2008 and 2009 saw particularly important developments in the specific areas of space transportation, space sciences and exploration, satellite applications and technology developments. The article conducts a thorough review of these trends, adopting both a geographical approach and a thematic...
Space
Space has become a crucial theme in the main international think tanks’ research activities as it entails important strategic, economic, and technological issues.
Since 2001, Ifri has integrated space in its research, notably by ensuring that the political dimension of scientific and human exploration programs is emphasized, and by supporting reflections on the Code of Conduct for Outter Space Activities.
Today, as part of its research agenda, Ifri mobilizes several of its centers and programs to transversally tackle the theme of space, through three main inputs:
- the competition of powers, driven by the Sino-American rivalry;
- critical points related to mastery of space, such as the issue of autonomous access to space or the mega-constellations necessary for the digital revolution;
- these developments’ challenges for Europe and its status as a space power.
Since the Summer 2020, Ifri has been coordinating a tripartite European Space Governance Initiative, together with two other renowned European think tanks: the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Auswärtige Politik (DGAP) in Germany and the Istituto Affari Internazionali (IAI) in Italy.
Research Fellow, Space
...Special Advisor to the President for European Affairs
...The Yearbook on Space Policy aims to be the reference publication analysing space policy developments. Each year it presents issues and trends in space policy and the space sector as a whole. Its scope is global and its perspective is European. The Yearbook also links space policy with other...
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The Berlin-based Stiftung Wissenschaft und Politik (SWP), the VIenna-based European Space Policy Institute (ESPI) and the Paris-based Fondation pour la Recherche Stratégique (FRS), joined with Ifri in the drafting of a policy-memorandum on Franco-German space cooperation. This initiative by...
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...
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