Collaborative Infrastructure: ‘Self-Consciously’ Assessing State of Preparedness
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Collaborative infrastructure that as much as requires cross-border agreement for two or more nation-states emerges as the new normal in the regional or global scene. Contemporary mood reflects a form of affirmative action where one nation-state’s developmental agenda indispensably or purposively take into account that of another developing nation-state. Self-consciously driven state of preparedness soon characterizes a country’s wherewithal to play host as it can play guest at every cycle of development or contractual arrangement in infrastructure. When all roads lead to 2015, making so-called ASEAN Economic Community inevitable, relevant state policies, new and existing, must blend with regional or global trends that put public interest on the part of government and return on investment on the part of the private sector at an even keel. Heads of host governments as in developing countries recipient of collaborative infrastructure arrangement must act as ‘social planners’ (Hirschman) for there must be certain hitherto underlying mechanisms, not to speak of laws, with characteristic ‘social-scientific regularities’. The lines on a map have become poor indicator of power (Stephenson, 2012) of an otherwise nominally ‘sovereign but impotent government’ (Agnew, 2009). This paper suggests of a new “orbit” around which nation-states gravitate effectively relinquishing the view of a ‘territorialized world’ in favor of a new mindset akin to the free movement of vessels in an ocean. The notion of collaborative infrastructure both propels and compels governments or nation-states to forge regional or international cooperation as the new modus operandi.
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