FranceAndUS: Sports and Diplomacy Hiding in Plain Sight

Sport can promote diplomacy, even between kindred democracies.

For more than a century, different types of sports diplomacy have fostered stronger relations between the United States and its oldest ally, France. 

Although the cultural endeavors of food, fashion, or film drive public consciousness of citizen interactions, the French and American sports story hides in plain sight. Today sports serve as one of the more democratic milieus in both societies, thus sports diplomacy between these two countries is an instructive example of how this prism exhibits the intersection of sport and democracy. 

Read more via “FranceAndUS: Sports and Diplomacy Hiding in Plain Sight” by Carole Ponchon and Lindsay Krasnoff in SportandDev.org