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Sport as a Tool for Strengthening a Political Alliance: The Case of the Eastern Bloc during the Cold War

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Kobieracki M. M.
The Polish Quarterly of International Affairs
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2016
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issue 2
7-24
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The aim of the article is to investigate sports exchanges within the Eastern Bloc from the perspective of their diplomatic significance. Such exchanges were intended to strengthen the alliance by generating friendship between the societies of its member states. This objective was not fulfilled, and positive sports diplomacy between the communist states failed. The article proves the hypothesis that the use of sport to strengthen the Eastern Bloc should not be associated exclusively with the interests of the Soviet Union, but with those of the communist governments of the allied countries in general. The investigation also sought the reasons for the failure of the whole initiative.
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Sport as a Tool of Building Political Alliances: The Case of the Games of New Emerging Forces (GANEFO)

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Kobieracki M. M.
The Polish Quarterly of International Affairs
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2016
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issue 4
105-121
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This article investigates the issue of sports diplomacy pursued in order to build political alliances. The research is a case study concerning an attempt to bring the non-aligned countries closer through the Games of New Emerging Forces (GANEFO). The aim of the research is to establish whether the GANEFO were in fact an attempt to create a political alliance. This initiative was developed by communist China and Indonesia, therefore the research also refers to their political motivations concerning the event. This allowed testing of the hypothesis that the GANEFO were the simultaneous result of independent sports diplomacies pursued by Beijing and Jakarta, even though they cooperated.
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