Privatizing Peace: How Commerce Can Reduce Conflict in Space

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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 SpaceX 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 policymakers, bureaucrats, think tanks, as well as the interested general reader looking for fresh perspectives on the future of space.
Copyright:
2020

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ISBN-13:
9781000095425
Related ISBNs:
9780429321917, 9780367336240, 9780367336240, 9780367337834, 9780367337834
Publisher:
Taylor and Francis
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Copyrighted By:
Wendy N. Whitman Cobb, The right of Wendy N. Whitman Cobb to be identified as author of this work has been asserted by her in accordance with sections
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No
Language:
English
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No
Categories:
Nonfiction, Science, Business and Finance, Social Studies
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Bookshare Staff
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