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.
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 ...
Space and Defense Policy
1st Edition
Edited
By Damon Coletta, Frances T. Pilch
December 04, 2009
This edited volume introduces the reader to the role of space in military and defense strategy, and outlines some of the major foreign and domestic actors in the space arena, as well as constraints of law and treaties on activities in space. It also addresses science and technology as they relate ...
The International Politics of Space
1st Edition
By Michael Sheehan
December 27, 2007
The year 2007 saw the fiftieth anniversary of the Space Age, which began with the launching of Sputnik by the Soviet Union in October 1957. Space is crucial to the politics of the postmodern world. It has seen competition and cooperation in the past fifty years, and is in danger of becoming a ...