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How national social institutions cope with global-level changes depends on a host of historical, cultural, and social background factors, as well as the specific policies designed and pursued by a given state. “It is not the strongest of species that survive, not the most intelligent, but the most responsive to change”: this famous quotation from Charles Darwin can guide and inform our understanding of how the Russian Higher Learning system has grappled with the need to internationalize and participate in the global competition to survive.
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Baykov, A., Crowley-Vigneau, A., Kalyuzhnova, Y. (2023). Political Implications of Global Higher Education Sector: The Russian Case. In: Baykov, A., Shakleina, T. (eds) Polycentric World Order in the Making. Palgrave Macmillan, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-19-5375-0_16
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