In today’s world, globalization and internationalization of education necessitate new initiatives to catch the new era. Turkey, as a country in between the east and the west, attempts to do so through its recent exchange program in higher education. Interestingly, Turkey’s Mevlana exchange program as an ambitious project in higher education denotes an instance of policy transfer: taking the EU model (i.e., Erasmus) and slightly adjusting it to the national circumstances. This article unpacks Turkey’s Mevlana program to demonstrate the process of policy transfer by focusing on different questions posed within the policy transfer literature. It argues that Mevlana is drawn from Erasmus, and it is created as a tool of soft power that is increasingly exercised by Turkey due to its changing focus within the Turkish foreign policy of 2000s.

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模仿伊拉斯谟？土耳其 Mevlana 高等教育交流计划

当今世界，教育全球化和国际化需要新的举措来迎接新时代。土耳其作为一个介于东西方之间的国家，试图通过其最近的高等教育交流计划来实现这一目标。有趣的是，土耳其的 Mevlana 交换计划作为一项雄心勃勃的高等教育项目代表了一个政策转移的例子：采用欧盟模式（即伊拉斯谟）并根据国情对其进行略微调整。本文通过关注政策转移文献中提出的不同问题，解开土耳其的 Mevlana 计划，以展示政策转移的过程。它认为 Mevlana 来自伊拉斯谟，它是作为软实力的工具而创建的，由于土耳其在 2000 年代的外交政策中重点不断变化，土耳其越来越多地行使这一工具。