Contemporary actors, networks and institutions in the European Studies in Asia discipline

The paradigms and ideological leitmotivs of the European Union’s Foreign Policy, as pertaining to Higher Education exchange with Asia, are not hard to find. They are in line with a neo-liberal view of HE which strongly promotes the tenets of ‘internationalization’, ‘global competitiveness’, ‘people-to-people exchange’ and ‘inter-cultural learning’ (Stokhof et al., 2004: 3).