<p>This edited volume introduces readers to the relationship between higher education and transnational politics. It shows how higher education is a significant arena for regional and international transformation as well as domestic political struggle replete with unequal power relations.</p><p></p><p>This volume shows: </p><p></p><ul> <p/><li>The causes and impacts of recent transformations in higher education within a transnational context;</li> <p/><li>Emerging similarities in objectives institutional set-ups and approaches taking place within higher education institutions across different world regions; </li> <p/><li>The asymmetrical relations between various kinds of institutional commercial and state actors across borders;</li> <p/><li>The extent to which historical and colonial legacies are important in the transformation of higher education;</li> <p/><li>The potential effects these developments have on the current structure of international political order.</li> </ul><p></p><p>Drawing on case studies from across the Middle East Asia Africa Latin America and Europe the contributors develop diverse perspectives explaining the impact of transnational politics on higher education--and higher education on transitional politics--across time and locality. This book is among the first multi-disciplinary effort to wrestle with the question of how we can understand the political role of higher education and the political force universities exert in the realm of international relations.</p>
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