| Description |
1 online resource (viii, 260 pages) : illustrations |
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Routledge critical security studies series |
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Routledge critical security studies series.
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| Contents |
Unbundling sovereignty, territory and the state in outer space : two approaches / Jill Stuart -- Space weapons-dream, nightmare or reality? / Dave Webb -- Critical astropolitics : the geopolitics of space control and the transformation of state sovereignty / Raymond Duvall and Jonathan Havercroft -- The spaces between us : the gendered politics of outer space / Penny Griffin -- The lost dimension : a spatial reading of US weaponisation of space / Natalie Bormann -- Haunted dreams : critical theory, technology and the militarization of space / Columba Peoples -- The (power) politics of space : the US astropolitical discourse on global dominance in the war on terror / David Grondin -- Between blind faith and deep skepticism : the "weaponisation of space" and the Canadian debate on ballistic missile defense / Miguel de Larrinaga -- The mice that soar : smaller states perspectives on space weaponisation / Wade Huntley -- Profaning the path to the sacred : the militarisation of the European space programme / Michael Sheehan -- Neo-realism and the Galileo and GPS negotiations / Iain Ross Ballantyne Bolton -- Pol Sci-Fi 101 : lessons from science fiction television for global and outer space politics / Mark D. Hamilton |
| Summary |
This edited volume analyses a number of controversial policies and strategies relating to Space activities, and to place these in a broader theoretical perspective. The book reveals the relationship between activities in Outer Space and terrestrial international relations |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 221-249) and index |
| Subject |
Space weapons.
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Space security.
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TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING -- Military Science.
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HISTORY -- Military -- Other.
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Government policy
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Space security
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Space weapons
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Strategic aspects of individual places
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| SUBJECT |
Outer space -- Strategic aspects
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Outer space -- Government policy -- United States
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| Subject |
United States
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Outer space
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Bormann, Natalie, editor.
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Sheehan, Michael (Michael J.), editor.
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| LC no. |
2008035662 |
| ISBN |
9781134044832 |
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9780203882023 |
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0203882024 |
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1134044836 |
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