On Sport and Diplomacy: On the Occasion of the 2018 FIFA World Cup

... hours of live international coverage, including 456 hours of news; the Games were broadcast to 159 countries; a huge flow of the Sochi Olympics data travelled online, with the number of internet queries about the Olympics doubling the population of the Earth ... ... dispute between the hardliners and their opponents continues. Sport at the Service of Diplomacy Governments are eager to use sport diplomacy to better achieve their foreign policy goals. Take for instance the very effective “ping-pong diplomacy” that ...