U.S. Power in International Higher Education

JENNY J. LEE is a professor in the Center for the Study of Higher Education at the University of Arizona in Tucson.

International Higher Education as Geopolitical Power 
Jenny J. Lee

Part I: Geopolitics and the Regulation of Higher Education
2 International Education as Soft Power: A History of Changing Governments, Shifting Rationales, and Lessons Learned 
Roopa Desai Trilokekar
3 What Do Global University Rankings Tell Us about U.S. Geopolitics in Higher Education? 
Ellen Hazelkorn
4 International Accreditation as Geopolitical Space: U.S. Practices as “Global Standards” for Quality Assurance in Higher Education 
Gerardo L. Blanco

Part II: National and Global Research
5 Geopolitical Tensions and Global Science: Understanding U.S.-China Scientific Research Collaboration through Scientific Nationalism and Scientific Globalism 
John P. Haupt and Jenny J. Lee
6 Concepts for Understanding the Geopolitics of Graduate Student and Postdoc Mobility 
Brendan Cantwell

Part III: University Internationalization Strategies
7 Exploring Geopolitics in U.S. Campus Internationalization Plans 113
Chrystal A. George Mwangi, Sean Jung-Hau Chen, and Pempho Chinkondenji
8 The Life Cycle of Transnational Partnerships in Higher Education 
Dale LaFleur

Part IV: Students and International Learning
9 Global Positional Competition and Interest Convergence: Student Mobility as a Commodity for U.S. Academic Imperialism 
Christina w. Yao
10 Global Competence: Hidden Frames of National Security and Economic Competitiveness 
Chris R. Glass
11 Internationalizing the Curriculum: Conceptual Orientations and Practical Implications in the Shadow of Western Hegemony 
Sharon Stein

Part V: Concluding Thoughts
12 Where Do We Go from Here? 
Jenny J. Lee and Santiago Castiello-Gutiérrez

Notes on Contributors 
Index