sport-et-relations-internationales Analyses

Globalised Sport: The Challenges of Governance

Organiser la diplomatie sportive française de Tokyo 2020 à Paris 2024

Entretien avec Philippe Setton, Ambassadeur de France au Japon. Réalisé par Estelle Brun, chargée de recherche à l'IRIS

02.04.2021

Globalised Sport: The Challenges of Governance

by Estelle E. Brun, Research Associate at IRIS

02.04.2021

Par Estelle E. Brun

In March 2021, the Institute of International ad Strategic Affairs (IRIS) published a report entitled “Sport mondialisé : les défis de la gouvernance”, co-authored with Carole Gomez and Pascal Boniface. The article below is an English translation of the paper’s executive summary. Since the end of the 20th century, globalised...

02.04.2021

« L’appel au boycott du Mondial 2022, le reflet du mépris qu’ont certains pour le sport »

Interview de Pascal Boniface - Le Figaro

29.03.2021

Coupe du monde 2022 : « Un boycott n’est pas envisageable »

Interview de Carole Gomez - France info Sport

Est-ce que ces actions sont utiles ? « Je considère qu’elles sont relativement efficaces puisque cela permet d’attirer l’attention sur la situation. Il y avait eu des enquêtes publiées il y a quelques années sur la situation des droits humains et notamment des droits des salariés sur les chantiers au Qatar...

26.03.2021

Soft Power Songs: PSG, Rap and the State of Qatar

Soft Power Songs: PSG, Rap and the State of Qatar

By Professor Simon Chadwick, Professor and Director of Eurasian Sport at EMlyon, and Dr Paul Widdop, Associate Professor of Sport at Manchester Metropolitan University

26.03.2021

By Professor Simon Chadwick, Professor and Director of Eurasian Sport at EMlyon, and Dr Paul Widdop, Associate Professor of Sport at Manchester Metropolitan University

The last time Glastonbury took place, in pre-pandemic 2019, a highlight of the music festival was the appearance of British rapper Dave on the ‘Other Stage’. During his performance, he beckoned a fifteen-year old onto the stage to join him in a rendition of what remains Dave’s best-known track –...

25.03.2021

Pour la Fifa, le sport n’est pas politique

Interview de Carole Gomez - Le Soir (Belgique)

24.03.2021

« L’appel au boycott est peu coûteux, la réalité beaucoup plus difficile »

Sport mondialisé : les défis de la gouvernance

Par Pascal Boniface, Estelle E. Brun, Carole Gomez

23.03.2021

Interview de Carole Gomez - Caviar Magazine

Dans une étude publiée le 23 février, The Guardian fait état de 6500 travailleurs immigrés morts sur les chantiers de la Coupe du monde. Le Qatar semble pourtant minimiser ces chiffres, quel bilan peut-on en tirer du point de vue du non-respect des droits de l’homme ? Il y a...

19.03.2021

Qatar and the FIFA World Cup 2022: Why is the event controversial?

Qatar and the FIFA World Cup 2022: Why is the event controversial?

Interview with Danyel Reiche, Visiting Associate Professor at Georgetown University Qatar, led by Professor Simon Chadwick from emlyon business school

19.03.2021

Interview with Danyel Reiche, Visiting Associate Professor at Georgetown University Qatar, led by Professor Simon Chadwick from emlyon business school

15.03.2021

Crunch, un contentieux séculaire

Dubai Tennis Championships: Where Sports & Politics Collide

A Baseline Media video in partnership with GeoSport. Tennis in Dubai has risen almost as quickly as the skyscrapers that characterise this city state. Indeed, the sport has become inevitably and inextricably linked with business, politics and socio-cultural developments. Yet some question the motives underpinning Dubai's investment in sport and what this means for tennis. In this film, Simon Chadwick examines who and what is being served-up by the world's biggest racquet sport.

