A transnational history of Europe's critical infrastructure
By: edited by Per Högselius, Anique Hommels, Arne Kaijser, and Erik van der Vleuten
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: 2014
Place of publication: Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire
Language: eng
Number of pages: 313
ISBN-13: 9781137358721
Subjects: Infrastructure (Economics); History; Transnationalism; National security; Security measures; Emergency management; Economic conditions; Social conditions; Politics and government
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Europe's critical infrastructure and its vulnerabilities : promises, problems, paradoxes / Erik van der Vleuten, Per Högselius, Anique Hommels, and Arne Kaijser; title: Part I. Connecting a continent; title: Natural gas in Cold War Europe : the making of a critical infrastructure / Per Högselius, Anna Åberg, and Arne Kaijser; title: Inventing electrical Europe : interdependencies, borders, vulnerabilities / Vincent Lagendijk and Erik van der Vleuten; title: Part II. Negotiating neighbors; title: An uneasy alliance : negotiating infrastructures at the Finnish-Soviet border / Karl-Erik Michelsen; title: Bulgarian power relations : the making of a Balkan power hub / Ivan Tchalakov, Tihomir Mitev, and Ivaylo Hristov; title: Border-crossing electrons : critical energy flows to and from Greece / Aristotle Tympas, Stathis Arapostathis, Katerina Vlantoni, and Yiannis Garyfallos; title: Part III. Coping with complexity; title: EUROCONTROL : negotiating transnational air transportation in Europe / Lars Heide; title: Connections, criticality, and complexity : Norwegian electricity in its European context / Lars Thue; title: In case of breakdown : dreams and dilemmas of a common European standard for emergency communication / Anique Hommels and Eefje Cleophas; title: Conclusion; title: Europe's infrastructure vulnerabilities : comparisons and connections / Anique Hommels, Per Hogselius, Arne Kaijser, and Erik van der Vleuten.