This book offers an accessible overview of the role sport plays in international relations and diplomacy.

Stuart Murray is an Associate Professor at Bond University, Australia. He is also a Fellow of the Academy of Sport at Edinburgh University, UK and Associate Editor of the journal Diplomacy & Foreign Policy.

Introduction PART 1: Sport, Diplomacy and Traditional Sports Diplomacy 1. A Revised Anthropology of Diplomacy 2. The Essence of Sport 3. Traditional Sports Diplomacy PART 2: Sports Diplomacy in the Plural, Twenty-First Century 4. 'New' Sports Diplomacy 5. Public and Networked Sports Diplomacy: Theories and Limitations PART 3: Non-state Sporting Actors and Diplomacy 6. The Diplomacy of Non-State Sporting Actors: Representation 7. Non-state Sporting Actors: Communication 8. Non-state Sporting Actors: Negotiation, Intelligence Gathering and Dissemination, and the Minimisation of Friction. PART 4: The Dark Side of International Sport 9. Sports Anti-Diplomacy in the State Context 10. Sports Anti-Diplomacy: Brats, Neo-Emperors, Hooligans and Terrorists Extra-time: Ttraditional Versus New Sports Diplomacy