International Security and the Olympic Games, 1972-2020 Hardback
by Austin Duckworth
Part of the Palgrave Studies in Sport and Politics series
Hardback
Description
Drawing on new archival documents and interviews, this book demonstrates the evolving role of international politics in Olympic security planning.
Olympic security concerns changed forever following the terrorist attack on Israeli athletes at the 1972 Munich Olympic Games.
The International Olympic Committee’s (IOC) choice to ignore security after the attack in Munich left individual Olympic Games Organizing Committees to organize, fund, and provide security for the major international event.
Future Olympic hosts planned security amidst increasing numbers of international terrorist attacks, and with the Cold War in full swing.
For some Olympic hosts, Olympic security now represented their nation’s largest ever military operations.
By the time the IOC made security more of a priority in the early 1980s, the trends in Olympic security were set for the future.
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Out of stock
- Format:Hardback
- Pages:206 pages, 1 Illustrations, black and white; XVI, 206 p. 1 illus.
- Publisher:Springer International Publishing AG
- Publication Date:25/08/2022
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- ISBN:9783031051326
Information
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Out of stock
- Format:Hardback
- Pages:206 pages, 1 Illustrations, black and white; XVI, 206 p. 1 illus.
- Publisher:Springer International Publishing AG
- Publication Date:25/08/2022
- Category:
- ISBN:9783031051326
