International diplomacy and the Olympic Movement – the new mediators

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Notes

^1. Lord Sebastian Coe, Closing Ceremony, 9 September 2012. http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/disability-sport/19539113. Accessed April 23, 2013.

^2. I have begun teaching a Masters course ‘Sport and Diplomacy: More than a Game’, and have recently co-edited a special edition of Sport in Society on Sport and Diplomacy, vol. 17, no. 9, 2014.

^3. Scholarship in this field is thriving: prominent is the work of Nick Cull, Craig Hayden, James Pamment, and Jan Melissen. For those unfamiliar with the field a good starting place is Cull's University of Southern California Perspective paper: Public Diplomacy – Lessons from the Past. http://uscpublicdiplomacy.org/sites/uscpublicdiplomacy.org/files/legacy/publications/perspectives/CPDPerspectivesLessons.pdf. Accessed January 21, 2014.

^4. This author has made one, small, contribution by looking at the role of Manchester United Football Club as a non-state actor (Rofe 2014).