Hungary as a Sport Superpower by Venuti, Lorenzo;

Short description:

The RERIS Studies in International Sport Relations series publishes books that explore interconnectivity between several actors (people, organizations, and/or states) at the international level. It aims to showcase works (individual or collective) that use sources from a variety of different languages and topics that challenge Euro-American centrism and assumptions about gender in global sport.

Long description:

What role has football (and sport in general) played in Hungarian foreign policy? Was there a continuity between the inter-war period and communism? Are foreign politics and sporting diplomacy synonyms? This book tries to provide answers to these questions through a careful examination of documents of the Hungarian Foreign Ministry and Hungarian newspapers, supplemented by documentation from several European countries. Through Hungarian football, the author traces a history of Hungary during the Age of Extremes with a special focus on the period during which sport played a particular role in Hungarian foreign policy: from 1924, the date of the Paris Olympics, the first time the country competed after World War I, to 1960, date of the Olympics of Rome. The result is a study from a particularly original perspective, highlighting, first and foremost, the transnational dimension of Hungarian football.

Winner of the Susan Glantz Book Prize of the Hungarian Studies Association

The RERIS Studies in International Sport Relations series publishes books that explore interconnectivity between international-level actors (people, organizations, and/or states), as well as transnational and global histories of sport. An important focus is on international sport organizations and their leaders, a topic that still remains - with the exception, perhaps, of the International Olympic Committee (IOC) - underexplored in much of the existing scholarship. The series also gives special attention to work that helps address continuing diversity issues in both the scholarship and the field more broadly.

RERIS (Réseau d’études des relations internationales sportives) was created in 2015 to provide a platform for the increasing scholarly interest in questions around the place of sport and physical education in international relations in the twentieth century to the present. The network holds annual events and regular webinars.

We strongly encourage work about and submissions from underrepresented groups, including but not limited to women, people of color, and the Global South. Research and studies in sport history by young scholars and in other languages has also increased in recent years. Another goal of this series is thus to publish books stemming from PhD theses, including translations of those not originally written in English.

All manuscripts will be peer-reviewed by members of the advisory board, scientific committee, or external experts. Interested authors are encouraged to submit a short proposal in English to the publisher (Julia.Brauch@degruyter.com) or to Philippe Vonnard (philippe.vonnard@unil.ch) and Amanda Shuman (amanda.shuman@gmail.com).

Editors

Philippe Vonnard, Université de Lausanne, Switzerland

Amanda Shuman, Universität Freiburg, Germany

Advisory Board

Georgia Cervin, The University of Western Australia

Sylvain Dufraisse, University of Nantes, France

Brenda Elsey, Hofstra University, New York, USA

Nicola Sbetti, University of Bologna, Italy

Scientific Committee

Axel Elias, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México

Daphné Bolz, University of Rouen, France

Y. Andrew Hao, University of Minnesota, Morris, USA

Tarminder Kaur, University of Johannesburg, South Africa

George Kioussis, California State University, Northridge, USA

Lindsay Sarah Krasnoff, Preston Robert Tisch Institute for Global Sport, New York University, USA

Jörg Krieger, University of Aarhus, Denmark

Juliane Lanz, University of Rostock, Germany

Livia Goncalves Magalhaes, Universidade Federal Fluminense, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

Claire Nicolas, SOAS - London, UK

Grégory Quin, University of Lausanne, Switzerland

Juan Antonio Simón Sanjurjo, Universidad Europea de Madrid, Spain