Recognition of National Football Federations and the Diplomatic Role of FIFA

• Authors: Michał Marcin Kobierecki

Abstracts

EN

The paper refers to the category of sports diplomacy and aims to investigate the issue of diplomatic subjectivity of international sports organizations, by the example of FIFA and its prerogative to grant membership to national football federations. Such processes on some occasions are connected to political and diplomatic significance, particularly in relation to states without universal international recognition, for whom participation in international sport is an important tool in their struggle for legitimization. The research question that the author attempts to answer is whether membership of national sports organization in the international sports federations can be meaningful from the perspective of the state’s endeavors toward securing international recognition. The hypothesis stated that the prerogative of international sports bodies such as FIFA to recognize national sports federations enhances their diplomatic subjectivity.

Keywords

EN

FIFA; sport and politics; sports diplomacy; legitimization

• Publisher: Wydawnictwo Adam Marszałek
• Journal: Polish Political Science Yearbook
• Year: 2020
• Issue: 2 (49)
• Pages: 158-169

Dates

published

2020

Contributors

author

Michał Marcin Kobierecki

• University of Łódź

• https://orcid.org/0000000281805710

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Identifiers

DOI

10.15804/ppsy2020209

Biblioteka Nauki

2031780