ABSTRACT
This chapter examines the dynamic and changing relationships within and between higher education in Brazil and the Latin American region, and as it is mediated through national, regional, and globalizing projects. We explore the emergence, materialization, institutionalization, and tendential outcomes within these distinct, but not discrete, territorial spaces as they are shaped by development projects and routes that involve both neoliberal political projects, on the one hand, and recent countertendencies, on the other. These countertendencies now challenge the historic inclination within the Latin American region to define development in the shadow of, and in relation to, US foreign policy, with important implications for higher education policies and practices. These newer projects offer the possibility of an alternative trajectory that marks a new phase in national and regional development.
