January 2021
Spacepower and international relations
...a ‘space war’ - there is only war A continuing debate in international relations (IR) is whether the United States can still be considered a hegemon ... sought to join the ‘Space Club’ of international relations, from the Cold War onwards, with the USA...
February 2021
On the nature of spacepower
... to ‘forum-shop’ to attain space capability. The result is that spacepower ‘muddies the waters of polarity’ in international relations, by reducing the dependence of countries on the US. The growing dependence of all states on space technology also...
March 2018
Enabling private sector success in space - SGAC perspective
... its effect on NASA’s Space Launch System (SLS). About the authors Lauren Napier has a BS in Communications and a MA in International Relations. Originally from the US, she has spent the past seven years living in Europe. She has been...
July 2017
Rapidly evolving space industry needs faster UN response
...Bystrica, Slovakia. His doctoral research at the Security Studies Department of the Faculty of Political Science and International Relations focuses on contemporary trends and dynamics in the global space sector. He is chairman of an NGO Slovak Space...
June 2014
In search of strategic stability
... armed with the most destructive weaponry in the history of mankind; and yet this guaranteed an unprecedented stability in international relations. From the start of the 1960s, nuclear missiles marked the line which the adversaries would not...
August 2016
Are the days of innovation in global space over - or just beginning?
... an incredibly important factor in the cultural imperialism that promotes social and political hegemony In terms of international relations, we might discuss relational power - the power one has directly over another, or structural power - the power...
