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Tom 22 (2017)

Dyplomacja sportowa w procesie łagodzenia konfliktów międzynarodowych

Michał Marcin Kobierecki

Strony: 201 - 214

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Sports diplomacy as a tool of easing international tensions


The aim of the article is to theoretically analyse the issue of sports diplomacy from the perspective of its util­ity in easing international tensions. The research encompass clarification of the term sports diplomacy and investigation of two ways of using it in order to ease international tensions: changing perception of hostile states within particular societies and creating opportunities for political leaders from antagonistic countries to meet, which have been described with the use of actual historical cases.