April 2019
Is a military space force justified?
...jamming and other electronic or cyber measures are currently operational, conducted and controlled from locations on Earth. A military threat posed by these Earth-based systems can be defended against by activities on the planet without the placement...
January 2023
Original Sin - Power, Technology and War in Outer Space
... secretive and niche area of expertise to a much wider audience, and show what the growth of technological infrastructures, military power and economic competition in space means for the practice and study of International Relations (IR) today. Space...
September 2016
URBOCOP: saving planet Earth
... In seeking ways to protect Earth from military and non-military space danger I see international integration as ... almost monthly. The impact of such celestial bodies on military or civil nuclear facilities, chemical plants, toxic waste depositories...
January 2021
Spacepower and international relations
... mostly felt via propaganda, techno-nationalist symbolism and incremental scientific returns with little bearing on terrestrial military and economic power. In the 21st century, spacepower in Earth orbit mostly resembles the proximate, contested and...
October 2019
Space-based cybersecurity challenges for NATO
... security are considered lax: this also applies to those around cybersecurity. The Manual on International Law Applicable to Military Uses of Outer Space (MILAMOS) was launched in 2016 through a civil society initiative, aiming to clarify the rules...
May 2017
Will international space law struggle to remain relevant?
... a given, notwithstanding that many regard this as flying in the face of the Outer Space Treaty. The ‘non-military versus non-aggressive’ debate regarding the ‘peaceful purposes’ doctrine in its Article IV is a long-redundant argument in practical...
