AN OVERVIEW OF SPORT WITHIN INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS (IR)

BEGOVIĆ Marko (Advisor for International Relations and High Performance Sport, Directorate for Youth and Sports, Montenegro), marko.begovic@ums.gov.me

Countries/governments tend to use sport to promote their political, social and economic agendas. Decision-makers looked for ways to shift legitimacy from the sport ground because sport results could be easily measured and transmitted to the general population, especially considering that sport is positioned between politics and international relations on the one hand and politics and culture on the other. For domestic policy strategy analysts, the work should serve as a supplement to the future policy documents with attempt to trigger for adequate positioning of the sport in the prism of overall country’s development. It is an attempt to realistically as possible discloses position of sport within IR with an example from the socialist Yugoslavia.

Keywords: IR, sports, politics, ideology, globalization