EASM 2012 announces Mark Pieth, head of FIFA's Independent Governance Committee, as a keynote speaker at the conference in Aalborg, Denmark at 18-21 September.

New research project funded by the European Commission seeks to investigate football’s impact on identity dynamics and cultural change in Europe.

In a presentation given at the Crime and Sport Research Conference in Canberra, Australia on 23 March, Sport and Anti-doping Consultant Catherine Ordway discusses the threat of corruption in sport.

Brazil's Senate is still against adopting a special law regarding the World Cup. In particular, the FIFA requirements for beer sales at World Cup stadiums, which go against previous FIFA guidelines, are encountering resistance.

Qatar’s increasing engagement in European soccer and international sport is just one leg in the small Gulf State’s high-risk attempts to position itself as a global player ‘on the right side of history’. But the accompanying social and political changes also spark local opposition in a conservative culture, James M. Dorsey writes in his second analysis on the Gulf State’s growing influence in international sport.