Fertile Ground for Establishing American-Style Universities in Post-Conflict Societies: Historical Comparisons and Current Rationales
In: Higher Education Policy, Jg. 37 (2024-06-01), Heft 2, S. 418-435
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The US-led invasion in 2003 created opportunities for Iraq to establish American-style universities. Drawing on policy borrowing and educational transfer theory and using interviews as the primary method of data collection, this study examines how the American-style universities are rationalized and appropriated by various actors at national, sectoral, and institutional levels. The analysis shows that the rationales for establishing American-style universities in post-2003 Iraq differ by how each was funded and politically and financially supported. The new American-style universities in Iraq in this study represented something for both the USA and for Iraq. For the USA, they are a source of public diplomacy and soft power, and for Iraq, an instrument that promises peacebuilding, social cohesion, transition to democracy, reforming the local higher education system, legitimacy, and probably a tool to 'revolutionize' Iraq's higher education and bring back its glory.
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Fertile Ground for Establishing American-Style Universities in Post-Conflict Societies: Historical Comparisons and Current Rationales
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Autor/in / Beteiligte Person: | Jafar, Hayfa |
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Zeitschrift: | Higher Education Policy, Jg. 37 (2024-06-01), Heft 2, S. 418-435 |
Veröffentlichung: | 2024 |
Medientyp: | academicJournal |
ISSN: | 0952-8733 (print) ; 1740-3863 (electronic) |
DOI: | 10.1057/s41307-023-00312-5 |
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