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)
Table of Contents:
  • Acknowledgments
  • List of acronyms
  • 1. Introduction
  • Internationalization of higher education and research
  • Public diplomacy
  • Scholarly exchanges and public diplomacy
  • Public diplomacy, internationalization, and universities
  • The study
  • 2. Diplomacy through exchanges
  • Bilateral scholarships, 1938-1972
  • The Enlightenment Board
  • Why scholarships?
  • Higher education in Sweden to 1939
  • Exchanges in wartime
  • The founding of the Swedish Institute in 1945
  • The Swedish Institute, 1945-1959
  • The principles of postwar exchanges
  • Exchanges at the dawn of the Cold War
  • Activist foreign policy
  • Exchanges with the Soviet Union
  • Cultural programs and exchanges with Eastern Europe
  • Scholarship holders, 1938-1972
  • 3. International solidarity and academic internationalization, 1972-1990
  • The expansion of higher education
  • From association to foundation
  • Guest scholarships
  • Academic internationalization as international solidarity
  • Solidarity in practice-scholarships for Chilean intellectuals
  • Exchange as development assistance
  • Academic internationalization to the fore
  • Expansion and diversification
  • Scholarship holders, 1972-1990
  • 4. Aid and trade, 1990-2010
  • Cooperation with Eastern Europe
  • Swedish aid as knowledge transfer
  • The SI and Eastern Europe, 1990-1997
  • A state agency with a mission
  • Baltic billions and the Visby Programme
  • Keeping up with Eastern Europe
  • The slow death of bilateral exchange
  • Reorganizing academic internationalization
  • ODA-fication
  • Scholarship holders, 1990-2010
  • 5. Long-term changes, 1938-2010
  • Sources of funding for the SI's exchanges
  • An overall view of scholarship holders, 1938-2010
  • Funding, scholarship holders, and mobility patterns, 1938 -2010
  • 6. Conclusions
  • The aims of the scholarship programs
  • Organizational and institutional change
  • Public diplomacy impact on internationalization
  • Public diplomacy and academic exchange
  • Notes
  • Appendices
  • References
  • Index of countries and regions
  • Index of organizations and institutions
  • Index of names
Purchased from the Andrew E. Wigeland and G. Norman Wigeland Library Book Fund bookplate

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