The Palgrave International Handbook of Football and Politics

Jean-Michel De Waele is Professor of Political Science at the Université libre de Bruxelles, Belgium. His areas of expertise include Central and Eastern European politics, social-democracy, as well as the relations between sport and politics.

Suzan Gibril is F.R.S-F.N.R.S Fellow at the Université libre de Bruxelles, Belgium. Her fields of expertise include contentious politics in the Middle East and the relations between sport and politics in the region.

Ekaterina Gloriozova is F.R.S-F.N.R.S Fellow at the Université libre de Bruxelles, Belgium. Her research interests are the relations between sport and politics in post-Soviet and contemporary Russia.

Ramón Spaaij is Associate Professor and Research Program Leader (Sport in Society) at Victoria University, Melbourne, Australia. His overarching research interests centre on questions of social cohesion, conflict and social change in sport and violent extremism.