Making of Europe's Critical Infrastructure

Per Högselius is Associate Professor at the Division of History of Science, Technology and Environment at the Royal Institute of Technology (KTH), Stockholm, Sweden. His research has focused on international aspects and in particular East-West relations in the history of science, technology, and environment. Most recently he published Red Gas: Russia and the Origins of European Energy Dependence (2013).   Anique Hommels is Associate Professor at the Science, Technology & Society (MUSTS) research group, Maastricht University, the Netherlands. She has previously published Unbuilding Cities: Obduracy in Urban Sociotechnical Change (2005). Her current research focuses on vulnerability in technological cultures, urban disasters, and standardization in emergency communication.   Arne Kaijser is Professor of History of Technology at the Royal Institute of Technology (KTH), Stockholm, Sweden. His main research interests concern infrastructure, institutions, and environment in historical perspective. Together with Erik van der Vleuten he edited Networking Europe: Transnational Infrastructures and the shaping of Europe, 1850-2000 (2006).   Erik van der Vleuten is Professor of History of Technology at Eindhoven University of Technology, the Netherlands, and scientific director of the Foundation for the History of Technology(SHT). In 2013-2015 he chaired the Pan-European research network Tensions of Europe: Technology and the Making of Europe. Erik studies the mutual shaping of infrastructure, societal, and environmental changes.

• General Introduction1. Europe's Critical Infrastructure and its Vulnerabilities: Promises, Problems, Paradoxes; Erik van der Vleuten, Per Högselius, Anique Hommels and Arne KaijserPART I: CONNECTING A CONTINENTIntroduction2. Natural Gas in Cold War Europe: The Making of a Critical Infrastructure; Per Högselius, Anna Åberg, and Arne Kaijser3. Inventing Electrical Europe: Interdependencies, Borders, Vulnerabilities; Vincent Lagendijk and Erik van der VleutenPART II: NEGOTIATING NEIGHBOURS Introduction4. An Uneasy Alliance: Negotiating Infrastructures at the Finnish-Soviet Border; Karl-Erik Michelsen5. Bulgarian Power Relations: The Making of a Balkan Power Hub; Ivan Tchalakov, Tihomir Mitev and Ivaylo Hristov6. Border-Crossing Electrons: Critical Energy Flows to and from Greece; Aristotle Tympas, Stathis Arapostathis, Katerina Vlantoni and Yiannis GaryfallosPART III: COPING WITH COMPLEXITYIntroduction7. EUROCONTROL: Negotiating Transnational Air Transportation in Europe; Lars Heide8. Connections, Criticality, and Complexity: Norwegian Electricity in its European Context; Lars Thue9. In Case of Breakdown: Dreams and Dilemmas of a Common European Standard for Emergency Communication; Anique Hommels and Eefje CleophasConclusion10. Europe's Infrastructure Vulnerabilities: Comparisons and Connections; Anique Hommels, Per Högselius, Arne Kaijser and Erik van derVleutenBibliographyIndex

"Each chapter presents a wealth of information that sheds fascinating light on a crucial yet understudied field. One learns a lot from delving into the empirically rich chapters that pave the way for future research. ... the book deals with a very important yet widely under-researched topic. It is highly relevant for EU scholars working in the fields of energy, telecommunications and air transport, as well as foreign and security policy." (Peter Slominski, Journal of Common Market Studies, Vol. 53 (5), 2015)