The Militarization of European Space Policy

1. Auflage 2025
ISBN: 978-1-032-13745-2
Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd

Buch, Englisch, 230 Seiten, Format (B × H): 233 mm x 156 mm, Gewicht: 352 g

Reihe: Space Power and Politics

This book is focused on militarization as the nucleus of EU space policy and the interrelatedness of European security, industrial competitiveness, and military capabilities in the shaping of this policy.

The EU and key member states have increasingly joined the US, China and Russia, among others, in regarding space assets as critical military, as well as economic, industrial, and technological, enablers. This book tackles this issue by, first, shedding light on the military aspects of EU space policy, with special emphasis on the security and defence dimensions of projects such as Galileo, Copernicus, Space Situational Awareness, and Satellite Communication. In this context, contributors confront the empirical aspect of developments, including the role of different institutional actors and the involvement of specific member states. Further, the volume analyses the discursive, ideological, normative, and theoretical foundations of the use of space by the EU for strategic purposes, drawing on the broad spectrum of European integration/International Relations theory. Last, but not least, the volume discusses initiatives outside the EU by key global space players, with an emphasis on the US and transatlantic space relations. All chapters maintain a solid empirical foundation, in the form of geographical or issue-related focus, with an area-specific emphasis on the EU as a whole, transatlantic relations, the policies of key member states (such as France and Italy), and core space powers such as the US, China and India.

This book will be of much interest to students of space power, security studies, European politics and International Relations.

Zielgruppe

Postgraduate, Professional, and Undergraduate Advanced

Autoren/Hrsg.

Oikonomou, Iraklis

Hoerber, Thomas

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Militärgeschichte
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Kultur Staatsbürgerkunde, Staatsbürgerschaft, Zivilgesellschaft
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Militärwesen Nationale und Internationale Sicherheits- und Verteidigungspolitik
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Europäische Geschichte
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Internationale Beziehungen Internationale Organisationen und Institutionen

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction  Part I. The Conceptual & Strategic Dimension  1. Militarisation and Space: Constructing Space as Location  2. Europe’s ‘Defensive Militarisation’ of Space: Space in The Context of the EU’s Emerging Military Agenda  3. The Militarisation of Outer Space: A European Perspective  4. From Fragmented Space to the Space University Institute  Part II. Actors, Issues & Interests  5. Outer Space, Debris and the Militarisation of Space  6. The European Space Industry as a Driving Force for Militarisation  7. Italy’s Space Policy: Between Domestic Preferences and European Policies  8. The Case of Luxembourg: A New Role for The Melians?  Part III. The Global Dimension  9. From Space Situational Awareness to Space Domain Awareness: Examining Rhetorical and Substantive Transitions in the U.S. Approach to Space Security  10. China and India as Rising Powers and the Militarisation of Space  11. Military Strategy in Outer Space: A Call to Arms Control  Conclusion: A European Third Way in Space

Über Autor(innen)

Thomas Hoerber is Professor and Jean Monnet Chair in European Studies, Director of the EU*Asia Institute at ESSCA School of Management, Angers, France. He is the author/editor of fifteen books.

Iraklis Oikonomou is an independent researcher based in Athens, Greece. He holds a PhD in International Politics from the University of Wales Aberystwyth, UK. He is the editor of four books.