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9780203882023

Securing Outer Space: International Relations Theory and the Politics of Space

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  • ISBN13:

    9780203882023

  • ISBN10:

    0203882024

  • Copyright: 2009-01-30
  • Publisher: Taylor & Francis
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Summary

This edited volume analyses a number of controversial policies and strategies relating to Space activities, and to place these in a broader theoretical perspective. The book reveals the relationship between activities in Outer Space and terrestrial international relations.

Table of Contents

Introduction - Natalie Bormann and Michael Sheehan
Unbundling sovereignty, territory and the state in outer space: Two approaches
Space weapons - Dream, nightmare or reality?
Critical astropolitics: The geopolitics of space control and the transformation of state sovereignty
The spaces between us: The gendered politics of outer space
The lost dimension: A spatial reading of US weaponisation of space
Haunted dreams: Critical theory, technology and the militarization of space
The (power) politics of space: the US astropolitical discourse on global dominance in the War on Terror
Between blind faith and deep scepticism: The 'weaponisation of space' and the Canadian debate on ballistic missile defence
The mice that soar: Smaller states perspectives on space weaponisation
Profaning the path to the sacred: The militarisation of the European space programme
Neo-Realism and the Galileo and GPS Negotiations
Pol Sci-Fi 101: Lessons from science fiction television for global and outer space politics
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