January 2021
Spacepower and international relations
...and its allies, are often lost in general debates on the balance of power in the international system. Distributions of spacepower do not always reflect terrestrial conditions. The past and present of international politics in space requires far more...
February 2021
On the nature of spacepower
... human life clings to the landmasses of Earth and the resources that feed civilisation come from Earth, spacepower by itself may struggle to be decisive, no matter the level of preponderance or hegemony in space by any state or entity in Earth orbit...
January 2023
Original Sin - Power, Technology and War in Outer Space
... strategy, space warfare and the military uses of outer space, and the author of War in Space: Strategy, Spacepower, Geopolitics and several papers on space policy in a variety of academic journals. Dr Bowen frequently appears in media items on space...
June 2022
Military space – how worried should we be?
...literature, like Bleddyn Bowen’s War in Space: Strategy, Spacepower, Geopolitics, and the most engaging recent title, Militarizing... includes Bleddyn Bowen’s War in Space: Strategy, Spacepower, Geopolitics, which applies strategic theory to outer space...
August 2016
High-resolution Earth observation data is changing the character of war
...Middle East countries acquire satellites they are able to take advantage of these strategic and technical attributes of spacepower, provided they can integrate it into their diplomatic, economic and military power. Integration is the most challenging...
24 June 2020
US steps up space weaponisation rhetoric
... Bleddyn Bowen, lecturer in international relations at the University of Leicester in England and author of ‘War in Space: Strategy, Spacepower, & Geopolitics’ out this year from the Edinburgh University Press. “All Russia and China have to do is say...
