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The Cold War and the 1984 Olympic Gamesa Soviet-American surrogate war /

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	The Cold War and the 1984 Olympic Gamesby Philip D'Agati.
Reminder of title:	a Soviet-American surrogate war /
Author:	D'agati, Philip A.
Published:	New York :Palgrave Macmillan,�2013.
Description:	1 online resource (197 pages)
Subject:	Sports and stateUnited States.
Subject:	United States
Online resource:	https://link.springer.com/book/10.1057/9781137360250
ISBN:	9781137360250 (electronic bk.)

The Cold War and the 1984 Olympic Gamesa Soviet-American surrogate war /
D'agati, Philip A.

The Cold War and the 1984 Olympic Gamesa Soviet-American surrogate war /[electronic resource] :by Philip D'Agati. - First edition. - New York :Palgrave Macmillan,�2013. - 1 online resource (197 pages)

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction: Olympics, Sports, and Boycotts: Games of Politics -- Chapter 1. The Surrogate War, the Boycott, and the Search for a Hidden Story -- Chapter 2. A Primer on Politics in the Olympics -- Chapter 3. Soviet Sports History and the Olympic Movement -- Chapter 4. Montreal, Moscow, and Los Angeles: Bidding for the Games -- Chapter 5. 1980: An American Winter and a Soviet Summer -- Chapter 6. The LAOOC and Soviet Reasons for Not Attending -- Chapter 7. Socialist Inconsistencies and the Security Issue -- Chapter 8. Conclusions on Surrogate Wars, Nested Games, and Soviet Sports Policy.

The Soviet boycott of the 1984 Olympic Games is explained as the result of a complex series of events and policies that culminated in a strategic decision to not participate in Los Angeles. Using IR framework, D'Agati developes and argues for the concept of surrogate wars as an alternative means for conflict between states.

ISBN: 9781137360250 (electronic bk.)Subjects--Meeting Names:

194767

Amsterdam, Netherlands)1998 :(3rd :Subjects--Topical Terms:

252156
Sports and state
--United States.Subjects--Geographical Terms:

236377
United States
Index Terms--Genre/Form:

214472
Electronic books.

LC Class. No.: GV706.35 / .D34 2013

Dewey Class. No.: 796.48

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