Sports mega-events and changing world order
Journal: International Journal Canada s Journal of Global Policy Analysis
Year: 2022

Processes of making, sustaining, reforming, and un-making world orders are constants in global politics and development. Understood in the neo-Gramscian tradition pioneered by Robert Cox, ideas, institutions, and material capabilities combine to shape the range of possibilities for more and less stable orders. Sports mega-events (SMEs)-most prominently, the Olympic Games-have played an underappreciated role in this process. This paper examines the ways in which the Olympics manifested and suppor