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The Hard Edge of Soft Power = Mega-Events, Geopolitics, and Making Nations Great Again

This open access book explores the linkages between geopolitics and hosting mega-events. It encompasses and transcends the international and domestic dimensions of soft power to unpack how mega-events shape cities and societies through notions of unity and greatness, but also investigates local developments beneath the Potemkin surface of the global spectacle. Drawing on a global range of case studies from Eastern Europe, Western Europe, North America, South America, Africa, the Middle East, Asia, and Australia, this volume features the sensitivity of grounded local research framed within geopolitical perspectives. Together, they present an international and transdisciplinary understanding of the local and global political implications of hosting mega-events. The volume reveals what hides under the mega-event spectacle: problems that­ – regardless of national context – most often occur to the detriment of host populations.

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: Springer Nature Singapore., 2025

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XVI, 153 hlm; ill., lamp.,

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English

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9789819635146

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text

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computer

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online resource

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International relations
Human Geography
Public Policy
Sport Science
Urban Studies/Sociology
Sociology of Sport and Leisure

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This book is open access, which means that you have free and unlimited access Provides a global exploration of the local impacts of mega-event soft power projects Puts nuanced local research in comparative perspective with other host city case studies around the world Relevant to academics, media professionals, municipal administrators, host city residents, and activist

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Sven Daniel Wolfe

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https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-981-96-3515-3

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https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-96-3515-3

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