Research Catalog

Title

Securing outer space / edited by Natalie Bormann and Michael Sheehan.

Publication

London ; New York : Routledge, 2009.

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Additional Authors

• Bormann, Natalie.
• Sheehan, Michael (Michael J.)

Description

viii, 260 pages : illustrations, map; 25 cm.

Series Statement

Routledge critical security studies series

Uniform Title

Routledge critical security studies series.

Subjects

• Space weapons
• Outer space > Government policy > United States
• Outer space > Strategic aspects
• Space security

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. [221]-249) and index.

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 / Jonathan Havercroft and Raymond Duvall -- 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 "weaponization of space" and the Canadian debate on ballistic missile defense / Miguel de Larrinaga -- The mice that soar : smaller states' perspectives on space weaponization / Wade L. 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 -- Poli sci-fi 101 : lessons from science fiction television for global and outer space politics / Mark D. Hamilton.

ISBN

• 9780415460569 (cloth : alk. paper)
• 0415460565 (cloth : alk. paper)
• 9780203882023 (ebook)
• 0203882024 (ebook)

LCCN

2008035662

OCLC

• ocn244352636
• 244352636
• SCSB-5466258

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries