Abstract

With an increasing amount of diplomatic archival material being declassified, scholars are now finding not only more instances of governments, and especially diplomats, involved in sport matters, but also different ways in which sport and politics have been intertwined historically. The past two decades have thus seen what can be called a diplomatic turn in sport history. This type of research has led to the development of a new strand of sport and politics research encompassing the diplomatic use of sport, through sport diplomacy and sport-as-diplomacy. Through mutual coordination, sporting representatives and government diplomats shared valuable information with each other so that sport could serve diplomatic ends, and for diplomats to support sporting endeavours. While the relationships between government members and sport organizations have traditionally been considered in terms of national sport politics, their reach goes far beyond a domestic audience, as demonstrated by several examples during the Cold War, often involving Germany. Bringing together files from sport organizations and their representatives with foreign ministry and government records provides new insight into not only international sport and diplomacy during the decades of the Cold War but also how their practitioners engaged with and influenced one another.

摘要

随着越来越多的外交档案材料被解密，学者们现在不仅发现更多的政府，尤其是外交官参与体育事务的例子，而且体育和政治在历史上以不同的方式交织在一起。因此，过去二十年见证了体育史上所谓的外交转向。这种类型的研究导致了一种新的体育和政治研究的发展，包括体育外交和体育外交。通过相互协调，体育代表和政府外交官相互分享有价值的信息，使体育服务于外交目的，也让外交官支持体育事业。虽然政府成员和体育组织之间的关系历来被视为国家体育政治，但它们的影响远远超出了国内观众，冷战期间的几个例子证明了这一点，通常涉及德国。将体育组织及其代表的文件与外交部和政府记录结合在一起，不仅可以让我们对冷战几十年间的国际体育和外交，以及它们的从业者如何相互交往和相互影响提供新的见解。