Trans-European Networks

Comment by James Turner Johnson

“…The problem of translation is always hard to overcome (though I think Alasdair MacIntyre overstates how hard it is [MacIntyre 1988, 398]). In the project that John Kelsay and I jointly directed and in the two books that came out of it (Johnson andKelsay 1990 andKelsay andJohnson 1991), we quite consciously imposed the just war categories of thought on Islamic tradition. I still think that was worthwhile in that particular context, since our aim was to make it possible for people already knowledgeable in just war tradition to begin to bring into focus the positions defined in Islamic tradition.…”

The governance of polycentric national infrastructure systems: Evidence from the UK National Infrastructure Plan

“…Such processes reveal that – whilst hard infrastructures are territorially fixed – the activities that occur over them (or affect their ability to act as infrastructure cannot be reducible) to that point in space where they are used. In addition, they identify that the effects of an NIS are not spatially specific (Alonso-Villar, 2005; Bougheas et al., 2003; Johnson and Turner, 1997, 2005; Massey, 1993). This covers infrastructure that are dis-located but which can (or have the potential to) impact on each other through both implicit and explicit channels subject to the lag effects created by the degree of dislocation.…”

“…telecoms, energy and transport) within the borders of a state but which exhibit globality (see below). This globality recognises that NIS are embedded within (and interact with) the international economic system (Johnson and Turner, 1997). Integral to the operation and evolution of the NIS is the spatial and functional complex relationships and interdependencies that exist within and across the composite infrastructures (Estache and Fay, 2007; Larner and Walters, 2004).…”