The Fulbright Program in the Global Knowledge Economy: The Nation's Neglected Comparative Advantage

Abstract

The end of the Cold War has led to considerable retrenchment in aspects of American foreign affairs—virtually across the board. The assumption was that because the U.S. did not have some of these programs and activities before the Cold War surely it would need less of them after the Cold War. No threat, no need! Of course, the Cold War was not the conceptual framework for the Fulbright Program, but rather mutual understanding between the United States and other nations globally. The Cold War provided a competition of ideas. Its existence increased appropriations for the Fulbright Program.