Beyond the ‘Tissue of Clichés’?: The Purposes of the Fulbright Programme and New Pathways of Analysis

This article critically explores some of the evaluative perspectives and models developed by social science scholars in order to further critical thinking on function exchange programmes, particularly Fulbright, within international relations. It takes concept ‘educational exchange’ mean movement individuals or groups between nations for purpose training kind, ranging from high school visits professional skills. The Fulbright programme covers both student scholar has added element that academics are moving also teach, taking their expertise with them. While there many studies bilateral is more explore terms educational as a vector transfer (be it knowledge, material, people, all three) transnational history. first surveys literature assess how its purposes relations have been presented. then potentially innovative ways conceptualise exchanges interactions: ‘geographies exchange,’ ‘brain circulation,’ ‘centres calculation,’ ‘enlightened nationalism,’ ‘parapublics’.