World Yearbook of Education 2026

Katja Brøgger is Associate Professor and Research Program Director at Aarhus University, Denmark.Hannah Moscovitz is Postdoctoral Research Fellow at Aarhus University, Denmark.Susan L. Robertson is Professor of Sociology at the University of Manchester, UK, and Bye-Fellow at Wolfson College, University of Cambridge.Jenny J. Lee is Vice President and Dean of Arizona International at the University of Arizona, and Professor in the Center for the Study of Higher Education.

• IntroductionKatja Brøgger, Hannah Moscovitz, Susan L. Robertson & Jenny J. LeePart I. Governing Higher Education Knowledges and Spaces1. The changing dynamics of space and scale: The university between nationalism and globalismSimon Marginson2. Academic Freedom, Openness, and the Shifting Geopolitics of European Higher EducationKatja Brøgger & Dorota Dakowska3. Unravelling the Missing Geopolitical Dimension in Latin American UniversitiesCarolina Guzmán-Valenzuela4. Confronting Colonialism and Mobilizing Reparations in Higher EducationSharon Stein & Vanessa Andreotti5. Perforated Nations, Universities, and the Zonal Politics of Knowledge ProductionSusan L. Robertson, Chris Muellerleile, Jian Wu & Kris Olds6. Universities in Exile: A Conceptual FrameworkKyle A. Long & Carly O’Connell7. Generative AI and the Next Phase of the Platform UniversityMark Carrigan & J.J. Sylvia IVPart II. Sites and Strategies of Domination and Resistance8. Students Revolt, State Revenge: Universities and Authoritarianism in IranShahrzad Mojab & Mahdi Ganjavi9. Reclaiming Knowledge, Rebuilding University: Higher Education against War and Repression in Autonomous Northeast Syria/RojavaSardar Saadi10. Translocal Articulations in Student Activism for Social Justice: Resonances Across the WorldGritt B. Nielsen & Thierry M. Luescher11. Illiberal politics and threats against academic freedomAndrea Pető, Alina Dragolea & Bogdan Florian12. Critical Thinking and Solidarity Dilemmas in Global Higher Education: an Autoethnographic Perspective on Academics in the Context of Transnational ConflictsAnatoly V. Oleksiyenko13. Crusading Against an “Immoral Academy”: The State, Universities and the National FantasyRasmus Harsbo & Ester Zangrandi14. Internationalizing Higher Education, Nation Branding, and Geopolitical Anomalies: Scotland and Northern Cyprus in PerspectiveThéotime Chabre & Hannah Moscovitz15. Academic diaspora and the rise of transnational repression in international higher educationAnnette Bamberger