ABSTRACT
An ongoing study on international university cooperation has been conducted to classify international university organizations by purpose and administrative patterns. Between the years from 1996 to 2008, surveys were sent to over 600 international university organizations worldwide, in which respondents were asked to classify their entity. While characteristics are found which distinguish unique qualities, a further analysis is undertaken to determine whether such entities evolved as a consequence of globalization (i.e., massification, transnational regulatory frameworks, ICT networks and knowledge banks) or because of economic imperatives related to internationalization strategies. This chapter suggests that globalization and internationalization policies and practices converge as well as diverge around the world and accordingly are fundamentally different in both response and action: ‘Much as we might wish to believe otherwise, universal love and the welfare of the species as a whole are concepts which simply do not make evolutionary sense’ (Dawkins, 1981, p. 2).
