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Global exchanges
Exchanges between different cultures and institutions of learning have taken place for centuries, but it was only in the twentieth century that such efforts evolved into formal programs that received focused attention from nation-states, empires and international organizations. Global Exchanges provides a wide-ranging overview of this underresearched topic, examining the scope, scale and evolution of organized exchanges around the globe through the twentieth century. In doing so it dramatically reveals the true extent of organized exchange and its essential contribution for knowledge transfer, cultural interchange, and the formation of global networks so often taken for granted today.
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Losing Hearts and Minds
Matthew K. Shannon provides readers with a reminder of a brief and congenial phase of the relationship between the United States and Iran. InLosing Hearts and Minds, Shannon tells the story of an influx of Iranian students to American college campuses between 1950 and 1979 that globalized U.S. institutions of higher education and produced alliances between Iranian youths and progressive Americans.
Losing Hearts and Mindsis a narrative rife with historical ironies. Because of its superpower competition with the USSR, the U.S. government worked with nongovernmental organizations to create the means for Iranians to train and study in the United States. The stated goal of this initiative was to establish a cultural foundation for the official relationship and to provide Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi with educated elites to administer an ambitious program of socioeconomic development. Despite these goals, Shannon locates the incubation of at least one possible version of the Iranian Revolution on American college campuses, which provided a space for a large and vocal community of dissident Iranian students to organize against the Pahlavi regime and earn the support of empathetic Americans. Together they rejected the Shah's authoritarian model of development and called for civil and political rights in Iran, giving unwitting support to the rise of the Islamic Republic of Iran.
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International education exchanges and intercultural understanding : promoting peace and global relations
Examines the complex role of international education exchange in promoting peace and intercultural understanding. The perception that international education encourages greater understanding and cooperation between, people, cultures, and nations continues to drive participation and resources to this growing sector. With thought-provoking theoretical discussions and a broad range of case studies, this volume provides a much needed critical exploration of the ways in which international education exchanges may impact individuals as well as broader issues of global peace and development.
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The Rise of China-U.S. International Cooperation in Higher Education: Views from the Field
Over the past two decades, international cooperation in higher education has become the norm in China and around the world. To exemplify these relationships, this edited volume devotes individual chapters to case studies of China-U.S. international higher education partnerships focused on 1) Collaborative graduate programs; 2) Research collaborations; 3) Student mobility; 4) Multi-institution collaborations; 5) Cultural exchanges; and 6) Branch campuses. These case studies will illuminate the strategies, challenges, and perceived benefits of cross-national collaboration. Case studies are bookended with introductory and concluding chapters that link cooperative activities to theory on diplomacy (including Western \"soft diplomacy\" and Chinese five principles of \"peaceful coexistence\" narratives); internationalization of higher education; and reflections on student and scholar mobility between Chinese and US institutions.
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Outsmarting apartheid : an oral history of South Africa's cultural and educational exchange with the United States, 1960-1999
For almost forty years, under the watchful eye of the apartheid regime, some three thousand South Africans participated in cultural and educational exchange with the United States. Exposure to American democracy brought hope during a time when social and political change seemed unlikely. In the end the process silently triumphed over the resistance of authorities, and many of the individuals who participated in the program later participated in South Africa's first democratic elections, in 1994, and now occupy key positions in academia, the media, parliament, and the judiciary. In Outsmarting Apartheid, Daniel Whitman, former Program Development Officer at the US Embassy in Pretoria, interviews the South Africans and Americans who administered, advanced, and benefited from government-funded exchange. The result is a detailed account of the workings and effectiveness of the US Information Agency and a demonstration of the value of \"soft power\" in easing democratic transition in a troubled area.
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Enhancing Asia-Europe Co-operation through Educational Exchange
This book examines the ideas of knowledge-transfer and higher education exchange in the relationship between the European Union and countries, regions, universities and think-tanks across Asia. It critically investigates some discourses of particular relevance to the cognitive framework of the academic discipline of ‘European Studies’, as currently taught across a number of countries in the Asia Pacific. For this purpose, this book presents a range of theoretical explanations, drawn from notions such as the global knowledge village, intercultural dialogue, regional integration, foreign policy analysis and international education. The author offers a unique, in-depth, investigation of a range of EU policies and agendas towards Asia, scrutinizing a number of contemporary centers, curricula and exchange initiatives in the field of European Studies in Asia, and analyzing over-arching themes, such as human rights and further sheds light on the long history of the exchange of ideas and knowledge between East and West, surveying the function of educational and intellectual exchange as a developing foreign policy tool of the European Union in Asia.
This book is essential reading for anyone interested in the relation between Europe and Asia, within Politics, International Relations, Asia-Pacific Studies, European Studies, Education, Law and Human Rights.
Dr Georg Wiessala is a Professor of International Relations at the University of Central Lancashire in Preston, UK.
Georg Wiessala is Professor of International Relations at the University of Central Lancashire
1. Introduction: The Asia-Europe ‘www of Learning’ and the ‘Asia-Europe Conversation’ 2. ‘Lands of Charm and Cruelty’: The Roles of ‘Learning’, ‘Imagination’ and ‘Myth’ in the Asia-Europe Encounter 3. Theoretical Perspectives on EU-Asia Inter-Cultural Contacts 4. Battling for Brains: Diplomacy between Education, Declaration and Aspiration: Knowledge-Transfer and Exchange in the EU’s ‘Asia Policies’ 5. Maximalist Institutionalism versus Gradual Incrementalism: Human Rights, Learning and EU-Asia Relations 6. Inter-Cultural Communication in Practice: Academic Cooperation, Curriculum Development and the Discipline of ‘European Studies’ in the EU-Asia Dialogue 7. Overall Conclusion: The Weaving of New Silk Routes and of the Asia-Europe \"www\" of Learning: Successes and Drawbacks
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