The Oxford Handbook of Space Security

by Pekkanen, Saadia M.; Blount, P.J.

• ISBN13: 9780197582671
• ISBN10: 0197582672
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2024-01-19
• Publisher: Oxford University Press

Summary

Space security is a complex assemblage of societal risks and benefits that result from space-based capabilities and is currently in a period of transformation as innovative processes are rapidly changing the underlying assumptions about stability in the space domain. New space-based technologies are emerging at an accelerating rate, and both established and emerging states are actively and openly pursuing weapons to negate other states' space capabilities. Many states have set up dedicated military space units in order to preemptively counter such threats. In addition, a number of major private companies with a transnational presence are also investing heavily in extraterrestrially-based technology.

The Oxford Handbook of Space Security focuses on the interaction between space technology and international and national security processes from an international relations (IR) theory perspective. Saadia M. Pekkanen and P.J. Blount have gathered a group of key scholars who bring a range of analytical and theoretical IR perspectives to assessing space security. The volume theorizes the development and governance of space security and analyzes the specific pressure points currently challenging that regime. Further, it builds an analytically-eclectic understanding of space security, infused with the theory and practice of IR and advances analysis of key states and regions as well as specific capabilities. Space security is currently in a period of great transition as new technologies are emerging and states openly pursue counterspace capabilities. Bringing together scholarship from a group of leading experts, this volume explains how these contemporary changes will affect future security in, from, and through space.

Applying lessons from international relations theory and practice and drawing from a range of social science subfields, the Handbook is a definitive work for scholars who study the topic of space security.

Author Biography

Saadia M. Pekkanen is the Job and Gertrud Tamaki Endowed Professor at the University of Washington in Seattle. In addition to this appointment in The Henry M. Jackson School of International Studies, she is Adjunct Professor in the Department of Political Science and Adjunct Professor at the School of Law, where she also teaches courses. At the University of Washington, she is the founding director of the Space Law, Data and Policy Program (SLDP) and the founding director of the Qualitative Multi-Method Program (QUAL).

P.J. Blount is a Lecturer in Law in the School of Law and Politics at Cardiff University. He is the author of Reprogramming the World: Cyberspace and the Geography of Global Order (2019), an editor of the Proceedings of the International Institute of Space Law, and, formerly, the Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Space Law. He currently serves as the Executive Secretary of the International Institute of Space Law and is a licensed attorney with the State Bar of Georgia.

Table of Contents

Overview
Chapter 1: International Relations Theory and the Evolution of Peaceful Purposes in Outer Space
-Saadia M. Pekkanen and P.J. Blount
Chapter 2: A Short History of Space Security
-Stephen Buono and Aaron Bateman
Chapter 3: Legal Frameworks for Space Security
-Setsuko Aoki

Theoretical Approaches and Perspectives
Chapter 4: The Discourse of Space Securitization
-P.J. Blount
Chapter 5: Critical Space Security: Space is Not Special
-Carl Graefe and Raymond Duvall
Chapter 6: Commercial Space Peace Theory: Economic Interdependence and Conflict in Space
-Wendy Whitman-Cobb
Chapter 7: Soft Power and Cooperation for Space Security
-Pavel Luzin
Chapter 8: Techno-Security Space Innovation
-Tai Ming Cheung and Yasuhito Fukushima
Chapter 9: The Interplay of Domestic Policy and International Space Security
-Xiaodan Wu
Chapter 10: The Next Frontier: Strategic Theory for the Space Domain
-Tim Sweijs and Davis Ellison
Chapter 11: Unbundling Threats: Balancing and Alliances in the Space Domain
-Saadia M. Pekkanen
Chapter 12: Deterring Attacks on Space Systems
-Forrest E. Morgan
Chapter 13: Arms Control and the Myth of Peaceful Uses in Outer Space
-Jessica West
Chapter 14: Ethics in Space Security: Virtue and the Future of Cosmopolitanism
-Koji Tachibana

Statecraft and Strategy
Chapter 15: U.S. National Security Interests in Space
-Scott Pace
Chapter 16: Neoclassical Realism as a Framework for Understanding China's Rise as a Space Power
-Kevin Pollpeter
Chapter 17: Russia's Integrated Statecraft in the Space Domain
-Florian Vidal
Chapter 18: Japan's Grand Strategy in Outer Space
-Saadia M. Pekkanen
Chapter 19: India's Space Program: Its Evolution and Future Trajectory
-Rajeswari Pillai Rajagopalan and Šumit Ganguly
Chapter 20: French Space Security in Historical Perspective: Balancing Strategic Autonomy and Cooperation
-Xavier Pasco
Chapter 21: UK Space Policy: A Quest for Coherence
-Mark Hilborne
Chapter 22: The European Union's Deepening Engagement in Space Security: Hedging Through Strategic Autonomy
-Tomas Hrozensky and Mathieu Bataille
Chapter 23: Perspectives on Membership in the Space Club in West Asia: Israel and UAE
-Deganit Paikowsky
Chapter 24: Military Space Strategies and African Realism: Egypt, South Africa, and Nigeria
-Samuel Oyewole
Chapter 25: Space Security in Latin American Perspectives
-Olavo de O. Bittencourt Neto and Jairo Becerra
Chapter 26: Southeast Asia Space Security and Strategy: Development, Drivers, and Dynamics
-Prashanth Parameswaran
Chapter 27: The Dynamics of South Korea's Space Trajectories
-Su-Mi Lee and Hanbeom Jeong
Chapter 28: From Passive to Active Space Powers: Australia and Aotearoa New Zealand
-Matthew Stubbs and Desislava Gancheva

Strategic Implications of Capabilities
Chapter 29: Anti-Satellite and Space Weapons: Risks and Paths to Peace
-Laura Grego
Chapter 30: The Greatest Transformation: How Cyber is Defining Security in the Space Domain
-Larry F. Martinez
Chapter 31: The "AI Wave" in Space Operations: Implications for Future Warfare
-Michael Raska and Malcolm Davis
Chapter 32: Security Dilemma, Debris, and the Future of Space Operations
-Brad Townsend
Chapter 33: Space Sustainability: Balanced Space Security Global Governance
-Guoyu Wang
Chapter 34: Norm-Formation and Space Traffic Management
-P. J. Blount
Chapter 35: Space Resources and Prospects for Contested Governance
-Alanna Krowlikowski and Martin Elvis
Chapter 36: Space-Based Data and Human Security
-Mariel Borowitz
Chapter 37: Enabling National Security Through Space: Intelligence and Communications
-Peter L. Hays and James J. Wirtz
Chapter 38: The State, Development, and Human Security in Space
-Mohamed Amara and Sagee Geetha Sethu
Chapter 39: The Geopolitics of Global Navigation Satellite Systems
-Paul B. Larsen
Chapter 40: Newspace and New Risks in Space Security
-John J. Klein and Nickolas J. Boensch
Chapter 41: Planetary Defense: A Unique Opportunity to Practice Cosmopolitan Security Principles in National Foreign Policies
-Nikola Schmidt

Prospects
Chapter 42: The Future of Global Space Governance
-Natália Archinard
Chapter 43: The Future of Space Security: Assessing the Prospects for Peaceful Outcomes
-James Clay Moltz
Chapter 44: The Future of Cooperation in Space: Irreconcilable Differences?
-Zhou Bo and Wang Guoyu