1/4 I’m pleased to share my latest open access article, “Same orbits, different rocket dreams? China, India, and the case for global space security studies,” in the Journal of Space Safety Engineering. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
China’s space achievements are accelerating. But does that automatically make it a great power in space? My article explores why space power also depends on leadership, recognition, and the ability to attract and retain followers.
Article: www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1...
Don’t miss the International Studies Association’s Virtual PASS course “Advancing Diplomacy for Space Security” next Monday (Feb 9, 2026) with Saadia M. Pekkanen, PJ Blount, Gregory Miller — and me. Mini TTX + diplomacy under time pressure.
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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.
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.
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