| Soft power and soft disempowerment: Qatar, global sport and football’s 2022 World Cup finals PM Brannagan, R Giulianotti Leisure studies 34 (6), 703-719, 2015 | 371 | 2015 |
| The impact of Covid-19 on sport J Grix, PM Brannagan, H Grimes, R Neville International journal of sport policy and politics 13 (1), 1-12, 2021 | 197 | 2021 |
| Interrogating states’ soft power strategies: A case study of sports mega-events in Brazil and the UK J Grix, PM Brannagan, B Houlihan Challenges to Emerging and Established Powers: Brazil, the United Kingdom …, 2017 | 178 | 2017 |
| Of mechanisms and myths: Conceptualising states’“soft power” strategies through sports mega-events J Grix, PM Brannagan Diplomacy & statecraft 27 (2), 251-272, 2016 | 175 | 2016 |
| The soft power–soft disempowerment nexus: the case of Qatar PM Brannagan, R Giulianotti International Affairs 94 (5), 1139-1157, 2018 | 166 | 2018 |
| State strategies for leveraging sports mega-events: Unpacking the concept of ‘legacy’ J Grix, PM Brannagan, H Wood, C Wynne International journal of sport policy and politics 9 (2), 203-218, 2017 | 128 | 2017 |
| Sports mega-events, soft power and soft disempowerment: international supporters’ perspectives on Qatar’s acquisition of the 2022 FIFA World Cup finals PM Brannagan, J Rookwood International journal of sport policy and politics 8 (2), 173-188, 2016 | 111 | 2016 |
| Qatar, global sport and the 2022 FIFA world cup PM Brannagan, R Giulianotti Leveraging Legacies from Sports Mega-Events: Concepts and Cases, 154-165, 2014 | 64 | 2014 |
| Esports governance: Exploring stakeholder dynamics Q Peng, G Dickson, N Scelles, J Grix, PM Brannagan Sustainability 12 (19), 8270, 2020 | 63 | 2020 |
| Entering the Global Arena: Emerging States and Sports Mega-Events J Grix, PM Brannagan, D Lee Palgrave: Basingstoke, 2019 | 63* | 2019 |
| International prestige through ‘sporting success’: an evaluation of the evidence J Haut, J Grix, PM Brannagan, I Hilvoorde European journal for sport and society 14 (4), 311-326, 2017 | 56 | 2017 |
| The 2021 European Super League attempt: Motivation, outcome, and the future of football PM Brannagan, N Scelles, M Valenti, Y Inoue, J Grix, SJ Perkin International Journal of Sport Policy and Politics 14 (1), 169-176, 2022 | 43 | 2022 |
| Qatar and the 2022 FIFA World Cup: Politics, controversy, change PM Brannagan, D Reiche Springer Nature, 2022 | 36 | 2022 |
| Qatar’s global sports strategy: Soft power and the 2022 World Cup J Grix, PM Brannagan, D Lee, J Grix, PM Brannagan, D Lee Entering the global arena: Emerging states, soft power strategies and sports …, 2019 | 14 | 2019 |
| Qatar’s soft power gamble: The FIFA World Cup 2022 PM Brannagan, J Grix E-International Relations, 2014 | 13 | 2014 |
| Sports mega-events and the concept of soft power J Grix, PM Brannagan, D Lee, J Grix, PM Brannagan, D Lee Entering the global arena: Emerging states, soft power strategies and sports …, 2019 | 12 | 2019 |
| Mass social change and identity hybridization: the case of Qatar and the 2022 FIFA World Cup PM Brannagan, D Reiche, L Bedwell Identities 30 (6), 900-918, 2023 | 10 | 2023 |
| The state of Qatar and global sport: a case study of globalization, the nation-state and soft power PM Brannagan Loughborough University, 2017 | 9 | 2017 |
| Russia’s unique soft power strategy J Grix, PM Brannagan, D Lee, J Grix, PM Brannagan, D Lee Entering the global arena: Emerging states, soft power strategies and sports …, 2019 | 7 | 2019 |
| Nation-state strategies for human capital development: the case of sports mega-events in Qatar PM Brannagan, J Grix Third World Quarterly 44 (8), 1807-1824, 2023 | 6 | 2023 |
Jonathan GrixProfessor of Sport Politics and Policy, Manchester Metropolitan UniversityVerified email at mmu.ac.uk
