Description
This panel discusses the recent past and present of the use of outer space for core state interests, particularly in military, intelligence, and security dimensions. In short, it explores critical issues in world politics as they are playing out in outer space. Over 70 years of the Space Age has led to a reliance in the United States on satellite systems for critical infrastructure. However, it is not solely a story of the United States and security-seeking behaviour. This panel also explores a British perspective to military space activities, increasingly prominent discussions of space laws, rules, and norms in governing the use of space for all actors in space, and also questions the contested concept of 'space security' itself to provide a broad perspective and interrogation of how states use spacepower for their own terrestrial interests.
