The Asia Pacific region is rapidly developing a wide variety of organizations and interactive patterns that are reflective of its increasing role in global economic and political engagements. Higher education constitutes a distinct sphere of activity within this overall pattern of regionalization. Within this larger pattern, however, are important, observable differences in how national development persists in some instances but is overcome in others by the forces propelling regionalization. This volume seeks to provide a useful conceptual structure for the description and analysis of these phenomena, illustrated by insightful case studies of the role performed in this overall trend of individual nations toward regionalization.

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Contents

Part I  Conceptual Issues

1. Introduction: Some Dynamics of Regionalization in Asia-Pacific Higher Education
2. A Conceptual Framework for the Regionalization of Higher Education: Application to Asia
3. Regional Cooperation in Higher Education in Asia and the Pacific
4. The Function of Regional Networks in East Asian Higher Education
   
   Part II  Country Studies
5. Japanese Higher Education and Multilateral Initiatives in East Asia
6. China in the Emerging Reality of Asia Regional Higher Education
7. Locating Indonesia within the Emergent Regionalism of Southeast Asian Higher Education
8. The Philippines and the Global Labor Market: An Emergent Form of Trans-regional Influence on Philippine Higher Education
   
   Part III  Regulatory and Governance Dimensions
9. Cooperation and Competition in Tango: Transnationalization of Higher Education and the Emergence of Regulatory Regionalism in Asia
10. Institutional Autonomy in the Restructuring of University Governance
11. The Challenges of Regionalism and Harmonization for Higher Education in Asia
12. The Dynamics of Regionalization in Contemporary Asia-Pacific Higher Education