February 2021
On the nature of spacepower
... a secondary, littoral and contestable realm like coastal waters and oceans have been for continental powers.” Bleddyn Bowen (below) and Everett Dolman (right). Geopolitical implications “For Earth-based politics outer space is a secondary, littoral...
January 2021
Spacepower and international relations
... have been removed, has been edited and amended for standalone publication. About the author Dr Bleddyn Bowen is a Lecturer in International Relations at the University of Leicester, an expert in strategy, space warfare and the military uses...
June 2022
Military space – how worried should we be?
... its lunar programme for the time being. The rapidly expanding literature on the militarisation of space includes Bleddyn Bowen’s War in Space: Strategy, Spacepower, Geopolitics, which applies strategic theory to outer space and draws out the...
January 2023
Original Sin - Power, Technology and War in Outer Space
...amended for standalone publication. About the author Dr Bleddyn Bowen is Associate Professor of International Relations at the ... space policy in a variety of academic journals. Dr Bowen frequently appears in media items on space policy and advises...
24 June 2020
US steps up space weaponisation rhetoric
... There are so many ways you can interpret it,” says Bleddyn Bowen, lecturer in international relations at the University of Leicester in ... weapons reside on Earth.” Sticking to the facts, Bowen suggests, could be more effective: “You can still...
