{"title":"Tortoise the Titan: Private Entities as Geoeconomic Tools in Outer Space","authors":"Bohumil Doboš","doi":"10.1016/j.spacepol.2022.101487","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Like the terrestrial international politics after the end of the Cold War, outer space is shifting from the utilisation of geopolitical tools only to the increasing reliance on geoeconomic means of power competition. This article reconceptualizes the New Space era and the heating geoeconomic competition by adding into consideration the Mahanian view on the sustainability of operations in non-land domains by authoritarian and democratic regimes. The article responds to the question of the difference between the approach to the private space companies in the West and in China and of sustainability of the different trajectories taken. It concludes that the Western more indirect model is likely to become more sustainable to the Chinese more intrusive utilisation of geoeconomic tools.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":45924,"journal":{"name":"Space Policy","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":2.0000,"publicationDate":"2022-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"2","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Space Policy","FirstCategoryId":"90","ListUrlMain":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0265964622000133","RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"Q2","JCRName":"INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Abstract
Like the terrestrial international politics after the end of the Cold War, outer space is shifting from the utilisation of geopolitical tools only to the increasing reliance on geoeconomic means of power competition. This article reconceptualizes the New Space era and the heating geoeconomic competition by adding into consideration the Mahanian view on the sustainability of operations in non-land domains by authoritarian and democratic regimes. The article responds to the question of the difference between the approach to the private space companies in the West and in China and of sustainability of the different trajectories taken. It concludes that the Western more indirect model is likely to become more sustainable to the Chinese more intrusive utilisation of geoeconomic tools.
期刊介绍:
Space Policy is an international, interdisciplinary journal which draws on the fields of international relations, economics, history, aerospace studies, security studies, development studies, political science and ethics to provide discussion and analysis of space activities in their political, economic, industrial, legal, cultural and social contexts. Alongside full-length papers, which are subject to a double-blind peer review system, the journal publishes opinion pieces, case studies and short reports and, in so doing, it aims to provide a forum for the exchange of ideas and opinions and a means by which authors can alert policy makers and international organizations to their views. Space Policy is also a journal of record, reproducing, in whole or part, official documents such as treaties, space agency plans or government reports relevant to the space community. Views expressed in the journal are not necessarily those of the editors or members of the editorial board.