The modern Olympic movement : the confluence of realism and idealism

To paraphrase Clausewitz, the modern Olympic Games have often been politics and war by other means. The Olympics have been both a barometer of and an arena for international politics, in spite of the fact that they were revived specifically not to be held hostage to the politics of the day. This the...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Gilmore, Charles A.
Other Authors: Frank M. Teti.
Language:en_US
Published: Monterey, California: Naval Postgraduate School 2012
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/10945/13507