Securing Outer Space (eBook, PDF)

International Relations Theory and the Politics of Space
Redaktion: Bormann, Natalie; Sheehan, Michael

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

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.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 272
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. Januar 2009
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781134044849
• Artikelnr.: 42975829

Autorenporträt

Natalie Bormann teaches at the Department of Politics at Northeastern University, Boston, USA. Previously she held a position at the Watson Insititute for International Studies, Brown University. She is the author of National Missile Defence and the Politics of US Identity: A Poststructuralist Critique. Michael Sheehan is Professor of International Relations at the University of Wales, Swansea. His publications include The International Politics of Space; International Security: An Analytical Survey; National and International Security; Balance of Power: History and Theory; The Arms Race; and Arms Control: Theory and Practice.

Inhaltsangabe

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