June 2022
Military space – how worried should we be?
...space programmes. Fresh room must be found on bookshelves for its rapidly-expanding literature, like Bleddyn Bowen’s War in Space: Strategy, Spacepower, Geopolitics, and the most engaging recent title, Militarizing Outer Space: Astroculture, Dystopia...
May 2020
Iran - emerging space state or threat to world peace?
... technological development, training and infrastructure development. When the war with Iraq broke out, the Iranian military lacked almost... ballistic missile (BM) technology since the Second World War and that several have converted BMs into space ...
August 2016
Are the days of innovation in global space over - or just beginning?
...debt. Innovation and inspiration promote technological advance and, in terms of military interventions, are precipitated by war. The Cold War was a time of vastly increased military spending and accelerated technological advancement. From the closing...
September 2016
Co-operating in space transcends national identity
... which is open to participation of the other European countries. “We have,” concluded the French minister, “to not only make war unthinkable but also physically impossible.” Space is not only defined by its physical characteristics but also by its...
March 2015
Russia and safe space initiatives
...West, there is a lot of talk of a risk of a new Cold War. This scenario is dangerous but hardly realistic. Russia, for its part, is fully ...arms race. One of the worst elements of the Cold War was the arms race between the Soviet Union and the ...
August 2016
Space stations - drivers of cooperation
... be seen as a ‘residue’ of the World War 2 and Cold War eras when competition in outer space rather than international ...of Westphalia, which signalled the end of the great 30 year war. Despite the current efforts of law-makers, what applies on ...
