The European Association for International Education @ 25 years

By Hans de Wit and Fiona Hunter. When the European Association for International Education, or EAIE, was founded in 1989 in Amsterdam, Europe was a different place in many ways.
Cold War thinking still dominated worldviews, the European Community had 12 member countries compared to the current 28 of the European Union, and the Euro had not yet been introduced as a common currency. Asian economies were beginning to emerge, but Asian countries were considered more Third World than New World and able to challenge Old Europe. More...