Introduction
1. GATS, Higher Education and Global Governance Studies
Block I: GATS in Context
2. Education in the WTO/GATS Context
3. GATS, Markets and Higher Education
Block II: Gats Results and Procedures
4. Negotiating the GATS: A Multi-Level System
5. State of Play and Trends of the Negotiations
Block III: Inside the Negotiations
6. GATS and Education: The Passionate Debate
7. For or Against Education Liberalization: The International Struggle
8. Negotiating Education in the WTO: Key Ideas and Actors
9. National Case Studies: Argentina and Chile
Conclusions
10. Explaining the GATS Results in Education
Appendices Appendix 1: Edu-GATS Values Appendix 2: Argentinean Education Liberalization in Mercosur Appendix 3: Chilean Education in FTAs Appendix 4: The Reverse Boomerang Effect
Biography
Antoni Verger is a researcher and lecturer at the Amsterdam Institute for Metropolitan and International Development Studies (AMIDSt) of the Universiteit van Amsterdam. His principal research topics are globalization and education politics, as well as higher education and international development. He was awarded a PhD from the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (UAB).
"...this book offers the field of comparative education an excellent model for studying and theorizing complex multilateralism in education using literatures from the field of political science, sociology, and international relations."--Comparative Educational Review
