Author: Antoni Verger
"WTO/GATS and the Global Politics of Higher Education"
http://www.routledge.com/books/WTOGATS-and-the-Global-Politics-of-Higher-Education-isbn9780415998826
Since the
General Agreement on Trade in Services (GATS) was created in 1995, there has
been international pressure towards the liberalization of education all over
the world, as well as new challenges to the traditional internationalization
rationale in the field of higher education. Nevertheless, education
liberalization under the GATS is also a contested process. Public universities,
teachers unions, development NGOs and other education stakeholders have opposed
and campaigned against the GATS in different countries and at a range of levels
from local to global.
Based on
intensive fieldwork in the WTO headquarters and on two case studies (Argentina and Chile), Antoni Verger opens the black-box of the GATS negotiations in the field of
education. His well-documented work explores in-depth how domestic actors and
interests are key to understanding the constitution of the global education
liberalization process entailed by the GATS as well as the opposition to this
process
in certain countries.