Bücher der Reihe Space Power and Politics

This book offers an overview of space strategy in the 21st century - the purpose of space strategy is to coordinate, integrate, and prioritize space activities across security, commercial, and civil sectors.

Considers military space strategy within the context of the land and naval strategies of the past. This book shows why many such strategies unintentionally lead to overemphasizing the importance of space-based offensive weaponry and technology. It is of interest to students and scholars of military and strategic studies.

Provides a picture of how politically important space has become, and what its exploitation might mean for our futures. This book analyses the space programmes of the United States, Russia, China, India and the European Space Agency, and explains how central space has become to issues of war and peace and cooperation between the worlds states.

Explains the beginnings and expansion of China's space program, analyzing how China is able to hold such ambitions and how the interaction between technology, politics and economics has influenced the Chinese space program. This volume is aimed at students of space studies, Chinese politics, security studies, and international relations.

This book examines transatlantic politics through an analysis of 60 years of US-European strategic interaction in space.

This book builds a bridge between current research in space policy and contemporary European political studies by addressing developments in European space policy and its significance for European integration.

This volume addresses developments in European space policy and its significance for European integration, using discourse theory as a framework.It seeks to address the developments in European space policy by examining several sensitive security questions linked in general with space activities, on the one hand, and the interplay between space policy and security policy in the European Union (EU) on the other. The book argues that defence and security matters should be studied for a better understanding of space projects in their historical, political, economic, legal and social context.The volume seeks to answer the following key questions:¿ What can space policy contribute to European identity formation and the integration process?¿ What are the interests of member states/EU institutions in space?¿ How is space policy perceived by European institutions, and how have they been engaged in the policy process to promote activity in space?¿ In which ways is the EU engaged in space, in terms of policy areas, e.g. foreign policy, industrial policy, security and defence policies?¿ What is the impact of institutions on the policy-making process in European space policy?This book will be of interest to students of EU policy, space policy, discourse studies and International Relations in general.