January 2023
Original Sin - Power, Technology and War in Outer Space
... kind is political. Recognising the impacts of space on people, societies and polities, good and bad, is political analysis. Astropolitics therefore looks at the ‘why’, ‘should’ and ‘so what’ kind of questions that space activities pose, not the...
January 2021
Spacepower and international relations
... by cyclically debating whether the United States should deploy weapons in orbit at the expense of every other aspect of astropolitics and spacepower. It is a fact that high-end technological capabilities are diffusing away from the United States...
28 May 2016
Igor Ashurbeyli proposes armed space platform to defend planet Earth - URBOCOP
...from around the world he said that a new international approach to space, which he dubbed ‘astropolitics’, would be required to bring this concept to reality. Astropolitics would also be needed to deal with other potential issues such as defining who...
27 May 2016
Igor Ashurbeyli proposes armed space platform to defend planet Earth - URBOCOP
...from around the world he said that a new international approach to space, which he dubbed ‘astropolitics’, would be required to bring this concept to reality. Astropolitics would also be needed to deal with other potential issues such as defining who...
September 2016
URBOCOP: saving planet Earth
... boundaries. This kind of defensive platform will require a new approach to international politics which I term ‘astropolitics’, something which would need to encompass not just major aspects of international relationships but legal matters on a much...
October 2017
Asgardia celebrates its first birthday
... preservation of planet Earth and ultimately the human species. Our legal approach is to give precedence to the new ‘astropolitics’ over conventional global politics, and the space mission philosophy will start with the launch of the...
