ABSTRACT
This chapter explores that the international education draws its inspiration, legitimation, and its motivating philosophy from ‘liberalism internationalism’. Further, it is argued that as liberal internationalism is currently in tatters, so too is international education. Inasmuch as international education is part of the philosophical infrastructure of liberal internationalism it too is experiencing a crisis. Freedom House reports ‘Democracy in Crisis: The World in 2018’. Democracy has faced its most serious crisis in decades in 2017 as its basic tenets—including guarantees of free and fair elections, the rights of minorities, freedom of the press, and the rule of law—has come under attack around the world. Liberal internationalism originates as a foreign policy graft of liberalism which is a rights-bound concept that recognizes that human beings as autonomous agents have won certain rights.
