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Space Policy in Developing Countries The Search for Security and Development on the Final Frontier

By Robert Harding Copyright 2013
248 Pages
by Routledge

248 Pages
by Routledge

248 Pages
by Routledge

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 witnessed the number of countries with state-supported space programs blossom. Today, no less... Read more

Preface.  Introduction: Space Power as National Power  1. Space Power and the Modern State  2. The Evolution of National Space Policies  3. First Tier Space Powers (Launching BRICs into Space)  4. Second Tier Space Powers  5. Third Tier Space Powers.  Conclusions: Space Policy in Developing Countries

Biography

Robert C. Harding is Associate Professor, Department of Political Science, at Valdosta University, GA, USA. His principal research interests are space policy, international security, and Latin American politics. He is the author of Military Foundations of Panamanian Politics (2001), The History of Panama (2006), and many scholarly articles in a number of refereed journals, including Air & Space Power Journal.

‘The many strengths of Space Policy in Developing Countries include the thoroughness of the research and the easy readability of Professor Harding’s prose [...] Space Policy in Developing Countries is an excellent and timely introduction to a fast changing field.’ Dr. Scott Shackelford, Indiana University, in e-International Relations