Theory and ir theories in brief -- Realism, liberalism and Marxism -- Constructing identities : straddling the local, national and global -- Learning about postcolonialism through soccer -- "You just don't understand!" : a feminist reading of the "beautiful game" -- FIFA, emancipatory IR theory and a critique of realism -- Three competing soccer discourses -- The geopolitics of soccer -- Soccer, sovereignty and the state of exception.
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