UP231 A Guide to Sportswashing

The obvious context to today’s conversation are the terrible events happening in Ukraine, which has brought in to sharp focus sport’s role in the political landscape that surround them, in particular the role of governing bodies and the supply chain of professional enablers that are part and parcel of sportswashing and the soft power strategies beloved by autocratic regimes. My guests are two experts in the relationship between business and geopolitics. Robert Barrington served as Execu...