基础设施状态

在本书的核心核心，是各国从事基础设施作为保护和加强其领土的手段。通过将基础设施定位为系统，假设所有基础设施都表现出一定程度的相互依赖性。As such, a National Infrastructure System (NIS) is not simply about conventional conceptions of infrastructure based on those that support economic activity (i.e. energy, transport and information) but also about broader hard and soft structures that both enable and are supported by the aforementioned economic infrastructures. Consequently, this book offers an ambitious holistic view on the form of NIS arguing that the infrastructural mandate requires a conception of the state that encapsulates themes from both the competition and the welfare states in infrastructure provision.