Space
What are the political challenges for a Space development ?
Ifri's Space Program seeks to establish the importance of space as a political subject among policymakers and the general public, to highlight the central role it plays in our societies and economies. It also aims to situate national, regional and international space policies in the broader context of the dynamics currently affecting international relations. Finally, the project seeks to define and illustrate the strategic opportunities of space, to establish and understand its importance in international politics. The Space Program focuses its analyses on Europe, since its ability to cope with the challenges of the 21st century will depend in part on the development of a coherent and ambitious space strategy.
Last December, the European Union adopted a draft Code of Conduct for Outer Space Activities. This signals an important change of strategy in the field of space security.
In collaboration with IFRI, the Paris-based Fondation pour la Recherche Stratégique (FRS), as well as the Berlin-based Stiftung Wissenschaft und Politik (SWP), the European Space Policy Institute (ESPI) joined in the drafting of a policy-memorandum on Franco-German space cooperation. This...
This paper was presented at the Conference “Improving Our Vision II: Building Transparency and Cooperation,” organized in London by the Center for Defense Information (CDI) and the Eisenhower Center for Space and Defense Studies of the U.S. Air Force Academy on October 25-26, 2007.
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In the wake of the Chinese asat tests of the Summer of 06 and of January 07, should the U.S. and Europe develop a new attitude regarding weapons in space? This new Ifri policy paper on space weaponization was written with the support of the Centre d'Analyse et de Prévision (C.A.P.) of the...
This Working Paper was written as a presentation for an Expert Meeting on "Space Situational Awareness for Europe", organized by the European Space Policy Institute (ESPI) in Vienna, on september 6th, 2007.
Constellations of observation satellites resemble the 'Panopticon' system imagined by British philosopher Jeremy Bentham in his 18th century project for an ideal jailhouse - a system that Michel Foucault analyzed in Discipline and Punish (1975). Just as the warden in the central tower watches...
This is the introduction to a special issue of Politique étrangère on Space as "a new field of strategic thinking". Authors from America, Russia, Brussels and France explore recent evolutions in military choices and in the governance of space.
Thanks to the renewed funding capacities of the federal budget, Russian space is back on tracks. Russia had very largely lost its eminent positions in space technologies in the 1990's. However, the current restructuring strategy seems incomplete: there is no true privatization or opening to...
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