Culture and Globalisation The Role of Sports in International Relations
Culture and Globalisation The Role of Sports in International Relations

Summary/Abstract: The sport became and continue to be a major sanction tool in international relations in apositive way. By its increasing effects it is one of the most important cases from the past century tonowadays. The sportive competitions executed previously by a very small minority has influencealmost all the world before the Olympic Games, and then other organizations (especially football).The sport has become even a phenomena more widespread than the facts such as the democracy, thefree market, and even the freedom. The sport has been a decisive instrument in national andinternational politics. As a global phenomenon it has the popularity due to the governmental socioeconomicconditions of communities. It takes place in the consumption phenomenon accelerated bythe globalization. The politically bipolar world was considered as a world based on competitionbetween two camps which have established the culture, art, sports, literature, technology, military andpolicy. In fact the sport in that period played a significant role in the test of power and competitionbetween the two poles in an environment without war, because athletic competitions mean the war ofwhich the results are not death. The economic effects of the globalization also show itself in the sportsindustry.

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