Rethinking International Cooperation Pedro for Development – Guiliche

RECENSE INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT COOPERATION

In the last two decades in Mozambique, the main reforms of Higher Education (ES) have been financed by the World Bank (WB), suggesting its high incidence on the ES Political Project in the country, and a future of the public network of Higher Education Institutions (IES) can be glimpsed that reflects a perspective resulting from structural adjustment measures, inspired by the Washington Consensus and supported by the international agency. Therefore, we argue for the need to build a Mozambican ES profile consistent with the challenges of national development and a better articulation between the actors in its implementation. This research was based on arena theory and approach of the network of actors, whose declinations offer appropriate theoretical-methodological tools to unveil interactions between multiple actors, their interests and representations. Thus, inspired by Bourdieu field theory, we seek the interpretation of Sardan arenas and Tsebelis game theory to explain the formulation and implementation of public policies (PP) in this sector. With a time frame from 1993 to 2018, we sought to analyze the political implications of international cooperation in the ES area, to answer the following question: how, in Mozambique, do the World Bank and State agenda cohabit or conflict in the field of higher education? To this end, we took as elements of analysis the main areas of cooperation of the WB and its framework in the ES Policy, in order to assess its relevance within the national political system. To make the