Public diplomacy and academic mobility in Sweden : the Swedish Institute and scholarship programs for foreign academics, 1938-2010 /

Public diplomacy and academic mobility in Sweden : the Swedish Institute and scholarship programs for foreign academics, 1938-2010 /

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Author / Creator:Åkerlund, Andreas, author.
Imprint:Lund : Nordic Academic Press, [2016]
Description:246 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
Language:English
Subject:
Educational exchanges -- Sweden.
Teachers, Foreign -- Employment -- Sweden.
College teachers -- Sweden.
College teachers.
Educational exchanges.
Teachers, Foreign -- Employment.
Sweden.
Format: Print Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11296769
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ISBN:9789188168511 (hd. bd.)
9188168514 (hd. bd.)
9789188168528 (online)
Notes:Includes bibliographical references ( pages 217-237) and indexes.
Summary:Analyzes Sweden's scholarship programs for foreign academics in a long-term perspective. here a quantitative analysis of scholarship holders is related to Swedish exchange policy and granting practices by looking at the Swedish Institute in particular. The result is an account of how public diplomacy, foreign policy, development assistance, and the ideas of a knowledge-based economy and international competition affected academic exchanges with Sweden in the twentieth century.
Other form:9789188168528 (online)

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