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...
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...
01 April 2025
The Future of Geography: How Power and Politics in Space will Change Our World
... point (once you realise it) that “China is already the only country operating its own space station… in astropolitical terms, having the only sovereign station is quite a statement”. Ultimately, he thinks that cooperation between China and...
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...
