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

ISBN-13: 9780415622325 / Angielski / Miękka / 2012 / 272 str.

Natalie Bormann; Michael Sheehan

Opis

What challenges does outer space pose for political theory? This volume analyzes the strategies and policies that promote space activities, placing these strategies and policies within a broader theoretical perspective. The book highlights how activities in outer space are always connected to earth-bound practices.

Spis treści

Introduction  1. Unbundling Sovereignty, Territory and the State in Outer Space: Two Approaches  2. Space Weapons – Dream, Nightmare or Reality?  3. Critical Astropolitics: The Geopolitics of Space Control and the Transformation of State Sovereignty  4. The Spaces between Us: The Gendered Politics of Outer Space  5. The Lost Dimension: A Spatial Reading of US Weaponisation of Space  6. Haunted Dreams: Critical Theory, Technology and the Militarization of Space  7. The (power) Politics of Space: The US Astropolitical Discourse on Global Dominance in the War on Terror  8. Between Blind Faith and Deep Scepticism: The ‘Weaponisation of Space’ and the Canadian Debate on Ballistic Missile Defence  9. The Mice that Soar: Smaller States Perspectives on Space Weaponisation  10. Profaning the Path to the Sacred: The Militarisation of the European Space Programme  11. Neo-Realism and the Galileo and GPS Negotiations  12. Pol Sci-Fi 101: Lessons from Science Fiction Television for Global and Outer Space Politics