Security and Uncertainty in Global Sports Events: The Case of the Olympic Games

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Abstract

This paper is a part of a larger project, the aim of which is to understand in historic terms the dynamic relationship between security and uncertainty in global planned events, using the Olympic Games as a case study. More specifically, this is an effort to begin to systematically build a theory of security through surveillance in the Olympics through close and on-going analysis of empirical evidence, taking the complexity of the event into account empirically and theoretically.

Author

• Vida Bajc, Flagler College