Paola Mattei, PhD is Professor of Political Science at the Department of Social and Political Sciences, University of Milan, Italy. Previously, she was Associate Professor at the University of Oxford and Governing Body Fellow at St Antony's College, University of Oxford. Xavier Dumay, PhD is Professor of Education at UCLouvain, Belgium. His research interests include the globalization of education and educational policies, new-institutional theory, global politics, and changing forms of education. Eric Mangez, PhD is Professor of Sociology at the University of Louvain, Belgium, where he teaches social theory, research method, and political sociology. His earlier work dealt with the sociology of the curriculum, education policies and family-school relations. Jacqueline Behrend, PhD is Professor of Political Science at the School of Politics and Government of the Universidad Nacional de San Martin in Argentina and a tenured Research Fellow at the Argentine National Councilfor Scientific and Technical Research.