Strategy and Policy for Trans-European Networks

Johnson, Debra; Turner, Colin

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“…There are three types of policies grouped under the rubric of Trans‐European Networks (TENs): transport, energy, and communications. TENs were created under the Maastricht Treaty to promote the construction of combined infrastructures, considered vital for the creation of the internal market and economic and social cohesion (Johnson and Turner ; Nugent ; Schot ). The rationale for this policy synergy has been related to the need to link markets by modern and efficient infrastructure and to further liberalization of the three sectors (European Commission , ).…”

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Salience and Complexity in Supranational Policymaking: The Case of Subnational Interests

Neshkova

2012

Governance

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This study examined whether Gormley's insights about the effects of public salience and technical complexity on the patterns of participation in the regulatory process have explanatory power in an international setting. Specifically, I tracked 60 legislative proposals initiated by the European Commission and estimated the change made by the supranational technocrats in response to the requests of subnational politicians. I found support for the theoretical propositions about the differentiated effect of salience and complexity on political and administrative actors. Consistent with the notion of bureaucratic expertise, the Commission is less responsive when the policy issues require expertise to be tackled efficiently. Although the European Union has been pursuing various mechanisms to democratize its policy process, the technical character of supranational regulation precludes the broader public and elected politicians from assuming a larger role and bureaucracy will continue to be a major player in the international arena.

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Salience and Complexity in Supranational Policymaking: The Case of Subnational Interests

Neshkova

2012

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“…Other alternatives such as the Atlas method (World Bank) or the utilization of the ECU have been discarded because successive EU enlargements might influence them and therefore might cause bias in our findings. 5 See Johnson and Turner (2007) for a discussion of the development of TENs.…”

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Financing utilities: How the role of the European Investment Bank shifted from regional development to making markets

2014

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“…More than one‐third of all EIB and European Bank for Reconstruction and Development funds go to energy and transport infrastructures under construction in Turkey. As in the case of the EU (Johnson and Turner :42), such energy infrastructures are valued not so much to generate economic growth on their own but to provide logistics for growth. Such large‐scale infrastructural projects and the networks into which they fit will soon turn Turkey into a land with tight connections to and interconnections with the East and the West, a land whose “power in the globalizing world makes itself felt with its ease of access” (Ministry of Transport, Maritime Affairs, and Communications :7) and whose political elites deem it to be “the most eastern of the West, and the most western of the East” (former Turkish EU minister, 61st Meeting of EU–Turkey Joint Parliamentary Committee, March 31, 2009).…”

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“…Through all this talk of brotherhood, friendly foes, and the indecision of foreign counterparts, Turkish negotiators have one common objective in energy talks: to turn their country into an energy hub, a “geographically fixed [point] on a network infrastructure that allows for the collection, co‐ordination and distribution of tangible and intangible products around the network” (Johnson and Turner :17). Once different pipelines run through its territory, Turkey will become an energy hub, enabling it to trade, price, and control energy products that cross its territory freely and without outside interference—or so Turkish authorities hope.…”

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“The most eastern of the West, the most western of the East”: Energy‐transport infrastructures and regional politics of the periphery in Turkey

Fırat

2016

Economic Anthropology

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The construction of railroads, highways, pipelines, tunnels, and bridges is a result of an imagined construction of regions and in return helps solidify such imaginations. Critics of the role of technological advancement in fostering social, economic, political, and cultural integration between centers and peripheries argue that many such projects remain as political dreamscapes instead of serving as successful examples of transregional integration. Nevertheless, new political dreamscapes give way to new client networks from the European peripheries, solidified by real material networks of energy and transport. Currently promoting itself as a bridge and energy hub between Europe and Asia, Turkey champions such infrastructural developmentalism. This article examines how some political dreamscapes of energy-transport infrastructures, which are imagined to connect Eurasia to Europe via Turkey, relate to their actual construction. At a time when hopes for Turkey's political integration with its surrounding regions have waned, I critically interrogate whether economic integration by means of material infrastructures for energy and transport can substitute for political forms of integration. Keywords Energy; Infrastructure; Regionalism; Transport; TurkeyThe construction of railroads, highways, pipelines, tunnels, and bridges may arise from a specific imagination of integrated or networked regions. They may also create or intensify real regional networks and integration-albeit often in nonlinear, contradictory ways. Currently promoting itself as a bridge and energy hub between Europe, Asia, and the Levant, the Turkish government champions infrastructural integration to further its position as strong trade partner and political ally of states in these regions. Turkey's economic and politicocultural policies toward former Soviet "Turkic" Republics, its imperial history in the Middle East and North Africa, and, more recently, its pending membership in the European Union (EU) are seen by political and economic elites from the greater region as opportunities. Nevertheless, as in imperial, colonial, and modernizing times alike, tensions and conflicts are inherent in infrastructural regionalism as a project, not the least because infrastructure development is seen both as an all-inclusive solution and as an all-pervading problem (Edwards et al. 2009:365). This article looks into infrastructural regionalism, or region building by means of infrastructural development projects, in Turkey, where large-scale infrastructures currently mediate the exchange of energy commodities (human labor and fossil fuels) between sources from its East and markets to its West.The study of infrastructure is important from an anthropological perspective because infrastructure materializes energy flows in ways that make power struggles and economic inequalities apparent. Here I explore several energy-transport infrastructure projects, including one subsea tunnel and several pipelines, which I take as materialized power, to chart region-building effor...

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Strategy and Policy for Trans-European Networks

Cited by 12 publications

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Salience and Complexity in Supranational Policymaking: The Case of Subnational Interests

Salience and Complexity in Supranational Policymaking: The Case of Subnational Interests

Financing utilities: How the role of the European Investment Bank shifted from regional development to making markets

“The most eastern of the West, the most western of the East”: Energy‐transport infrastructures and regional politics of the periphery in Turkey

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