Monographie

Power, state and space : conceptualizing, measuring and comparing space actors / Marco Aliberti, Ottorino Cappelli, Rodrigo Praino

Type de contenu
  • Texte
Type de médiation
  • sans médiation
Type de support
  • Volume
Titre(s)
  • Power, state and space : conceptualizing, measuring and comparing space actors / Marco Aliberti, Ottorino Cappelli, Rodrigo Praino
Auteur(s)
Autre(s) auteur(s)
Publication
  • Cham : Springer : Espi
Date de copyright
  • C 2023
Description matérielle
  • 1 vol. (XII-225 p.) : ill., graph., tabl. ; 24 cm
Collection
  • Studies in Space Policy Series vol .35
ISBN
  • 978-3-031-32870-1
EAN
  • 9783031328701 rel.
Appartient à la collection
  • Studies in space policy (Print) 1868-5307 35
Classification décimale Dewey
  • 327.091 9
Note sur la publication, la production, etc.
  • Espi = European space policy Institute
Note sur les bibliographies et les index
  • Bibliogr. en fin de chapitres
Résumé ou extrait
  • This book explains on what basis a nation can claim the status of space power, what are the criteria differentiating a space power from "lesser" space actors, and how their spacepower can be empirically measured and assessed. To this end, it sets forth a comprehensive multidisciplinary framework to enable a dynamic comparison of space actors and of the pathways that lead them in and out of the space powers' club. Drawing upon a critical review of the existing literature, it conceptualises spacepower as a form of state power based on the complex interplay between the two defining dimensions of stateness, namely the well-studied dimension of capacity and the often neglected yet exceedingly important dimension of autonomy. The book demonstrates that only actors possessing high levels of both autonomy and capacity qualify as space powers. Different levels of either capacity or autonomy produce other types of space actors, including skilled spacefarers, self-reliant spacefarers, primed spacefarers, and emerging space actors. This innovative conceptual framework is complemented by an in-depth comparative assessment that collects and processes a large amount of hard-to-find data on the most active global space actors and aggregates multiple indicators into a compound, non-hierarchical index of space power visualised in the form of a matrix.
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