Isaac A. Kamola is Assistant Professor of Political Science at Trinity College in Hartford, Connecticut, and coeditor of Politics of African Anticolonial Archive and The Transnational Politics of Higher Education: Contesting the Global/Transforming the Local.
Preface ix
Acknowledgments xvii
Introduction: Globalization and the World 1
Part I. Reproducing the National Imaginary
1. "Creative Imagination" Is Needed: W. W. Rostow and the Rose of Modernization as a National Imaginary 29
2. The World's Largest . . . Development Institution: Robert McNamara and the National Development Imaginary 62
Part II. Marketing the Global Imaginary
3. Marketing Can Be Magic: Theodore Levitt and Globalization as a Market Imaginary 83
4. Realities of the Global Economy: A. W. Clausen and the Banker's Global Imaginary 118
Part III. Reproducing the Global University
5. Stakeholders and Co-Investors . . . Have "Reform" on Their Mind: Kenneth Prewitt and the Defunding of Area Studies 141
6. An Opportunity to Transform the University, and, Frankly, the World: John Sexton and the Global Networked University 168
Conclusion: Reworlding the Global 189
Notes 195
References 231
Index 269
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