12.03.2021

Interview de Carole Gomez - Alors, on pense !, France info TV

12.03.2021

Sport-Tech Diplomacy: The Case of Israel

Passing on the Torch: Grassroots Opposition to Olympic Bids through the case of No Boston Olympics 2021

Interview with Chris Dempsey, co-Founder of No Boston Olympics, co-Author of No Boston Olympics: How and Why Smart Cities Are Passing on the Torch. Conducted by Estelle Brun, Research Associate at IRIS

12.03.2021

Passing on the Torch: Grassroots Opposition to Olympic Bids through the case of No Boston Olympics 2021

05.03.2021

Sport-Tech Diplomacy: The Case of Israel

By Dr. Yoav Dubinsky, Instructor of Sports Business in the Lundquist College of Business at the University of Oregon

05.03.2021

By Dr. Yoav Dubinsky, Instructor of Sports Business in the Lundquist College of Business at the University of Oregon

Since the 1967 Six Days War, in which Israel tripled its size including occupying the West Bank and Gaza Strip, the image of the country has significantly deteriorated. After Israel’s independence in 1948, the country enjoyed a positive reputation of being framed as “David” – an unlikely story of a...

02.03.2021

As Cold as Ice: about the Relationship between Sport, Human Rights and Economic Considerations in Belarus

By Anton Klischewski, founder of the Project PRESFUL, Sports & Sustainability Consultant for the initiative ‘Sport Trades Fair’ and the Berlin-based football club ‘FC Internationale 1980’

A hat trick in ice hockey, when a player scores three goals in a single game, culminates in the National Hockey League with fans throwing hats onto the ice from the stands. Another sort of hat trick occurred between 15 and 17 January 2021 and included the following sponsors...

02.03.2021

« Les prises de position politiques et médiatiques sur l’avenir se sont concentrées sur le sport masculin »

As Cold as Ice: about the Relationship between Sport, Human Rights and Economic Considerations in Belarus

By Anton Klischewski, founder of the Project PRESFUL, Sports & Sustainability Consultant for the initiative ‘Sport Trades Fair’ and the Berlin-based football club ‘FC Internationale 1980’

26.02.2021

Par Carole Gomez, Cyrille Rougier - Le Monde

La décennie 2010 a marqué un tournant majeur dans le développement du sport au féminin. Mais alors que le développement de la féminisation repose sur la pratique sportive et sur sa médiatisation, le sport au féminin s’est trouvé, depuis un an, lourdement affecté par le contexte de la pandémie. Privées...

26.02.2021

China’s Championing of Football makes State led U-Turn for home

By Prof. Simon Chadwick, Professor and Director of Eurasian Sport at EMlyon

When Argentinian player Carlos Tevez signed for Chinese Super League club Shanghai Shenhua at the end of 2016, it marked perhaps the most significant episode in what, at the time, seemed to be a booming market for football. Tevez’s salary (reportedly worth upwards of euro €670,000 per week) has become...

26.02.2021

Korean esports ecosystem and its practical implications from a geopolitical framework

China’s Championing of Football makes State led U-Turn for home

By Prof. Simon Chadwick, Professor and Director of Eurasian Sport at EMlyon

24.02.2021

By Dr. Seungbum Lee, Professor in the Department of Management of the College of Business Administration at the University of Akron, Fellow for the China Soccer Observatory (CSO) of Asia Research Institute at University of Nottingham

While not pigeonholing a scientific definition, the term of geopolitics has not been unfamiliar to Koreans. This is due to South Korea’s geographic location with neighbouring China, Japan, Russia, North Korea, and the decades of a close economic, political, and military relationship with the United States within the Korean peninsula....

24.02.2021

The Olympic Games during Covid-19: What is at stake for Toyko?

Korean esports ecosystem and its practical implications from a geopolitical framework

19.02.2021

Interview with Jules Boykoff, author of four books on the Olympic Games, conducted by Estelle E. Brun, research associate at IRIS

Interview with Jules Boykoff, author of four books on the Olympic Games, most recently NOlympians: Inside the Fight Against Capitalist Mega-Sports in Los Angeles, Tokyo, and Beyond (Fernwood 2020) and Power Games: A Political History of the Olympics (Verso 2016). His work has appeared in academic journals like the International Review for the Sociology of...

19.02.2021