Knowledge and National Security: The Final Frontier

Mario Daniels is the DAAD Fachlektor at the Duitsland Instituut at the University of Amsterdam. His research focuses on the history of the political economy of sharing (and denying) knowledge in the field of high technology in the international relations since World War I. Specifically, Daniels works on a political history of economic espionage in the United States and Germany in the 20th century. Moreover, he is an expert for the history of the U.S. export control systems that regulates high technology trade since 1945. Daniels has recently published articles on U.S. national security controls over foreign direct investment, the interplay of export controls with visa denials for scientists in the Cold War, and the role of secrecy and export controls in U.S. basic and applied science.

John Krige is the Kranzburg Professor Emeritus in the School of History and Sociology at the Georgia Institute of Technology. His research focuses on the intersection between science, technology and foreign policy. Since being at Georgia Tech he has expanded his interest beyond the study of intergovernmental organizations in Western Europe to include an analysis of American and European relations during the cold war. His first monograph to develop that interest was American Hegemony and the Postwar Reconstruction of Science in Europe. He is the author of several additional books, including Sharing Knowledge, Shaping Europe, and the editor of Knowledge Flows in a Global Age: A Transnational Approach.

Together Dr. Daniels and Dr. Krige are the co-authors of the book Knowledge Regulation and National Security in Postwar America, which is the subject of our conversation today.