BISA 2025 Conference

Space Warfare and its Impact on Security and Governance

WE 18

18 Jun 2025, 10:45

1h 30m

Panel Astropolitics Working Group

Description

This panel explores the role of changing technologies in outer space and their implications for space warfare, security, and governance, and also considers the framings around such technologies and whether they inhibit the pursuit of "responsible" behaviours in outer space. The papers in this panel also investigates the prospects for cooperation amid the looming dynamics of a security dilemma between the major powers in outer space.

Subcontributions

• Governing international cooperation in outer space exploration
• Ballistic Encounters: Nuclear Territories in Outer Space
• Secrecy or Security: The Potential Role of Information Exchange in Balancing the ‘Orbital Security Dilemma’
• The weaponisation of ‘responsibility’ in space security
• The Shock of the New: Hybrid Warfare, Digital Warfare and Outer Space