The Meaning of Educational Exchange
The Meaning of Educational Exchange
The Nationalist Exceptionalism of Fulbright’s Liberal Internationalism
This chapter examines Fulbright’s theories of cultural exchange to understand the substance and assumptions of his commitment to liberal internationalism. It shows that his assumption that educational exchange would produce mutual understanding was underscored by his assumption that the United States embodied universal liberal values. Therefore, Fulbright presumed that a program of exchange would produce an expanding sphere of American influence. This assumption was a product of deeper currents in his philosophy of international relations: his ideology of national exceptionalism, his faith in the transformative power of American culture, his idealist belief that war was the product of misunderstanding, and his confidence in the power that flowed from American economic and political preponderance.
Keywords: Internationalism, Nationalism, Educational exchange, Fulbright program, Liberalism
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