Stadium Construction: A Political Barometer
Category: SPORTS
Politics is never divorced from sports, not even when it comes to the construction of stadia. Budgets however have recently thwarted plans in Turkey and Saudi Arabia to build a host of sporting facilities in a bid to either win votes or curry favour with youth and other segments of the population.
By James Dorsey, ContributorSenior fellow, S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies, 2015-06-13