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Article: A red card for England?(Peter J. Beck on football's influence on British relations with Germany, International Affairs, March 2003)
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- Foreign Policy
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- July 1, 2003
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* International Affairs, Vol. 79, No. 2, March 2003, Cambridge
The excitement and anticipation that fills a European football stadium before a match is hard to beat: the chanting, the songs, the fans clad in their ream's colored scarf. But, I confess, I was almost as excited to read Kingston University professor Peter J. Beck's article on football's influence on British relations with Germany, published in a recent issue of International Affairs, a premier publication in global politics.
As a football connoisseur since my childhood in Romania and a frequent visitor to World Cup tournaments--my first experience at this unique global event was the ...