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Intro -- Preface -- Contents -- Abbreviations -- List of Figures -- List of Tables -- Chapter 1: Introduction: History and Politics of Big Science in Europe -- Bibliography -- Chapter 2: What Kind of Europe for European Big Science? -- 2.1 The Other Europe -- 2.1.1 Technology -- 2.1.2 Spatiality -- 2.1.3 Politics -- 2.2 What Role for the European Economic Union (EEC) and the European Union (EU)? -- Bibliography -- Chapter 3: History and Science of Research with Synchrotron Radiation -- Bibliography -- Chapter 4: Founding the European Synchrotron Radiation Facility (ESRF), 1977-1988 -- 4.1 Origins of the ESRF -- 4.2 Intergovernmental Arrangements -- 4.3 Putting the ESRF in Place -- 4.4 The Role of France and Germany -- 4.4.1 "Embedded Bilateralism" -- 4.4.2 National Agendas in France and Germany -- 4.5 Towards a Convention for the ESRF -- 4.6 Concluding Discussion -- Bibliography -- ESRF Archive, Grenoble, France -- Archives Nationales de France, Paris, France -- Bundesarchiv, Koblenz, Germany -- Legal/Governmental Documents -- Literature -- Chapter 5: Establishing the European X-Ray Free-Electron Laser (European XFEL), 1992-2009 -- 5.1 The Transformation of DESY -- 5.2 The TESLA Proposal for a Linear Collider -- 5.3 From the Free-Electron Laser at the TESLA Test Facility to FLASH -- 5.4 Political Commitment to the European XFEL -- 5.5 Foreign Partners and In-Kind Contributions -- 5.6 The Role of Russia -- 5.6.1 German-Russian Collaborations in Science -- 5.6.2 Nanotechnology, Big Politics and the European XFEL -- 5.7 Towards a Convention -- 5.8 Concluding Discussion -- Bibliography -- Bundesarchiv, Koblenz, Germany -- DESY Archive, Hamburg, Germany (Chronological Order) -- Legal/Governmental Documents (Chronological Order) -- References -- Miscellaneous -- Chapter 6: The Other Europe of Big Science: Historical Dynamics and Contemporary Tendencies.

"This thought-provoking book expands on the notion that Big Science is not the only term to describe and investigate particularly large research projects, scientific collaborations and facilities. It investigates the significant overlap between Big Science and Research Infrastructures (RIs) in a European context since the early twenty-first century. Contributions to this innovative book not only augment the study of Big Science with new perspectives, but also launch the study of RIs as a promising new line of inquiry. Chapters testify to a generational shift that is taking place in this field, amending and complementing prior analyses of Big Science. Advancing our knowledge, this interdisciplinary book explores how Big Science and RIs can be categorized, how the politics around them can be understood, and how they relate to the surrounding science and research policy landscape of Europe. Big Science and Research Infrastructures in Europe will be of value to students and scholars interested in science and innovation policy across sociology, economics, management and political science. Policymakers, science administrators and operators of RIs will also benefit from the critical insights provided"--

Abstract
Intergovernmental science organizations (IGSOs) address many challenges of the 21st century. Several countries of the Global South have joined established IGSOs or have created new ones. Yet we know little about their interests in IGSOs. Our study addresses this blind spot by investigating which objectives Southern actors pursue in IGSOs and under which conditions they are likely to achieve their objectives. Using insights from three strands of literature, we compare four IGSOs with Southern participation: the European Organization for Nuclear Research, the International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor, the Square Kilometer Array, and the African Lightsource. We show that countries of the Global South pursue a multitude of political and scientific objectives in IGSOs, ranging from capacity-building to casting off political isolation. Moreover, we demonstrate that Southern countries have varying chances of attaining these objectives, depending on their scientific community, domestic politics, industrial capacities and in some cases geographic location as well as an IGSO's maturity.