From Attraction to Strategy: Comparing the Foreign Policy Logic of Overseas Scholarship Programmes in Australia and China (opens in new tab)

AbstractGovernment-funded overseas scholarship programmes have most commonly been analysed through the lens of soft power. Recent research has emphasised that the relationship between educational exchange and political influence is contingent, uneven, and often disrupted by unintended consequences. Why do governments continue to use scholarships? This article presents an alternative framework, conceptualised as multidimensional foreign policy logic, to examine how states design and justify sc...