Using the World Cup to Think About World Politics
Posted by Heather Hurlburt
To distract myself from the actual play, not to mention my gainful employment and willful toddler, I've compiled the following (with a bow for inspiration, and later a bow for content, to the very fun volume The Thinking Fan's Guide to the World Cup:
Five Lessons in GeoPolitics the World Cup 2006 Can Teach Us
1. Iraqis can't watch the Cup, and this isn't good. NPR's solid reporting lays out, in a very empirical way, the things that have gone wrong with reconstruction and how they affect the average soccer-mad Iraqi -- no decent tv coverage, people can't afford satellite tv or generators or fuel -- or the wait in lines for fuel. TVs cut out in cafes. Generators break. Curfews and insecurity prevent travel. And this in what should be a wealthy oil-producing nation. NPR further points out that fixing some of these things before the Cup, and explicitly for the Cup, would've been quite a PR gesture. But oh well. (See also number 5 below)
2. Stadium Boondoggles Are a Universal Language. Proving that the "cabinet in exile" has a sense of humor, the good people at the Center for American Progress have done a paper looking at the value of hosting a World Cup, or lack thereof, to the nation's economy. Fear not, Ms. Merkel. It should pick up next year.
3. How Do We Rate? No, not Team USA. The Thinking Fan's Guide has a great section of statistical comparisons of the 32 nations competing. USA "wins" in several categories: GDP, land area and population, but also televisions per capita, executions, and prisoners per capita. Quick, which entrant has the most tractors per capita? the highest military expenditure per capita? the highest population growth rate? (the last at least perhaps a signal of future success?) Click through below to find out.
4. Is there a "Two Nations With McDonalds Don't Fight Each Other" Rule for the World Cup? New Republic editor Franklin Foer explores what system of government it takes to win the Cup. Since his publisher has thoughtlessly not put this gem on-line for me to exploit, let me summarize: Communism will get you into the tournament but not through the final. Fascism ain't what it used to be. Nobody has won the Cup while commiting genocide or preparing to do so. Being an oil-producing nation or in the throes of neo-liberal economic reforms is also a killer. (Does either of these explain the US performance, I wonder?) Other things being equal, colonizers defeat the formerly-colonized. Military dictatorship is a good way to go, but produces lemons as well as champions -- your best bet is social democracy, apparently.
5. I was going to write here that, whatever you said about the US performance today, they couldn't be accused of over-aggressiveness a la our current Administration. But then I read the following on ESPN's World Cup blog:
Arena looked crushed in the postmatch conference. Said the right things. But one always senses that his hardest job has been convincing a highly confident team that they're not as good as they think they are, while also protecting them from situations that would expose their weaknesses.
Hmmm.
Check out quiz answers below.
Most tractors per capita: Serbia and Montenegro
Highest military spending per capita: Angola
Highest population growth rate: Paraguay
Rooney ask Beckham: elder brother, when York graceful association I have not come, he really has that fiercely? Backham: Certainly, if you go on stage ,certainly gaze at him.
Come on England!!!!Tonight!!
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Posted by: Dr han | June 15, 2006 at 07:22 AM
Hi, I like Heather's geo-pol approach to the World Cup-- I was thinking the same thing as I watched England struggle to get past Trinidad & Tobago, its Rhode Island-sized former colony...
Watch Ecuador, it could suprise you!
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