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...
January 2023
Original Sin - Power, Technology and War in Outer Space
... and not necessarily something that happens for purely selfless reasons. Though, looking at the scholarly field of International Relations, it does not feel like we are living in a space age. Humanities and social science research on space remains...
April 2024
Agencia Espacial Española – Spain’s future assurance
...its weight, so I was pleased to meet up at the Small Satellites & Services International Forum in Malaga in February with Carlos García Sacristán, head of international relations for the recently formed Spanish Space Agency (Agencia Espacial Española...
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...
November 2021
Space in support of sustainable development
... governance framework in LEO. She is also a board member of the Just Space Alliance. Lauren has an MA in International Relations from Webster University Vienna and a BA in Communications from the University of North Florida. She was a representative...
