1st Edition
Sport, International Politics and the Nordic States in the Cold War The Small State Perspective
1. Sport and International Politics in the Cold War Nordic Countries: An Introduction
Jens Ljunggren and Martin Ericsson
Part I: Boycotts and Contested Games
2. The Swedish Sport Confederation and the Issue of International Boycotts, 1956‒1975
Martin Ericsson
3. Swedish Sportspersons and the South African Open International Games in 1973: Divergent Perspectives on Sporting Exchange with an Apartheid Regime
Joakim Glaser
4. The 1980 Moscow Olympics Boycott: Why Sweden and Norway Chose Different Paths
Jens Ljunggren and Gudmund Skjeldal
5. Finnish Parliamentary Debates on the South African Sporting Boycott from the 1960s to the 1980s: Whose Responsibility and whose Burden?
Jerkko Holmi
6. Danish Sport Politics during the Cold War: From the Revolt in Hungary 1956 to the Olympic Games in Los Angeles 1984
Jørn Hansen
Part II: Sport And Diplomacy
7. Soviet Sportsmen in Norway in the Early Post-War Years: From Allies to Adversaries
Matti Goksøyr
8. The Finnish Gymnastics and Sport Confederation, 1944‒1952: Sport Politics in the Shadow of the Sickle and Hammer
Vesa Vares
9. The 1957 Moscow World Ice Hockey Championships in Canadian and Swedish Newspapers: Neutrality on Ice?
Peter Bauer and John Berg
10. Sporting Relations between Finland and Soviet Estonia from the 1950s to the End of the Cold War: Sport at the Interface of Politics
Heikki Roiko-Jokela and Tapio Roiko-Jokela
11. Informal Nordic Cold War Sport Diplomacy: A Microhistory of an Olympic Governance Crisis
Jörg Krieger
12. The Politicization of Soviet-Icelandic Sport Relations before the 1980 Moscow Olympics
Þorkell Gunnar Sigurbjörnsson
13. Sport for Peace and Danish Grassroot Sport Activism in the 1980s
Christian Tolstrup Jensen
Biography
Martin Ericsson is a historian and associate professor at Lund University, Sweden.
Jens Ljunggren is a historian specializing in sports history and professor at Stockholm University, Sweden.
