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Public diplomacy and academic mobility in Sweden : The Swedish Institute and Scholarship Programs for Foreign Academics, 1938-2010 / Andreas Åkerlund.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Åkerlund, Andreas, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Educational exchanges--Sweden.
- Educational exchanges.
- Teachers, Foreign--Employment--Sweden.
- Teachers, Foreign.
- College teachers--Sweden.
- College teachers.
- Teachers, Foreign--Employment.
- Sweden.
- Physical Description:
- 246 pages ; 23 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Lund, Sweden : Nordic Academic Press, 2016.
- 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.
- Contents:
- 1 Introduction 13
- Internationalization of higher education and research 16
- Public diplomacy 24
- Scholarly exchanges and public diplomacy 29
- Public diplomacy, internationalization, and universities 30
- The study 34
- 2 Diplomacy through exchanges 39
- Bilateral scholarships, 1938-1972
- The Enlightenment Board 39
- Why scholarships? 40
- Higher education in Sweden to 1939 43
- Exchanges in wartime 44
- The founding of the Swedish Institute in 1945 46
- The Swedish Institute, 1945-1959 48
- The principles of postwar exchanges 51
- Exchanges at the dawn of the Cold War 54
- Activist foreign policy 57
- Exchanges with the Soviet Union 59
- Cultural programs and exchanges with Eastern Europe 64
- Scholarship holders, 1938-1972 67
- 3 International solidarity and academic internationalization, 1972-1990 77
- The expansion of higher education 78
- From association to foundation 79
- Guest scholarships 81
- Academic internationalization as international solidarity 84
- Solidarity in practice-scholarships for Chilean intellectuals 88
- Exchange as development assistance 92
- Academic internationalization to the fore 97
- Expansion and diversification 100
- Scholarship holders, 1972-1990 102
- 4 Aid and trade, 1990-2010 109
- Cooperation with Eastern Europe 111
- Swedish aid as knowledge transfer 114
- The SI and Eastern Europe, 1990-1997 116
- A state agency with a mission 120
- Baltic billions and the Visby Programme 124
- Keeping up with Eastern Europe 130
- The slow death of bilateral exchange 132
- Reorganizing academic internationalization 134
- ODA-fication 136
- Scholarship holders, 1990-2010 139
- 5 Long-term changes, 1938-2010 145
- Sources of funding for the SI's exchanges 148
- An overall view of scholarship holders, 1938-2010 153
- Funding, scholarship holders, and mobility patterns, 1938 -2010 164
- 6 Conclusions 167
- The aims of the scholarship programs 167
- Organizational and institutional change 171
- Public diplomacy impact on internationalization 174
- Public diplomacy and academic exchange 177.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 217-237) and index (pages 239-246)
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Sabin W. Colton, Jr., Memorial Fund.
- ISBN:
- 9789188168511
- 9188168514
- OCLC:
- 956351682
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