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.
By:
Mario Daniels,
John Krige
Imprint: University of Chicago Press
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions:
Height: 229mm,
Width: 152mm,
Spine: 30mm
ISBN: 9780226817538
ISBN 10: 0226817539
Pages: 432
Publication Date: 25 April 2022
Audience:
Professional and scholarly
,
Undergraduate
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active
List of Abbreviations Chapter 1. Introduction: What Are Export Controls, and Why Do They Matter? Part 1 Chapter 2. The Invention of Export Controls over Unclassified Technological Data and Know-How (1917–45) Chapter 3. The Cold War National Security State and the Export Control Regime Part 2 Chapter 4. The Recalibration of American Power, the Bucy Report, and the Reshaping of Export Controls in the 1970s Chapter 5. The Reagan Administration’s Attempts to Control Soviet Knowledge Acquisition in Academia Chapter 6. Academia Fights Back: The Corson Panel and the Fundamental Research Exclusion Part 3 Chapter 7. “Economic Security” and the Politics of Export Controls over Technology Transfers to Japan in the 1980s Chapter 8. Paradigm Shifts in Export Control Policies by Reagan, Bush, and Clinton and the Evolving US-China Relations Chapter 9. The Conflict over Technology Sharing in Clinton’s Second Term: The Cox Report and the Use of Chinese Launchers Part 4 Chapter 10. Epilogue: Export Controls, US Academia, and the Chinese-American Clash during the Trump Administration Notes Index
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.
Reviews for Knowledge Regulation and National Security in Postwar America
A valuable and much-needed addition to the literature on export controls. This book will easily become a main reference for anyone trying to understand the development of the US export control system and the central role that knowledge flow controls have played in that process. -- Sam Weiss Evans, Tufts University An excellent book. From their discussion of the Bucy and Corson Reports and the subsequent stabilization of the concept of fundamental knowledge to their excellent analysis of how national security comes to encompass and become synonymous with economic security, we are on new historiographic ground. Illuminating and worthy of long disciplinary conversation. -- Michael A. Dennis, United States Naval War College
