Gaining perspectives from colleagues overseas and exchanging ideas is one of the things that has not, thankfully, been negatively impacted by the present covid-19 pandemic.
Recently, I spoke about basketball and international relations with Estelle Brun of the Sport and International Relations Programme, IRIS Geostrategic Observatory on Sport. At hand was the question of how the sport’s globalization—and especially the NBA’s worldwide growth since 1984—has impacted foreign affairs, the ripple effects in the WNBA, and how #hoopsdiplomacy gains attention, whether its via Dennis Rodman-North Korea, the NBA-China “events” and beyond.
Read the interview (in English) here.
🏀🏀 Merci Estelle Brun et Carole Gomez de m’avoir donné l’occasion de parler de basket-ball 🏀🏀
