The connection between nationalism and sport seems at once both obvious and manifest,
with the most lavish praise of the nation often arising at sporting events. While a sizeable …

How can one explain the recent fascination with sport as a tool of government policy in
Russia? This paper argues that sports policy in Russia is an essential part of policies to …

Racist violence in Russia has recently become a subject of interest to scholars and analysts
of Russian politics. What are the similarities and differences between racist violence in …

This chapter analyses the recent trend of Eurasian states to host significant international
sporting events to examine whether mega events in Eurasia are mechanisms of norm …

In the summer of 2018, the Russian Federation hosted the FIFA World Cup. Despite a
buildup that included significant controversy-ranging from allegations that the country had …

This chapter explores the extent to which Russia's hosting of the 2018 FIFA World Cup was
discursively constructed, by President Vladimir Putin and other practitioners of statecraft in …

Most analysts have asserted that Russia's recent hosting of SMEs-in particular, the 2014
Sochi Winter Olympics and the 2018 FIFA World Cup-are part of a coordinated attempt to …

This chapter addresses different dimensions of governmentality, or practices of governance,
as exemplified by two cases of sports mega-events that took place in Ukraine and Russia …

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