Privatizing peace: how commerce can reduce conflict in space

"This book explores the privatization of space and its global impact on the future of commerce, peace and conflict. As space becomes more congested, contested, and competitive in the government and the private arenas, the talk around space research moves past NASA's monopoly on academic an...

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1. Verfasser: Whitman Cobb, Wendy N. (VerfasserIn)
Format: Buch
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: New York ; London Routledge 2021
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Zusammenfassung:"This book explores the privatization of space and its global impact on the future of commerce, peace and conflict. As space becomes more congested, contested, and competitive in the government and the private arenas, the talk around space research moves past NASA's monopoly on academic and cultural imaginations to discuss how Elon Musk's Space X and Jeff Bezos' Blue Origin is making space 'cool' again. This volume addresses the new rhetoric of space race and weaponization, with a focus on how the costs of potential conflict in space would discourage open conflict and enable global cooperation. It highlights the increasing dependence of the global economy on space research, its democratization, plunging costs of access, and growing economic potential of space-based assets. Thoughtful, nuanced, well-documented, this book is a must read for scholars and researchers of science and technology studies, space studies, political studies, sociology, environmental studies, and political economy. It will also be of much interest to policy makers, bureaucrats, think-tanks, as well as the interested general reader looking for fresh perspectives on the future of space"--
Beschreibung:Literaturangaben
Beschreibung:xi, 137 Seiten Diagramm 24 cm
ISBN:9780367336240
9780367337834
0367337835

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