Amerykańsko-radzieckie wymiany koszykarskie… jako przypadek z pogranicza pozytywnej i negatywnej dyplomacji sportowej

Authors

  • Michał Marcin Kobierecki Uniwersytet Łódzki

Abstract

The aim of the article is to investigate basketball exchanges between United States and Soviet
Union from the perspective of sports diplomacy. The research is directed at determining its
significance in affecting political relation between the two states.
In the article, an attempt to answer three research questions was made. The first one is
whether USA-USSR basketball diplomacy served only the rapprochement between the
countries, or at the same time to use sports victories in order to prove their superiority,
combining positive and negative sports diplomacy. The other research questions are: were
the exchanges particularly in basketball appropriate concerning its diplomatic purpose,
and whether basketball diplomacy was reflecting or creating the state of Soviet-American
relations.
Key words: USA and USSR relations, sports diplomacy, basketball diplomacy

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Published

2017-08-05

Issue

Vol. 17 No. 214 (2016): Annales Universitatis Paedagogicae Cracoviensis. Studia Politologica XVII

Section

Scientific paper

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