Knowledge Regulation and National Security in Postwar America - Softcover

Daniels, Mario; Krige, John

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0226817539 ISBN 13: 9780226817538

Publisher: University of Chicago Press, 2022

Synopsis

The first historical study of export control regulations as a tool for the sharing and withholding of knowledge.

In this groundbreaking book, Mario Daniels and John Krige set out to show the enormous political relevance that export control regulations have had for American debates about national security, foreign policy, and trade policy since 1945. Indeed, they argue that from the 1940s to today the issue of how to control the transnational movement of information has been central to the thinking and actions of the guardians of the American national security state. The expansion of control over knowledge and know-how is apparent from the increasingly systematic inclusion of universities and research institutions into a system that in the 1950s and 1960s mainly targeted business activities. As this book vividly reveals, classification was not the only—and not even the most important—regulatory instrument that came into being in the postwar era.

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About the Author

Mario Daniels is the DAAD Fachlektor at the Duitsland Instituut at the University of Amsterdam. John Krige is the Kranzberg Professor Emeritus in the School of History and Sociology at the Georgia Institute of Technology. He is the author of several books, including Sharing Knowledge, Shaping Europe, and the editor of Knowledge Flows in a Global Age: A Transnational Approach, also published by the University of Chicago Press.

Edition details

• Publisher: University of Chicago Press
• Publication date: 2022
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0226817539
• ISBN 13: 9780226817538
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 450