Grix Brannagan and Houlihan - WORD FINAL - Interrogating States' Soft Power Strategies.pdf (301.51 kB)
Interrogating states’ soft power strategies: a case study of sports mega-events in Brazil and the UK
journal contribution
posted on 2015-08-14, 13:32 authored by Jonathan Grix, Paul Brannagan, Barrie HoulihanCentral to this article is the use of sports mega-events as part of a state's “soft power” strategy. The article offers two things: first, a critique of the “soft power” concept and a clearer understanding of what it refers to by drawing on the political use of sports mega-events by states; second, the article seeks to understand how and why sports mega-events are attractive to states with different political systems and at different stages of economic development. To this end a case study of an advanced capitalist state (London Olympics, 2012) and a so-called “emerging” state (FIFA World Cup, 2014; Rio Olympics, 2016) will be undertaken in order to shed light on the role of sports events as part of soft power strategies across different categories of states.
History
School
- Sport, Exercise and Health Sciences
Published in
Global SocietyVolume
29Issue
3Pages
463 - 479Citation
GRIX, J., BRANNAGAN, P.M. and HOULIHAN, B., 2015. Interrogating states’ soft power strategies: a case study of sports mega-events in Brazil and the UK. Global Society, 29 (3), pp. 463 - 479.Publisher
Taylor and Francis / © University of KentVersion
- AM (Accepted Manuscript)
Publisher statement
This work is made available according to the conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0) licence. Full details of this licence are available at: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/Publication date
2015Notes
This is an Accepted Manuscript of an article published by Taylor & Francis in Global Society on 10 Jun 2015, available online: http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/13600826.2015.1047743ISSN
1360-0826eISSN
1469-798XPublisher version
Language
- en