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In this paper, I argue that sportspersonship is a means of performing fundamental sociality; it is about the conversion of a foe ( inimicus ) into an enemy ( hostis ). Drawing on Carl Schmitt’s distinction between enemy and foe –  inimicus  and  hostis  – as well as his discussion of the  ius publicum Europaeum , I suggest a model of sportspersonship that sees it as expressing the competitive relations between equals that undergird the most minimal form of sociality; relations that any deeper union takes as its foundation. It is the performance of this fundamental sociality, I argue, that grounds the value of sport  in general  (though this does not mean that there cannot be other, contingent values in sport).

Carl Schmitt, sportspersonship, and the Ius Publicum Ludis