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Book SynopsisThe rise of neo-nationalism is having a profound and troubling impact on leading national universities and the societies they serve. This is the first comparative study of how today's right-wing populist movements and authoritarian governments are threatening higher education. Universities have long been at the forefront of both national development and global integration. But the political and policy world in which they operate is undergoing a transition, one that is reflective of a significant change in domestic politics and international relations: a populist turn inward among a key group of nation-states, often led by demagogues, that includes China and Hong Kong, Turkey, Hungary, Russia, Brazil, the United Kingdom, and the United States. In many parts of the world, the COVID-19 pandemic provided an opportunity for populists and autocrats to further consolidate their power. Within right-wing political ecosystems, universities, in effect, offer the proverbial canary in the coal mi
Trade Review[The] points that Douglass makes...are quite illuminating....The state of US colleges and universities is to a great extent a product of and reflects the political traditions, for good and evil, and the present-day balance of political forces in our country....The essays in this collection suggest that any efforts to defend the intellectual freedom and institutional independence of scholars and the colleges and universities in which they work will fall short if they are divorced from constructive and active engagement in the political environment...
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Academe BlogTable of ContentsPreface. Something's Going On
John Aubrey Douglass
Chapter 1. Neo-nationalism and Universities in Historical Perspective
John Aubrey Douglass
Chapter 2. Neo-nationalism and Universities: A Conceptual Model
John Aubrey Douglass
Chapter 3. The Mystery of Brexit: Tumult and Fatigue in British Higher Education
Brendan O'Malley
Chapter 4. Trumpian Nationalism and American Universities
John Aubrey Douglass
Chapter 5. Turbulent Times: Intellectual and Institutional Challenges for Universities in Germany, Hungary, and Poland
Wilhelm Krull and Thomas Brunotte
Chapter 6. Neo-nationalism in the European Union and Universities
Marijk van der Wende
Chapter 7. Turkish Academics in the Era of Erdogan
Brendan O'Malley
Chapter 8. Nationalism Revived: China's Universities under President Xi
Karin Fischer
Chapter 9. Balancing Nationalism and Globalism: Higher Education in Singapore and Hong Kong
Bryan E. Penprase and John Aubrey Douglass
Chapter 10. The Role of Universities in Putin's Russia: Reinforcing the State
Igor Chirikov and Igor Fedyukin
Chapter 11. Bolsonaro's Brazilian Neo-nationalism and Universities
Elizabeth Balbachevsky and José Augusto Guilhon Albuquerque
Notes
Contributors
Index
