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Privatizing Peace : How Commerce Can Reduce Conflict in Space - Wendy N. Whitman Cobb

Privatizing Peace

How Commerce Can Reduce Conflict in Space

By: Wendy N. Whitman Cobb

eText | 15 June 2020 | Edition Number 1

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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.

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Warfare & DefenceWeapons & EquipmentChemical & Biological WeaponsEnvironmental SciencePeace Studies & Conflict ResolutionEarth Sciences, Geography, Environment, PlanningThe EnvironmentApplied EcologySociology & AnthropologySociologyPolitics & GovernmentSociety & Social Sciences

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Published: 21st July 2020

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