By Holger Preuss, Karsten Liese
The assumption of "Internationalism" has manifested itself not just within the intercultural discussion in the Olympic flow, but in addition on the Olympic video games because the sportive, cultural, and media height of the four-year-circle. The authors learn and talk about Internationalism from diverse expert views, opposed to assorted cultural backgrounds, in addition to with regards to diversified reference teams to widen the certainty of internationalism as a social interplay within the Olympic circulate. additionally they target at constructing the intersections and equivalent normative rules of "Internationalism" in the diversified cultural and institutional fields. those universal grounds should be necessary for the sensible implementation and recognition of "Internationalism" via Olympic activities and at Olympic adolescence Camps.
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Today the idea of Internationalism had been manifested in the intercultural dialogue within the Olympic movement and not only at the Olympic Games as the sportive, cultural and media peak of the four-yearcircle. The aspect of Internationalism plays an important role also in many national and international Olympic programs as well as institutionalized in the International Olympic Academy (IOA), where there is a continuous cultural dialogue of more than 100 nations organized in different sessions.
Landry, M. and Yerles, M. 31-44, Quebec: Laval University Press. Olympic Sport and Internationalism 'ebates in the Arab-Muslim World Between 'Modernity' and 'Authenticity', ‘Globalisation’ and ‘Localisation’ Mahfoud Amara 1 Introduction The aim of the chapter is to illustrate elements of internationalism and regionalism trough sport in the Arab world. Firstly, in relation to internationalism debate, in the aftermath of independence, the appropriation of the dominant model of sport by newly independent countries was seen as inevitable, taking into account the multiple uses of sport as an element for political, social and cultural recognition.