Securing outer space / edited by Natalie Bormann and Michael Sheehan. - London : Routledge, 2009. - viii, 260 p. : ill., map ; 25 cm. - Routledge critical security studies series . - Routledge critical security studies series. .

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

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.

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Space weapons.
Space security.


Outer space--Strategic aspects.
Outer space--Government policy--United States.