- Role of sport in German international politics, 1918-1945 / Arnd Krüger -- Spanish sports policy in Republican and Fascist Spain / Teresa Gonzalez Aja -- French sport and the emergence of authoritarian regimes, 1919-1939 / Pierre Arnaud -- Italian sport and international relations under fascism / Angela Teja -- Belgian Catholic gymnastic movement in its international context, 1908-1940 / Jan Tolleneer -- Between revolutionary demands and diplomatic necessity : the uneasy relationship between Soviet sport and worker and bourgeois sport in Europe from 1920 to 1937 / André Gounot -- Interwar sport and interwar relations : some conclusions / Richard Holt.