This article examines the national and European policy contexts that shaped the Swedish internationalisation agenda in higher education since 2000, the policy ideas that were mobilised to promote it, and the national priorities that steered higher education debates. The analysis highlights how domestic and European policy priorities, as well as discourses around increasing global economic reach and building solidarity across the world, have produced an internationalisation strategy that is distinctly ‘national’. Drawing on the analysis of the most recent internationalisation strategies we argue that the particular Swedish approach to internationalisation has its ideational foundations in viewing higher education as a political instrument to promote social mobility and justice, as well as a means to develop economic competitiveness and employability capacity. In addition, internationalisation has been used to legitimise national reform goals, but also as a policy objective on its own with the ambition to position Sweden as a competitive knowledge nation in a global context.

本文研究了自2000年以来塑造瑞典高等教育国际化议程的国家和欧洲政策环境，为促进瑞典国际化议程而动员的政策思想以及引导高等教育辩论的国家优先事项。分析强调了国内和欧洲的政策重点以及围绕增加全球经济影响力和在世界范围内建立团结的论述如何产生了明显是“国家”的国际化战略。通过对最新国际化战略的分析，我们认为瑞典的国际化特殊方法具有其思想基础，可以将高等教育视为促进社会流动和正义的政治工具，以及发展经济竞争力和就业能力的方法。此外，国际化已被用来使国家改革目标合法化，而且也被单独用作政策目标，以期在全球范围内将瑞典定位为竞争性知识国家。