Paul Corthorn

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Paul Corthorn is Lecturer in Modern British History at Queen’s University Belfast. He is author of In the Shadow of the Dictators: the British Left in the 1930s (2006; paperback, 2013) and joint editor of the Labour History Review. This article draws on ‘The Cold War and British debates over the boycott of the 1980 Moscow Olympics’,Cold War History 13, 1 (2013), 43-66.

Governments and ‘soft power’ in international affairs: Britain and the boycott of the 1980 Moscow Olympics

A look back ahead of the World Athletic Championships 2013, hosted by Moscow, to that of the 1980 Moscow Olympics when Britain tried and failed to boycott the competition. Why and how did we fail to complete this soft power?

By Paul Corthorn

/ 6 Aug 2013