The Politics of Space Security: Strategic Restraint and the Pursuit of National Interests - Softcover

The Politics of Space Security; Strategic Restraint and the Pursuit of National Interests

Trade paperback. Zustand: Very good. Presumed first printing thus. xi, [3], 367, [3] pages. Footnotes. Selected Bibliography. James Clay Moltz is a professor in the Department of National Security Affairs at the Naval Postgraduate School (NPS), where he also holds a joint appointment in the Space Systems Academic Group. His books include: The Politics of Space Security: Strategic Restraint and the Pursuit of National Interests; Crowded Orbits: Conflict and Cooperation in Space; and Asia's Space Race: National Motivations, Regional Rivalries, and International Risks. He is also co-author of Nuclear Weapons and Nonproliferation and co-editor of Preventing Nuclear Meltdown and The North Korean Nuclear Program, as well as two volumes on space policy (Collective Security in Space: Asian Perspectives and European Perspectives). From September 2020 to March 2022, Prof. Moltz served as dean of the Graduate School of International and Defense Studies at NPS. From 2018-20, he served as chairman of the Department of National Security Affairs (NSA) at NPS. From 2012-16, he was the NSA Department's associate chair for research, while also directing the Center on Contemporary Conflict (CCC) and the Project on Advanced Systems and Concepts for Countering Weapons of Mass Destruction (PASCC), funded by the Defense Threat Reduction Agency. Prof. Moltz holds a Ph.D. in Political Science from the University of California at Berkeley. Prof. Moltz worked previously in the U.S. Senate, at the University of California at San Diego, and at the Monterey Institute of International Studies' Center for Nonproliferation Studies. At a time when no other country enjoys the advantages that the United States currently reaps from space, some U.S. officials argue that U.S. space defenses will be needed to protect access to critical military and civilian assets in orbit. Others argue that space should be a valuable "sanctuary" from deployed weapons and military conflict. To inform this debate, and develop meaningful guidelines for the future, Clay Moltz has undertaken the only comprehensive study of the first 50 years of space security, highlighting the main trends in military space developments, their underlying causes, and the factors that are likely to influence their future course. What emerges is a picture of surprising military restraint shown by the United States and the Soviet Union in space, and the inescapable conclusion that the only way forward is through a multilateral commitment to interdependent, environmentally focused space security. Artikel-Nr. 84528

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