SUNY Global Center
10/14/2026
1:00 pm - 2:00 pm
The New Arena of Diplomacy: Sport, Geopolitics, Narrative, and the FIFA World
Dr. Lindsay Krasnoff
Clinical Assistant Professor at New York University’s Tisch Institute for Global Sport
Director of the FranceAndUS
Wednesday, October 14th, 2026
1:00- 2:00pm
About the Topic
In the twenty-first century, international sport has become a powerful arena of diplomacy, bringing together nations that have had limited or difficult political dialogue in other settings. Major sporting events create opportunities for governments, athletes and citizens to engage across cultural and political divides, promoting mutual understanding, national pride and, hopefully, create new avenues to international co-operation.
About the Speaker
Dr. Lindsay Sarah Krasnoff is a globally recognized sports diplomacy expert and
consultant whose work as a scholar-practitioner of basketball diplomacy and Franco-American sports diplomacy pioneered the field.
Author of;
Basketball Empire: France and the Making of a Global NBA and WNBA (Bloomsbury, 2023),
Views From the
Embassy: The Role of the U.S. Diplomatic Community in France, 1914, (U.S. Department of State, 2014),
and The Making of Les Bleus: Sport in France, 1958-2010 (Lexington Books, 2013),
Krasnoff directs the France and U.S. project and has written for national and international media, including TIME, CNN International, The Athletic, The Washington Post, The New Yorker. She is a Clinical Assistant Professor at New York University’s Tisch Institute for Global Sport, leading the institute’s new sports
diplomacy track. A veteran of the U.S. Department of State’s Office of the Historian, Professor Krasnoff holds a B.A. from George Washington University; M.A. from NYU; Ph.D. in History from The Graduate Center, City University of New York.
