Sports Diplomacy has emerged as an integral part of efforts to build ever-strengthening relations between countries. Sports diplomacy uses the universal passion for sports as a way to transcend linguistic and sociocultural differences and bring people together.

1.1.    The Class will cover issues such as

o     Ping Pong Diplomacy

o     2008 Beijing Olympic Games

o     2018 Pyeongchang Olympic Games and the role of North Korea

o     North Korea and its Sports

1.2.   Required Reading

o     Rofe, J. Simon. „Sport and Diplomacy: A Global Diplomacy Framework". Diplomacy & Statecraft 27, n. 2 (2016): 212–30.

1.3.   Suggested Reading

o     Rofe, J. Simon, a Heather L. Dichter. „Prologue: Diplomacy and Sport". Diplomacy & Statecraft 27, n. 2 (2016): 207–11.