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Space Power and Meta-Geopolitics

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Meta-Geopolitics of Outer Space

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Globalization means that the strategic dynamics of the world we live in are changing rapidly.1 As suggested previously, ‘[g]eopolitics is not and never will be a static science. An important part of geopolitical thinking is the study of international dynamics and new developments that might affect the power of states and power relationships between them’.2 Recent technological progress in transport infrastructures, information and communication tools and, of course, space technologies, has opened new doors but also created additional threats for the international community, thereby altering its existing geopolitical structures.

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  1. St Antony’s College, Oxford University, UK

    Nayef R. F. Al-Rodhan (Senior Member, Senior Scholar in Geostrategy, and Director of the Geopolitics of Globalisation and Transnational Security Programme)

  2. Geneva Centre for Security Policy, Geneva, Switzerland

    Nayef R. F. Al-Rodhan (Senior Member, Senior Scholar in Geostrategy, and Director of the Geopolitics of Globalisation and Transnational Security Programme)

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Al-Rodhan, N.R.F. (2012). Space Power and Meta-Geopolitics. In: Meta-Geopolitics of Outer Space. St Antony’s Series. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137016652_2

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