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The European Parliament on Space: From Promoting Scientific Research to Supporting the Common Security and Defence Policy

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The Emergence of EU Defense Research Policy

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Abstract

The European Parliament has co-legislating authority on the EU’s space policy, and space has an increasingly important security and research dimension. Therefore, it is crucial to know what the EP’s stance is on space. Rather than taking a snapshot, the chapter will look at development of the EP’s positions toward a European space policy. Drawing on EP space resolutions and on personal interviews with MEPs and EP officials, the chapter’s main goals are to show: (1) that the EP is not shy to talk openly about the EU’s space programs being used for security purposes, (2) that the EP started pushing for a European space policy early on (earlier than other EU institutions), and (3) that research has been instrumentalized to build an EU space policy that has a security/military dimension.

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Notes

  1. 1.

    Personal interview with Alan Cooper (European Space Agency).

  2. 2.

    Personal interview with Matthias Rüte (European Commission).

  3. 3.

    The less frequent and interesting justification frames have been omitted.

  4. 4.

    The following paragraphs of this section draw on Sigalas (2016).

  5. 5.

    For more on the origins and development of the European space policy, see Suzuki (2003) and Krige (2014).

  6. 6.

    For theoretically informed explanations of the development of the European Space Policy, see Suzuki (2003) and Hörber and Sigalas (2017).

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  1. Institute of International Relations, Prague, Prague, Czech Republic

    Emmanuel Sigalas

  2. Public Governance Institute, University of Leuven, Leuven, Belgium

    Emmanuel Sigalas

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  1. National Documentation Centre / National, Hellenic Research Foundation, Athens, Greece

    Nikolaos Karampekios

  2. Independent Researcher, Athens, Greece

    Iraklis Oikonomou

  3. School of Business, The George Washington University, Washington, DC, USA

    Elias G. Carayannis

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Sigalas, E. (2018). The European Parliament on Space: From Promoting Scientific Research to Supporting the Common Security and Defence Policy. In: Karampekios, N., Oikonomou, I., Carayannis, E. (eds) The Emergence of EU Defense Research Policy. Innovation, Technology, and Knowledge Management. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-68807-7_13

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