John Krige is the Kranzberg Professor Emeritus in the School of History and Sociology at the Georgia Institute of Technology. He is the coauthor, most recently, of Knowledge Regulation and National Security in Postwar America, also published by the University of Chicago Press.

• IntroductionWriting the Transnational History of Knowledge Flows in a Global AgeJohn KrigeChapter 1Knowledge, State Power, and the Invention of International ScienceJessica WangPart I: Regulating Transnational Knowledge FlowsChapter 2Harnessing Invention: The British Admiralty and the Political Economy of Knowledge in the World War I EraKatherine C. EpsteinChapter 3Culture Diplomacy: Penicillin and the Problem of Anglo-American Knowledge Sharing in World War IIMichael A. FalconeChapter 4Dangerous Calculations: The Origins of the US High-Performance Computer Export Safeguards Regime, 1968–1974Mario DanielsChapter 5Regulating the Transnational Flow of Intangible Knowledge of Space Launchers between the United States and China in the Clinton EraJohn KrigePart II: Facilitating Transnational Knowledge FlowsChapter 6Beyond Borlaug’s Shadow: Mexican Seeds and the Narratives of the Green RevolutionGabriela Soto LaveagaChapter 7Moving Coffee from the Cloud Forests of Colonial Angola to the Breakfast Tables of Main Street America, 1940–1961Maria GagoChapter 8Statistics and Emancipation from New Deal America to Guerrilla Warfare in Guinea-BissauTiago SaraivaChapter 9Security versus Sovereignty in a Palestinian Seed BankCourtney FulliloveChapter 10How Data Cross Borders: Globalizing Plant Knowledge through Transnational Data Management and Its Epistemic EconomySabina LeonelliConclusionDecentering the Global NorthJohn KrigeAcknowledgmentsContributorsIndex

“Over the past decade, Krige has positioned himself as one of the foremost scholars investigating the seemingly simple yet, in truth, incredibly intricate and complicated issue of how and why knowledge moves around. Whereas his previous work focused on the power, utility and impact of scientific networks during the twentieth century, particularly in the nuclear field, Krige has now moved into the even broader field of knowledge mobility itself. . . . Similar to its predecessor, [Knowledge Flows in a Global Age] once again challenges us to rethink our taken-for-granted assumptions of how and why knowledge moves around, and what factors prevent it from doing so (or, more directly, what factors may deny the designation of knowledge in the first place). It is, for this reason, a richly stimulating collection the significance of which, true to its transnational outlook, transgresses standard disciplinary assumptions, disrupts interpretive frameworks and asks us to reconsider our own roles as academics in these processes.”