Higher education professional associations (HEPAs) are well-established agents of knowledge production and have been influential in shaping higher education policies and practices. In the context of US international higher education, HEPAs have contributed to the rise of ‘internationalization’ as a discursive practice. Proposing an analytical framework that takes up Foucauldian analysis of discourse and studies in governmentality, this paper examines a corpus of ACE and NAFSA reports in order to trace the emergence of internationalization and its lines of transformation as both a regime of truth and a regime of practice in the context of US higher education over the last 30 or so years. The findings of this study illustrate that since its emergence in the 1980s, HEPAs have participated in the transformation of internationalization from a discourse of exchange to a discourse of competition.

高等教育专业协会 (HEPA) 是公认的知识生产代理人，在制定高等教育政策和实践方面具有影响力。在美国国际高等教育的背景下，HEPA 促进了“国际化”作为一种话语实践的兴起。本文提出了一个分析框架，采用福柯式的话语分析和治理研究，检查了 ACE 和 NAFSA 报告的语料库，以追溯国际化的出现及其作为真理制度和实践制度的转变路线在过去 30 年左右的美国高等教育背景下。这项研究的结果表明，自 1980 年代出现以来，