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Mario Daniels

Professor of History, BMW Center for German and European Studies, Georgetown University
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About Mario

Daniels' 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.

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Contributions

The Fight over High-Tech Supremacy Isn't New. We Just Haven't Learned Our Lesson

  • John J. Krige
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Publications

"Controlling Knowledge, Controlling People: Travel Restrictions of U.S. Scientists and National Security" Diplomatic History 43, no. 1 (2019): 57-82.

Shows how the U.S. government used during the early Cold War passport restrictions to control U.S. scientists and the international circulation of scientific-technological knowledge. 

"Restricting the Transnational Movement of Knowledgeable Bodies: The Interplay of U.S. Visa Restrictions and Export Controls in the Cold War" in How Knowledge Moves: Writing the Transnational History of Science and Technology, edited by John Krige (University of Chicago Press, 2019), 35-61.

Discusses how the U.S. government used during the Cold War export control and visa regulations in combination to regulate the international circulation of scientific-technological knowledge.

"Beyond the Reach of Regulation? 'Basic' and 'Applied' Research in Early Cold War America" (with John Krige). Technology and Culture 59, no. 2 (2018): 226-250.

Argues that, in the Cold War, concerns about the spread of government secrecy in U.S. science and technology profoundly shaped the post-war understanding of the distinction between basic and applied science.

"Japanese Industrial Espionage, Foreign Direct Investment, and the Decline of the U.S. 'Industrial Base' in the 1980s" Bulletin of the German Historical Institute 63 (2018): 45-66.

Shows how the current U.S. system of national security regulation of foreign direct investment through CFIUS was developed in the context of the 1980s Japanese challenge to U.S. economic and technological power.