| 英文摘要 |
In most countries' definitions, the critical infrastructure (CI) is a collection of indispensable utilities and buildings or system that provide an essential support for economic and social well-being, for public security and for the functioning of key government responsibilities. This paper focuses on the historical formation of Taiwan's critical infrastructure and proposes an approach of techno-politics to illustrate its development transformation. Taiwan's critical infrastructure must be analyzed in its unique historical and political-economic context, as the paper argues, the formation of Taiwan's critical infrastructure can be seen a“process of national boundary delineation”in Taiwan. This paper first explores the policy formation of critical infrastructure in global context, such as United State, EU and Japan. Secondly, it depicts the policy value and thinking shift of Taiwan's critical infrastructure during the different historical periods. Thirdly, I show the core argument of this paper is that Taiwan's critical infrastructure simultaneously shape and is shaped by (in other words, co-construct) the engineering of“nation building”. However, both of the above in Taiwan still exist in in a dynamic and uncertain situation characterized as“unfinished”. |