El. knyga: Integrating Europe's Infrastructure Networks: The Political Economy of the European Infrastructure System

Colin Turner pays due attention to the financial and political challenges of massive transport projects as well as to the emergence of soft infrastructures and the role of the market in driving their development. Particularly novel, given the rise of the information society, is the focus on political efforts to create a common information area and the crucial role that digital infrastructures now play, considering how norms and standards are managed, and how issues of state control and sovereignty play out. A timely publication looking close up at a fascinating and complex subject that is at the intersection of regionalism, transport planning, geography, security, finance and political economy, technology studies, multi-level governance, EU politics and integration. -- Paul Stephenson, Maastricht University, the Netherlands Colin Turners insightful new book not only provides a comprehensive understanding of how Europes infrastructures have integrated over recent times but also useful new conceptual approaches and analytical frameworks for understanding the dynamics and development of infrastructure itself. I highly recommended it for anyone wanting to know more on the subject. -- Christopher M. Dent, Edge Hill University, UK Over more than twenty years Colin Turner has made a number of incisive and insightful contributions on infrastructure, and this book is another. Its analysis and observations on the concept and practice of regional integration are especially valuable at a moment in which, culturally and politically, disintegration is en vogue. -- Andrew, Mearman, University of Leeds, UK