Education has long been regarded as one of the effective tools of old colonialism to achieve foreign expansion.Education has long been regarded by the old colonialism as one of the effective tools to achieve for-eign expansion.With the gradual collapse of the colonial order on a global scale,great changes have taken place in the international field of education,in which cultural diplomacy and knowledge diplomacy have suc-cessively become the paradigms of theoretical research on internationalization of higher education.The expla-nation of different international paradigms is conducive to the formation of the theory of national globalization and the creation of favorable conditions for maintaining international relations.Through comparative analysis of the relevant theories and characteristics of internationalization,this paper provides the path and direction for the development of internationalization of higher education.
culture diplomacyknowledge diplomacyinternationalization of educationpostcolonial study