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The year 2007 will see the 50th anniversary of the Space Age, which
began with the launching of Sputnik by the Soviet Union in October
1957. Since that time, the development of space technology has
revolutionised many aspects of life on Earth, from satellite
television to mobile phones, the internet and micro-electronics. It
has also helped to bring about a revolution in the use of military
force by the most powerful states.
Space is crucial to the politics of the postmodern world. It has
seen competition and cooperation in the past fifty years, and is in
danger of becoming a battlefield in the next fifty. The
International Politics of Space is the first book to bring these
crucial themes together and provide a clear and vital picture of
how politically important space has become, and what its
exploitation might mean for all our futures.
Michael Sheehan analyses the space programmes of the United
States, Russia, China, India and the European Space Agency, and
explains how central space has become to issues of war and peace,
international law, justice and international development, and
cooperation between the worlds leading states. It highlights the
significance of China and India's commitment to space, and explains
how the theories and concepts we use to describe and explain space
are fundamental to the possibility of avoiding conflict in space in
the future.
This ground-breaking book will be of great interest to students
of international relations, space politics and security
studies.
This title was first published in 2000. This series brings together
significant journal articles appearing in the field of comparative
politics over the past 30 years. The aim is to render accessible to
teachers, researchers and students, an extensive range of essays to
provide a basis for understanding the established terrain and new
ground. This volume introduces the undergraduate to a significant
body of the periodical literature on the subject of national and
international security.
The challenges that space poses for political theory are profound.
Yet until now, the exploration and utilization of space has
generally reflected - but not challenged - the political patterns
and impulses which characterized twentieth-century politics and
International Relations. This edited volume analyses a number of
controversial policies, and contentious strategies which have
promoted space activities under the rubric of exploration and
innovation, militarization and weaponization, colonization and
commercialization. It places these policies and strategies in
broader theoretical perspective in two key ways. Firstly, it
engages in a reading of the discourses of space activities:
exposing their meaning-producing practices; uncovering the
narratives which convey certain space strategies as desirable,
inevitable and seamless. Secondly, the essays suggest ways of
understanding, and critically engaging with, the effects of
particular space policies. The essays here seek to 'bring back
space' into the realm of International Relations discourse, from
which it has been largely removed, marginalized and silenced. The
various chapters do this by highlighting how activities in outer
space are always connected to earth-bound practices and
performances of the every day. Securing Outer Space will be of
great interest to students of space power, critical security
studies and IR theory.
The challenges that space poses for political theory are
profound. Yet until now, the exploration and utilization of space
has generally reflected - but not challenged - the political
patterns and impulses which characterized twentieth-century
politics and International Relations. This edited volume analyses a
number of controversial policies, and contentious strategies which
have promoted space activities under the rubric of exploration and
innovation, militarization and weaponization, colonization and
commercialization. It places these policies and strategies in
broader theoretical perspective in two key ways. Firstly, it
engages in a reading of the discourses of space activities:
exposing their meaning-producing practices; uncovering the
narratives which convey certain space strategies as desirable,
inevitable and seamless. Secondly, the essays suggest ways of
understanding, and critically engaging with, the effects of
particular space policies.
The essays here seek to 'bring back space' into the realm of
International Relations discourse, from which it has been largely
removed, marginalized and silenced. The various chapters do this by
highlighting how activities in outer space are always connected to
earth-bound practices and performances of the every day. Securing
Outer Space will be of great interest to students of space power,
critical security studies and IR theory.
The year 2007 will see the 50th anniversary of the Space Age, which
began with the launching of Sputnik by the Soviet Union in October
1957. Since that time, the development of space technology has
revolutionised many aspects of life on Earth, from satellite
television to mobile phones, the internet and micro-electronics. It
has also helped to bring about a revolution in the use of military
force by the most powerful states.
Space is crucial to the politics of the postmodern world. It has
seen competition and cooperation in the past fifty years, and is in
danger of becoming a battlefield in the next fifty. The
International Politics of Space is the first book to bring these
crucial themes together and provide a clear and vital picture of
how politically important space has become, and what its
exploitation might mean for all our futures.
Michael Sheehan analyses the space programmes of the United
States, Russia, China, India and the European Space Agency, and
explains how central space has become to issues of war and peace,
international law, justice and international development, and
cooperation between the worlds leading states. It highlights the
significance of China and India's commitment to space, and explains
how the theories and concepts we use to describe and explain space
are fundamental to the possibility of avoiding conflict in space in
the future.
This ground-breaking book will be of great interest to students
of international relations, space politics and security
studies.
This title was first published in 2000. This series brings together
significant journal articles appearing in the field of comparative
politics over the past 30 years. The aim is to render accessible to
teachers, researchers and students, an extensive range of essays to
provide a basis for understanding the established terrain and new
ground. This volume introduces the undergraduate to a significant
body of the periodical literature on the subject of national and
international security.
Michael Sheehan examines the meanings given to the balance of power over the centuries, providing an understanding of the meanings of the power principle and the key thinkers who have influenced its development.
Michael Sheehan provides a masterly survey of the varied positions
that scholars have adopted in interpreting "security", one of the
most contested terms in international relations, and asks whether a
synthesis is possible that both widens and deepens our
understanding of the concept. Sheehan begins by outlining the
classical realist approach of Morgenthau and Carr and the ideas of
their neorealist heirs. He then explores how the economic security
approach embraces both defense economics and human security from
poverty and hunger; and how environmental security links
environment and security in a fundamental challenge to the
international political hierarchy. Next, tackling the various
postpositivist perspectives on security, all of which stem from
worldviews fundamentally different from that of realism, he
explains the range of feminist thought on security, the ideas of
the critical security school, and the main concerns of postmodern
security theory. In conclusion, revealing his own interpretation of
security, he makes the case for a postpositivist conception that
links human emancipation, justice, and peace.
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