Interested in Anglo-American defense and intelligence cooperation? Check out the new article in Diplomacy & Statecraft by SPI Professor Aaron Bateman: Keeping the Technological Edge: The Space Arms Race and Anglo-American Relations in the 1980s.
Category: Authored Articles and Conference Papers
“Winning a seat at the table: Strategic routes by emerging powers to gain privileges in exclusive formal clubs” was published by the journal Contemporary Security Policy and authored by one of our esteemed non-resident scholars, Deganit Paikowsky.
“Winning a seat at the table: Strategic routes by emerging powers to gain privileges in exclusive formal clubs” was published by the journal Contemporary Security Policy and authored by one of our esteemed non-resident scholars, Deganit Paikowsky.
In this article, we focus on emerging powers that aspire to enjoy privileges enjoyed by established powers. These privileges vary in their level of institutionalization: full formal privileges, partial formal privileges, and informal privileges. We identify two alternative strategic routes through which emerging powers target these three types of privileges: a top-down and a bottom-up routes. We analyze two factors that impact the choice between these two routes: restrictiveness of eligibility criteria for winning privileges, and the expected levels of opposition by both established powers and outsiders. We examine the impact of these factors on two cases in which India negotiated privileges: India’s top-down campaign to win a permanent seat on the UN Security Council; and India’s bottom-up campaign to enter the nuclear club as a de facto nuclear weapon state. Highly restrictive eligibility criteria along with high levels of opposition drove India to gradually seek nuclear privileges through a bottom-up route.
It can be found here: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/13523260.2022.2074116
Makusu Tsuizaki authors article published by The Space Review. (Part 2 now available)
Visiting scholar in The George Washington University Space Policy Institute, Makusu Tsuizaki, has his article published in The Space Review. Raising the flag on the Moon and Mars: future human space exploration in Japan (part 1)/4377/1
Part 2 is out now and can be found here: Raising the flag on the Moon and Mars: future human space exploration in Japan (part 2)
The Hill op-ed by Dr. Pace
SPI Director Scott Pace op-ed in the The Hill, “US needs more than one way to get to the moon — will Congress support competition?”. The full article can be found here at: https://thehill.com/opinion/technology/3471993-us-needs-more-than-one-way-to-get-to-the-moon-will-congress-support-competition/
Moon J. Kim Article
SPI Alumni, Moon J. Kim, was published in the New Space Journal. The article is titled “The Potential Speculative Bubble in the
U.S. Commercial Space Launch Industry and the Implications to the United States” and can be accessed at https://www.liebertpub.com/doi/pdf/10.1089/space.2017.0029
Dr. John Klein Authored an Article for National DEFENSE
Dr. John J. Klein, adjunct SPI professor, authored an article titled “Industry Vital for Deterring Aggression in Space.” The article was published by National DEFENSE, NDIA’s Business & Technology Magazine, and can be found here.
Dr. John Klein Authored an article for Strategy Bridge
Dr. John J. Klein, adjunct SPI professor, co-authored an article titled “A Comprehensive Approach to Space Deterrence.” The article was published by Strategy Bridge and can be accessed here.
SPI Director Scott Pace Co-Authors Article for Politico
SPI Director Scott Pace co-authors the article, “Now is the time to invest in private space stations” for Politico magazine. The article addresses the transition away from the ISS model to a commercially operated space station model. For more, check out the full article.
Dr. John Klein Authored an Article for the Naval War College Review
Dr. John J. Klein, adjunct SPI professor, co-authored an article titled “Some Lessons on Spacepower from Colin Gray.” The article was published by the Naval War College Review and can be accessed here.
“Countering Threats in Space Through International Cooperation”
Recent SPI graduate Gentoku Toyoma wrote the article “Countering Threats in Space Through International Cooperation“, which was published in Space Policy, Volume 55, February 2021.
Abstract:
The U.S. military’s dependence on inherently vulnerable space assets creates an incentive for its adversaries to target U.S. space systems. Establishing mission assurance through resilience and reconstitution is a critical challenge for the United States. One of the U.S. approaches to strengthening resilience and reconstituting space systems is to engage in international cooperation with its allies. Such cooperation can effectively improve three elements of resilience: disaggregation, distribution, and diversification. International joint development of satellites with allies would also improve the reconstitution of U.S. space systems, which involves rebuilding these systems after damage by adversaries. These efforts could benefit both the United States and its allies through imposing quantitative and political costs on adversaries for attacking U.S. space systems. Several issues prevent close cooperation. Considering these benefits and obstacles, establishing space systems, especially an SSA(Space Situational Awareness) satellite constellation, with allies could be an effective undertaking for the United States. The United States has an advantage compared with its adversaries as it possesses a number of strong allies and partners; thus, the United States should maximize this advantage to improve the resilience and reconstitution of space systems.
