My new book Beyond Soccer!

As the world’s most popular game, soccer is unique in its ability to reflect and impact culture, society, and politics. Beyond Soccer: International Relations and Politics as Seen through the Beautiful Game provides students with a new and innovative way to learn about political science and international relations. It uses soccer players, officials, fans, and organizations in order to teach political science concepts—such as geopolitics, discourses, and sovereignty—and IR theories—including realism, liberalism, and feminism. This text also incorporates three common soccer discourses to highlight the possibilities of soccer as a tool for unity and social change; as a defender of established power; and as simultaneously a mechanism used by established power and an engine for social resistance.

With exercises, discussion questions, and keywords included in each chapter, Beyond Soccer is a worthwhile and accessible educational tool. Primarily written for undergraduate students of all levels, this book will be valuable in political science, international relations, cultural studies, and sociology courses. https://rowman.com/ISBN/9781442275447/Beyond-Soccer-International-Relations-and-Politics-as-Seen-through-the-Beautiful-Game

Recent Book Projects

1.     Old Right and New Right on both sides of the Atlantic (Routledge, forthcoming, 2018). An edited volume about the right studied from a comparative, transnational and historical perspectives by Tamir Bar-On and Graham Macklin, Teesside University.

2.     Borderless Fascism: Towards a Transnational and Universal Fascism in Western Europe (forthcoming, Cambridge University Press, 2018). An edited volume by Tamir Bar-On and Andrew Mammone, Royal Holloway University.

3.     Political Theory and Violence: A Reader (Routledge, forthcoming, 2018). An edited volume, by Tamir Bar-On and Kacper Przyborowski, for students consisting of what great scholars have written about violence and its various manifestations.

4.     Teaching Genocide. An edited volume, by Tamir Bar-On and Robert Harmsen, Tec de Monterrey, which aims to teach students about genocide from different disciplines and perspectives.

Articles in Peer-Reviewed Journals:

1.     “Reflections on soccer, sovereignty and the state of exception,” Soccer and Society 17 (5), pp. 1-26.

 Available at: http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/14660970.2016.1221824?scroll=top&needAccess=true&journalCode=fsas20 

2.     “Three Soccer Discourses,” Soccer and Society, 2016, pp. 1-16. Available at: http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/14660970.2016.1166764?journalCode=fsas2

Recent Articles in Peer-Reviewed Journals:

1.     “Reflections on soccer, sovereignty and the state of exception,” Soccer and Society 17 (5), pp. 1-26.

 Available at: http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/14660970.2016.1221824?scroll=top&needAccess=true&journalCode=fsas20 

2.     “Three Soccer Discourses,” Soccer and Society, 2016, pp. 1-16. Available at: http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/14660970.2016.1166764?journalCode=fsas2

New Book Project

1.     Beyond Soccer: International Relations and Politics as Seen through the Beautiful Game (Rowman and Littlefield, forthcoming, 2016/2017).

Book description: 

Soccer provides us with a space to put into practice what the Mexican philosopher Mauricio Beuchot calls analogical hermeneutics.  That is, soccer allows us to learn through analogy about politics, political science concepts, international relations (IR) theories, and the world around us. Beyond Soccer embraces the value of theoretical diversity in IR. It uses soccer in order to examine various IR theories or approaches, without privileging any one in particular.

Beyond Soccer consists of 11 chapters devoted to the relationship between soccer, politics, and IR. Furthermore, this textbook is unique because it uses soccer players, officials, fans, or individuals connected to the game in order to teach political science concepts (e.g., discourses, geopolitics, ideology, sovereignty and the state of exception, and populism, democracy, and quasi-authoritarianism) and IR theories (including realism, postcolonialism, feminism, constructivism, and critical theory/emancipatory international relations).