International Sports - Integration or Disintegration between Movement and Institution
Peter Herrmann

currently Human Rights Centre, School of Law, Central South University, Changsha, PRC

Abstract

Sports carries by its very definition the contradiction between fierce competition and peaceful harmony with it. And equally it is caught in the tension between social movement and institution. While this is a permanent and possibly irresolvable tensional field, the presentation aims on reflecting nationalism and its transcendence. - The focus of the reflections is given by taking a perspective from the philosophy of Human Rights Law and ventilating different conceptualisations of nation (states).

Keywords: Sports, Human Right Law, Nationalism

Topic: Sport, international relations, and diplomacy