Space Power and Politics
About the Book Series
The Space Power and Politics series will provide a forum where space policy and historical issues can be explored and examined in-depth. The series will produce works that examine civil, commercial, and military uses of space and their implications for international politics, strategy, and political economy. This will include works on government and private space programs, technological developments, conflict and cooperation, security issues, and history.
Understanding Threats to Space Systems and Space Assets: Strategic Challenges in The New Space Environment
1st Edition
By Jakub Pražák
September 09, 2025
This book explores the current space threat profile in an increasingly contested, congested, and competitive space environment. This work looks at the conflictual nature of space relations and highlights various issues resulting from great‑power competition in the space domain. This book recognizes...
The Geopolitics of Space Colonization: Future Power Relations in the Inner Solar System
1st Edition
By Bohumil Doboš
January 30, 2025
This book presents a geopolitical analysis of the upcoming human exploration of celestial bodies in the inner solar system by the major space powers. It utilizes a systemic approach to the analysis of political events in space to develop a comprehensive overview of the factors influencing planned ...
The Militarization of European Space Policy
1st Edition
Edited
By Thomas Hoerber, Iraklis Oikonomou
January 30, 2025
This book is focused on militarization as the nucleus of EU space policy and the interrelatedness of European security, industrial competitiveness, and military capabilities in the shaping of this policy. The EU and key member states have increasingly joined the US, China and Russia, among others,...
The Commercialisation of Space: Politics, Economics and Ethics
1st Edition
Edited
By Sarah Lieberman, Harald Köpping Athanasopoulos, Thomas Hoerber
October 07, 2024
This interdisciplinary book examines the impact of the commercialisation of space and the changing outlook of the space sector. Using a framework based around theories of international political economy (IPE), the chapters take on issues relating to the politics, the economics and the ethics of ...
Space Warfare: Strategy, Principles and Policy
2nd Edition
By John J. Klein
September 18, 2024
This book examines military space strategy within the context of the land and naval strategies of the past. This second edition has been updated and revised, with several new chapters included. The book examines competition and conflict in the space domain, including the methods used and sound ...
European Integration and Space Policy: A Growing Security Discourse
1st Edition
Edited
By Thomas Hoerber, Antonella Forganni
August 01, 2022
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, ...
Security and Stability in the New Space Age: The Orbital Security Dilemma
1st Edition
By Brad Townsend
August 01, 2022
This book examines the drivers behind great power security competition in space to determine whether realistic strategic alternatives exist to further militarization. Space is an area of increasing economic and military competition. This book offers an analysis of actions and events indicative of ...
Space Policy in Developing Countries: The Search for Security and Development on the Final Frontier
1st Edition
By Robert Harding
February 01, 2017
This book analyses the rationale and history of space programs in countries of the developing world. Space was at one time the sole domain of the wealthiest developed countries. However, the last couple of decades of the twentieth century and the first decade of the twenty-first century have ...
US Hypersonic Research and Development: The Rise and Fall of 'Dyna-Soar', 1944-1963
1st Edition
By Roy F. Houchin II
May 10, 2013
An essential new account of some of the most valuable research and development in international military history. Roy F. Houchin II shows how the roots of US Air Force hypersonic research and development are grounded in Army Air Force General Henry H. 'Hap' Arnold's identification of the need ...
Transatlantic Space Politics: Competition and Cooperation Above the Clouds
1st Edition
By Sheng-Chih Wang
April 26, 2013
This book examines transatlantic politics through an analysis of 60 years of US-European strategic interaction in space. The significance of space politics for the study of transatlantic relations receives surprisingly little scholarly attention. As a theatre of interaction, transatlantic space ...
Space Strategy in the 21st Century: Theory and Policy
1st Edition
Edited
By Eligar Sadeh
November 28, 2012
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. Without strategy, space activities continue to provide value, but it becomes difficult to ...
Chinese Space Policy: A Study in Domestic and International Politics
1st Edition
By Roger Handberg, Zhen Li
September 10, 2012
This volume explains the beginnings and expansion of China's space program, analyzing how China is now able to hold such ambitions and how the interaction between technology, politics and economics has influenced the Chinese space program. It opens by tracing out the earlier development of the ...