The Journal
Olympic Diplomacy as Contestation: The Legacy of the Beijing Olympics
Emidio Diodato & Veronica Strina
Pages: 1-16
Emerging Negative Soft Power: The Evolution of China’s Identity in the 2008 and 2022 Beijing Olympics Opening and Closing Ceremonies
Michelle Cabula & Stefano Pochettino
Pages: 17-34
The European Contestation of the Beijing 2022 Winter Olympics: A Media Perspective
Veronica Strina & Michael Göbbel
Pages: 35-56
The People’s Republic of China’s ‘Green Medal Strategy’: Environmental Discourse during the 2008 and 2022 Beijing Olympic Games within the Soft Power Arena
Francesca Vomeri & Maurizio Gregori
Pages: 57-74
There are another two articles in this issue with sporting relevance outside the Core, “The Rebellious Game: The Power of Football in the Middle East and North Africa between the Global and the Local” by Jan Busse & René Wildangel, and “More than a Game: Football and Soft Power in the Gulf” by Cinzia Bianco & Sebastian Sons. Click here for the whole issue.
The Launch
“Sport and International Relations between Fragmentation and Contestation” is also the name of a webinar, presented thus:
The event aims at giving selected speakers and the public a fruitful occasion to discuss about the relationship between sport and International Relations in an increasingly fragmented world. Within this context, The International Spectator, the peer-reviewed journal of IAI, presents its latest Issue (June 2023) and the Special Core “Olympic Diplomacy as Contestation: The Legacy of the Beijing Olympics”.
The Program
17:30-17:40 Introduction
Leo Goretti
Editor of The International Spectator
17:40–18:30 Panel Discussion
Chair: Leo Goretti
Olympic Diplomacy as Contestation: Rethinking Olympism and the World Liberal Order
Emidio Diodato
Professor of Political Science, University for Foreigners of Perugia
The Legacy of the Beijing Olympics
Veronica Strina
PhD student in Diplomacy and International Cooperation, University for Foreigners of Perugia
A Contested Game: Football between Local Power Dynamics, Regional Geopolitics and Global Entanglements
Jan Busse
Senior Research Fellow in Global Politics and Conflict Studies, Institute of Political Science of the University of the Bundeswehr Munich
René Wildangel
Independent author and Adjunct Lecturer at the Black Sea and Eastern Mediterranean Program, International Hellenic University of Thessaloniki
ISOs and the International System
Francesco Belcastro
Senior Lecturer, University of Derby
Discussant
Nicola Sbetti
Italian Society of the History of Sport (SISS), University of Bologna Q&A
18:30–19:00 Q&A
Go to this page to register for this event
[…] Beijing 2022 contrasts sharply with its Beijing 2008 Summer equivalent following the marked deterioration in the intervening years of the relationship between the West (broadly conceived) and the People’s Republic of China. The diplomatic term “deep freeze” was peculiarly apt for an event based on snow and ice. A partial diplomatic boycott prompted by China’s treatment of its Uyghur people turned the event into something of a public relations liability. […]