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The authors describe, analyze and evaluate sport related globalization processes with a focus on transnationalism, colonialism, imperialism, and, more generally, geopolitical developments. They provide a variety of theoretical frameworks as they explore the emergence of modern sport and its dissemination around the world. In spite of resistance by the adherents of gymnastics or traditional movement cultures, sport with its focus on competition and records became popular all over the world. Both Great Britain and the United States induced their political and cultural hegemony via the soft power of modern sport which caused reactions, e.g. resistances or adaptations of indigenous, colonized, and other affected populations.
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This article provides an explanation of the role of sport as a mechanism of soft power in the political process.
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This page is a summary of: Sport and globalization: power games and a New World order, Movement & Sport Sciences - Science & Motricité, September 2013, EDP Sciences,
DOI: 10.1051/sm/2013062.
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