Since the 1990s, we have seen the explosion of electorally successful radical rightwing
political parties and movements in Western, Central, and Eastern Europe. De Lange (2012 …

Does soccer explain the world? Or does the world explain soccer? Is soccer a cause of
global integration? Or does it result from global integration? These questions animate much …

This article examines how the news media framed the allegations made in 2016 against
Cristiano Ronaldo for evading taxes through offshores, and how audiences discussed this …

Rapoport's theory of waves of terrorism has been considered a milestone when studying
terrorist movements worldwide. This theory states that terrorism develops due to temporal …

FIFA was created in Zurich in 1904 in order to oversee international football competitions
among eight European states. The fact that FIFA was created by eight European states at the …

This paper explores the correlations between football (soccer), culture and religion. It offers
a short historical introduction on the origins and rise of the game in Europe and in mission …

Football (soccer) is the most popular sport in the world, a game that arouses the type of hot-
tempered passions not experienced in other sports. Like other sporting activities in Africa …

In this paper, I examine the dominant discourses surrounding the role of soccer in human
societies and the international arena. Following Gearóid Ó Tuathail, I argue that there are …

Objectives This article relies on data from two samples of 47 and 49 European countries
from 1950 through 2011 and 1,980 and 1,960 football domestic leagues, respectively, to …

The World Cup as World History uses football's premier event to analyze modern sports and
world history. William D. Bowman traces the history of a tournament that has become a …