ABSTRACT
This conclusion presents some closing thoughts on the concepts covered in the preceding chapters of this book. The book is devoted to state-building processes and economic questions, were dominated by an agential perspective, concentrating on the mechanisms which had historically contributed to the international standing of states by securing improvements in education and science. It discusses both the theoretical underpinnings of the analysis—the theory of transnational regimes—and the characteristics of soft coordination peculiar to governance by numbers. The book suggests that it does face the question of the purpose of learning and of the means by which the sense of that purpose could be fostered among pupils and students. The cited example of a contemporary structure of governance in the shape of a transnational regime is thus merely a narrow section of a complicated reality; however, it uncovers some of the characteristic mechanisms of structural power in education and science.
