This article about study abroad builds on Astin’s and Tinto’s theory about the positive effects on the college experience. The authors suggest that students who are highly involved in their school experience are likely to show more interest in study abroad and will incorporate this experience into their regular programs of study

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Globalisation involves the transformation of space and time, transcending state territories, state frontiers, and historical traditions. Whereas international relations embody the notion of transactions between nations, global relations imply that social, economic, political, and cultural activities disengage from territorial authority and jurisdictions and function according to more immediate imperatives of worldwide spheres of interest. Through globalisation the economy is dominated by market forces run by transnational corporations owing allegiance to no nation-state and located wherever global advantage dictates. Paralleling the development of multinational industry is a global electronic fi nance market that exchanges more than a trillion dollars a day (Bergsten 1988 ).Globalising forces have a long history, but they accelerated in the 1980s following the economic worldwide liberalisations of the 1970s, the growing transportation systems, movements of people, and the emergence of a global communications network. Globalising processes do not involve all countries equally. Some are highly involved, while others are not, and some aspects in one and the same country are highly globalised, while others are not (McGrew 1992 ; Waters 1995 ; Hirst and Thompson 1996a , b ). Besides the economy, globalisation includes overlapping political and cultural processes such that economic issues often appear synonymous with political issues. Commentators claim a global political culture has emerged driven by what they call political neoliberalism, characterised by a kind of 'buccaneer individualism', ideological competitiveness, and a secular and materialistic market-oriented economy (Spragens 1995 ). Neoliberalism is an unfortunate label