International Organizations and Higher Education Policy

Roberta Malee Bassett is currently serving as a higher education specialist with the World Bank, in Washington, DC.Alma Maldonado-Maldonado is assistant professor at the Center for the Study of Higher Education at the University of Arizona.

• Series’ Editor IntroductionIntroductionPart I. International Organizations and the Field of Higher Education 1. Higher Education: An Emerging Field of Research and Policy, Philip G. Altbach, Center for International Higher Education, Boston College (USA)Part II. Multilateral Organizations: The Internal and External Voices 2. UNESCO: The World’s Reference Point for Change in Higher Education, Stamenka Uvalic-Trumbic, UNESCO, Paris (France)3. UNESCO and Higher Education: Opportunity or Impasse? Karen Mundy and Meggan Madden, OISE, University of Toronto (Canada)4. OECD Work on the Internationalization of Higher Education: An Insider Perspective, Tom Schuller, Inquiry into the Future for Lifelong Learning (UK) and Stéphan Vincent-Lancrin, OECD (France) 5. The OECD and its Influence in Higher Education: A Critical Revision, Alberto Amaral, University of Porto and Guy Neave, Centro de Investigacão de Politicas de Ensino Superior, CIPES (Portugal)6. Transforming Higher Education in Developing Countries: The Role of the World Bank, Jamil Salmi, Richard Hopper, and Roberta Malee Bassett, The World Bank, Washington, DC (USA)7. Market Multilateralism, the World Bank Group, and the Asymmetries of Globalizing Higher Education: Toward a Critical Political Economy Analysis, Susan L. Robertson, Centre for Globalisation, Societies and Education, University of Bristol (UK)8. GATS and Education Services: Current Commitments and Future Prospects, Aik Hoe Lim and Dale Honeck, The World Trade Organization (Switzerland)Part III. Regional Actors: Africa, Asia, Europe and Latin America 9. Higher Education in Africa: The Dynamics of International Partnerships and Interventions, Damtew Teferra, The Ford Foundation, New York (USA)10. International Organizations and Asian Higher Education: The case of China, Rui Yang, Faculty of Education, University of Hong Kong (China)11. European Multinational Regimes and Higher Education Policy, José-Ginés Mora, Institute of Education, University of London (UK) and Juan Felix, CEGES, Technical University of Valencia (Spain)12. International Organizations in Latin American Higher Education: Projects and Contradictions in the Post-World War II and Post-Washington Consensus Era, Ángel Díaz Barriga, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (Mexico) and Blanca Minerva Torres-Olave, University of Arizona (USA)Part IV. International Aid and Higher Education 13. American Foundations and Higher Education in Developing Countries: Shifting Rationales and Strategies for Support, Jorge Balán, Centro de Estudios de Estado y Sociedad (Argentina) 14. Higher Education, Donor Organizations, Nation-States, and Development: The Public Donor Dimension in Africa, Peter Maassen, University of Oslo (Norway) and Nico Cloete, Center for Higher Education Transformation (South Africa)15. International Organizations and Bilateral Aid: National Interests and Transnational Agendas, Alma Maldonado-Maldonado and Brendan Cantwell, University of Arizona (USA)List of ContributorsIndex

"The editors of this volume have given the international higher education community a valuable resource as we enter the second decade of the 21st century. This book has the potential to serve as a tool for nation states, regional consortiums, and international organizations as they consider their roles in the regulation, direction, and funding of higher education. I highly recommend it as a text in graduate-level courses in higher education and international education and could make the case that international organizations use the book as a resource to better navigate the sometimes difficult landscape of working with and understanding higher education on the national, regional, and global levels."--The Review of Higher Education, Volume 33, Number 4, Summer 2010, pp. 604-606