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:
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.
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...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...
European space policies and programmes develop in institutions (the European Union, the European Space Agency, national agencies) that operate with different goals and modalities. The recent experience of the Galileo and GMES programmes seems to argue in favor of a more exigent organisation,...
A new military competition is born in space. All the great powers, and especially China, know that in this field lie the force and the weakness of the United States: hence Beijing's attempt—symbolized by the test in January 2007—to develop anti-satellite weapons. In such a context,...
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