Book Series

Space Power and Politics

Series Editor: Everett Dolman, John Sheldon

The Space Power and Politics series will provide a forum where space policy and historical issues can be explored and examined in-depth. The series will produce works that examine civil, commercial, and military uses of space and their implications for international politics, strategy, and political economy. This will include works on government and private space programs, technological developments, conflict and cooperation, security issues, and history.

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US Hypersonic Research and Development

The Rise and Fall of 'Dyna-Soar', 1944-1963

By Roy F. Houchin II

Series: Space Power and Politics

An essential new account of some of the most valuable research and development in international military history. Roy F. Houchin II shows how the roots of US Air Force hypersonic research and development are grounded in Army Air Force General Henry H. 'Hap' Arnold's identification of the need...

Published March 21st 2013 by Routledge
Space Strategy in the 21st Century

Theory and Policy

Edited by Eligar Sadeh

Series: Space Power and Politics

This book offers an overview of space strategy in the 21st century. The purpose of space strategy is to coordinate, integrate, and prioritize space activities across security, commercial, and civil sectors. Without strategy, space activities continue to provide value, but it becomes difficult to...

Published November 25th 2012 by Routledge
Chinese Space Policy

A Study in Domestic and International Politics

By Roger Handberg, Zhen Li

Series: Space Power and Politics

This volume explains the beginnings and expansion of China's space program, analyzing how China is now able to hold such ambitions and how the interaction between technology, politics and economics has influenced the Chinese space program. It opens by tracing out the earlier development of the...

Published September 12th 2012 by Routledge
Space Policy in Developing Countries

The Search for Security and Development on the Final Frontier

By Robert Harding

Series: Space Power and Politics

This book analyses the rationale and history of space programs in countries of the developing world. Space was at one time the sole domain of the wealthiest developed countries. However, the last couple of decades of the twentieth century and the first decade of the twenty-first century have...

Published June 6th 2012 by Routledge
Space and Defense Policy

Edited by Damon Coletta, Frances T. Pilch

Series: Space Power and Politics

This edited volume introduces the reader to the role of space in military and defense strategy, and outlines some of the major foreign and domestic actors in the space arena, as well as constraints of law and treaties on activities in space. It also addresses science and technology as they relate...

Published January 14th 2010 by Routledge
The International Politics of Space

By Michael Sheehan

Series: Space Power and Politics

The year 2007 saw the fiftieth anniversary of the Space Age, which began with the launching of Sputnik by the Soviet Union in October 1957. 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...

Published October 30th 2007 by Routledge
Space Warfare

Strategy, Principles and Policy

By John J. Klein

Series: Space Power and Politics

This new study considers military space strategy within the context of the land and naval strategies of the past. Explaining why and how strategists note the similarities of space operations to those of the air and naval forces, this book shows why many such strategies unintentionally lead to...

Published April 5th 2006 by Routledge