Document Type
Article
Publication Date
7-10-2019
Publication Title
Round Table: The Commonwealth Journal of International Relations
Volume
108
Pages
435-446
Publisher Name
Taylor and Francis
Abstract
This article discusses the implication of soft diplomacy in education, in the form of educational cooperation, for the governance of regimes. In drawing upon regime theory, it suggests that the Commonwealth should be viewed as a regime, and its survival is partly dependent upon how it uses educational cooperation to coordinate its functional areas, such as education. Moreover, educational cooperation at the transnational level is different from traditional South-South cooperation in that it is based on the coordination of hierarchic mechanisms. In drawing lessons from the experiences of the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) project and extending them to the Commonwealth project, it argues that soft diplomacy, around perceived global norms, propels national educational agenda-setting attitudes. From this it follows that educational cooperation is the new order of things in an era defined by educational multistakeholderism where new regimes and institutions arise and coexist alongside other regimes. In other words, the Commonwealth must now retool itself in an era driven by regime complex(es) where it must coexist and compete with issue-specific regimes as well as complex entities which are comprised of more than one regime.
Recommended Citation
Jules, Tavis D.. Regimes Theory’ as an Approach to Understanding Educational Cooperation in CARICOM and Commonwealth Countries. Round Table: The Commonwealth Journal of International Relations, 108, : 435-446, 2019. Retrieved from Loyola eCommons, Education: School of Education Faculty Publications and Other Works, http://dx.doi.org/https://doi.org/10.1080/00358533.2019.1634886
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Author Posting © Taylor and Francis, 2019. This is the author's version of the work. It is posted here by permission of Taylor and Francis for personal use, not for redistribution. The definitive version was published in Round Table: The Commonwealth Journal of International Relations, Volume 108, July, 2019 https://doi.org/10.1080/00358533.2019.1634886