Privatizing Peace: How Commerce Can Reduce Conflict in Space

ISBN-13: 9780367336240 / Angielski / Twarda / 2020 / 138 str.

Wendy N. Whitman Cobb

Opis

This book explores the privatization of space and its global impact on the future of commerce, peace and conflict. This volume addresses the new rhetoric of space race and weaponization, with a focus on how the costs of potential conflict in space would discourage open conflict and enable global cooperation.

Spis treści

1.  A New Space Craze 2. The Space Environment 3. Logics of Peace 4. The Commercial Space Peace 5. Is it a Trap? Arms Races in Space 6. The Rise of Private Actors 7. Racing into the Future

O autorze

Wendy N. Whitman Cobb is Associate Professor of Strategy and Security Studies at the School of Advanced Air and Space Studies (SAASS), USA.  Dr Whitman Cobb received a BA and MA from the University of Central Florida, USA, in Political Science, and a PhD in Political Science from the University of Florida, USA.  Her research focuses on the political and institutional dynamics of space policy and public opinion of space exploration.  She has published research in Space Policy, Congress and the Presidency, and the Journal of Political Science Education.  Her recent publications include Unbroken Government: Success and the Illusion of Failure in Policymaking (2013); The Politics of Cancer:  Malignant Indifference (2017); The CQ Press Career Guide for Political Science Students (2017); and Political Science Today (2019).  Prior to arriving at SAASS, Dr Whitman Cobb was an Associate Professor of Political Science at the Cameron University in Lawton, Oklahoma, USA (2013–2019).