Pleased to be quoted today in The European Correspondent on Europe’s contribution to Artemis and its broader role in space.
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@lseideas.bsky.social
In the last two weeks, we watched four astronauts do what no human being ever has: travel 406,771 km from Earth, around the Moon, and back. On reentry
In my open access article for @iajournal.bsky.social I examine how space politics is becoming more plural and less Western-centric.
It looks at how China, private actors, emerging space powers, the global South, and regional cooperation are reshaping the international space order.
Dimitrios Stroikos
2/4 The article makes the case for a global space security studies. Participation of new actors from the Global South, has introduced greater diversity and plurality in understandings of what constitutes space security, prevailing analyses remain largely couched in Eurocentrism
I’ll be presenting my recent Pacific Review article, Empire of the stars not yet? China as a “partial” great power in space. Free and open to all, and chaired by @bleddb.bsky.social
4/4 Using China and India as an entry point, and building on postcolonial insights, the article argues that how space security is understood and practiced in the non-Western world can look familiar yet remain “almost the same, but not quite.”
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3/4 This has the effect of reifying a universal understanding of space security, often distorting or obscuring the different meanings, referent objects, and drivers of space security policy in the non-Western world.
Thanks so much, Chris. All is good, and I hope you are well too.
