Saadia M. Pekkanen is the Job and Gertrud Tamaki Endowed Professor at the University of Washington in Seattle. In addition to this appointment in The Henry M. Jackson School of International Studies, she is Adjunct Professor in the Department of Political Science and Adjunct Professor at the School of Law, where she also teaches courses. She is a member of the International Institute of Space Law. At the University of Washington, she is the founding director of the Qualitative Multi-Method Program (QUAL), and the founding director of the Space Law, Data and Policy Program (SPACE LDP).

P.J. Blount is a Lecturer in Law in the School of Law and Politics at Cardiff University. He is the author of Reprogramming the World: Cyberspace and the Geography of Global Order (2019), an editor of the Proceedings of the International Institute of Space Law, and, formerly, the Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Space Law. He currently serves as the Executive Secretary of the International
Institute of Space Law and is a licensed attorney with the State Bar of Georgia.

• Overview


• Chapter 1: International Relations Theory and the Evolution of Peaceful Purposes in Outer Space


• -Saadia M. Pekkanen and P.J. Blount


• Chapter 2: A Short History of Space Security


• -Stephen Buono and Aaron Bateman


• Chapter 3: Legal Frameworks for Space Security


• -Setsuko Aoki


• Theoretical Approaches and Perspectives


• Chapter 4: The Discourse of Space Securitization


• -P.J. Blount


• Chapter 5: Critical Space Security: Space is Not Special


• -Carl Graefe and Raymond Duvall


• Chapter 6: Commercial Space Peace Theory: Economic Interdependence and Conflict in Space


• -Wendy Whitman-Cobb


• Chapter 7: Soft Power and Cooperation for Space Security


• -Pavel Luzin


• Chapter 8: Techno-Security Space Innovation


• -Tai Ming Cheung and Yasuhito Fukushima


• Chapter 9: The Interplay of Domestic Policy and International Space Security


• -Xiaodan Wu


• Chapter 10: The Next Frontier: Strategic Theory for the Space Domain


• -Tim Sweijs and Davis Ellison


• Chapter 11: Unbundling Threats: Balancing and Alliances in the Space Domain


• -Saadia M. Pekkanen


• Chapter 12: Deterring Attacks on Space Systems


• -Forrest E. Morgan


• Chapter 13: Arms Control and the Myth of Peaceful Uses in Outer Space


• -Jessica West


• Chapter 14: Ethics in Space Security: Virtue and the Future of Cosmopolitanism


• -Koji Tachibana


• Statecraft and Strategy


• Chapter 15: U.S. National Security Interests in Space


• -Scott Pace


• Chapter 16: Neoclassical Realism as a Framework for Understanding China's Rise as a Space Power


• -Kevin Pollpeter


• Chapter 17: Russia's Integrated Statecraft in the Space Domain


• -Florian Vidal


• Chapter 18: Japan's Grand Strategy in Outer Space


• -Saadia M. Pekkanen


• Chapter 19: India's Space Program: Its Evolution and Future Trajectory


• -Rajeswari Pillai Rajagopalan and %Sumit Ganguly


• Chapter 20: French Space Security in Historical Perspective: Balancing Strategic Autonomy and Cooperation


• -Xavier Pasco


• Chapter 21: UK Space Policy: A Quest for Coherence


• -Mark Hilborne


• Chapter 22: The European Union's Deepening Engagement in Space Security: Hedging Through Strategic Autonomy


• -Tomas Hrozensky and Mathieu Bataille


• Chapter 23: Perspectives on Membership in the Space Club in West Asia: Israel and UAE


• -Deganit Paikowsky


• Chapter 24: Military Space Strategies and African Realism: Egypt, South Africa, and Nigeria


• -Samuel Oyewole


• Chapter 25: Space Security in Latin American Perspectives


• -Olavo de O. Bittencourt Neto and Jairo Becerra


• Chapter 26: Southeast Asia Space Security and Strategy: Development, Drivers, and Dynamics


• -Prashanth Parameswaran


• Chapter 27: The Dynamics of South Korea's Space Trajectories


• -Su-Mi Lee and Hanbeom Jeong


• Chapter 28: From Passive to Active Space Powers: Australia and Aotearoa New Zealand


• -Matthew Stubbs and Desislava Gancheva


• Strategic Implications of Capabilities


• Chapter 29: Anti-Satellite and Space Weapons: Risks and Paths to Peace


• -Laura Grego


• Chapter 30: The Greatest Transformation: How Cyber is Defining Security in the Space Domain


• -Larry F. Martinez


• Chapter 31: The "AI Wave" in Space Operations: Implications for Future Warfare


• -Michael Raska and Malcolm Davis


• Chapter 32: Security Dilemma, Debris, and the Future of Space Operations


• -Brad Townsend


• Chapter 33: Space Sustainability: Balanced Space Security Global Governance


• -Guoyu Wang


• Chapter 34: Norm-Formation and Space Traffic Management


• -P. J. Blount


• Chapter 35: Space Resources and Prospects for Contested Governance


• -Alanna Krowlikowski and Martin Elvis


• Chapter 36: Space-Based Data and Human Security


• -Mariel Borowitz


• Chapter 37: Enabling National Security Through Space: Intelligence and Communications


• -Peter L. Hays and James J. Wirtz


• Chapter 38: The State, Development, and Human Security in Space


• -Mohamed Amara and Sagee Geetha Sethu


• Chapter 39: The Geopolitics of Global Navigation Satellite Systems


• -Paul B. Larsen


• Chapter 40: Newspace and New Risks in Space Security


• -John J. Klein and Nickolas J. Boensch


• Chapter 41: Planetary Defense: A Unique Opportunity to Practice Cosmopolitan Security Principles in National Foreign Policies


• -Nikola Schmidt


• Prospects


• Chapter 42: The Future of Global Space Governance


• -Natália Archinard


• Chapter 43: The Future of Space Security: Assessing the Prospects for Peaceful Outcomes


• -James Clay Moltz


• Chapter 44: The Future of Cooperation in Space: Irreconcilable Differences?


• -Zhou Bo and Wang Guoyu

The Oxford Handbook of Space Security focuses on the interaction between space technology and international and national security processes. Saadia M. Pekkanen and P.J. Blount have gathered a group of key scholars who bring a range of analytical and theoretical perspectives to take an analytically-eclectic approach to assessing space security from an international relations (IR) theory perspective. Bringing together scholarship from a group of leading experts, this volume explains how these contemporary changes will affect future security in, from, and through space.