Gita Steiner-Khamsi is Professor of Comparative and International Education at Teachers College, Columbia University, New York, USA.

Florian Waldow is Research Director at the University of Münster, Germany.

Part I: Reasons 1. Politics of Policy Borrowing 2. Economics of Policy Borrowing 3. Harmonization, Fabricating an Educational Space and the Concept of Reference Societies 4. Cross-National Policy Attraction, Emulation, Lesson-Drawing Part II: Agencies 5. Non-State Actors, Theory of the Post-Bureaucratic State 6. International Networks 7. Transnational Regimes: OECD, World Bank 8. South-South or East-East Cooperation Part III: Processes 9. Diffusion of Beliefs and Standards and Practices Themselves 10. Policy Learning by Means of Advocacy Coalitions 11. Agenda Setting in Evidence-Based Policy Planning 12. Agenda Setting 13. Reception, Projection Part IV: Impact 14. Convergence, Isomorphism 15. Differentiation between First-Order, Second-Order and Third-Order Change 16. Impact on Existing Practices 17. Translation, Interpretation, Local Adaptation, Indigenization