Space policy in developing countries : the search for security and development on the final frontier / Robert C. Harding.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Harding, Robert C., author.

Series:

Space Power and Politics

Space power and politics

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Astronautics and state--Developing countries.

Astronautics and state.

National security--Developing countries.

National security.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (249 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon ; New York : Routledge, 2013.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This book analyses the rationale and history of space programs in countries of the developing world. Space was at one time the sole domain of the wealthiest developed countries. However, the last couple of decades of the twentieth century and the first decade of the twenty-first century have witnessed the number of countries with state-supported space programs blossom. Today, no less than twenty-five developing states, including the rapidly emerging economic powers of Brazil (seventh-largest), China (second-largest), and India (fourth-largest), possess active national space programs

Contents:

Cover; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; List of tables; Preface; Acknowledgments; Introduction: Space power as national power; 1 Space power and the modern state; 2 The evolution of national space policies; 3 First tier space actors: Launching BRICs into space; 4 Second tier space actors; 5 Third tier space actors; Conclusion: Space policy in developing countries; Notes; Bibliography; Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on metadata supplied by the publisher and other sources.

ISBN:

1-136-25789-6

1-283-60538-4

9786613917836

1-136-25790-X

0-203-10644-X

9780203106440

OCLC:

810931564