Collaboration in space and the search for peace on earth / Andrew L. Jenks.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Jenks, Andrew L., author.

Series:

Anthem Series on Russian, East European and Eurasian Studies

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

International relations.

Outer space--Exploration--International cooperation.

Outer space.

Outer space--Exploration--Political aspects.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (171 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

London : Anthem Press, 2022.

Summary:

There has been quite a bit of scholarship on the history of the space race, but collaboration in space has received little attention and has usually been dismissed as a propaganda side show. This book thus fills a critical gap by showing the importance of collaboration in space as an antidote to Cold War hostilities and as an important yet underappreciated episode in the development of science and technology in the twentieth century.

Contents:

Cover

Front Matter

Half-title

Title page

Copyright information

Table of Contents

List of Illustrations

Chapters Int-Con

Introduction: An Alternative History of the Space Age

A Tale of Two Tales

Secret versus Open Science

1. Handshakes in Space and the Cold War Imaginary

Where Pragmatism Meets Idealism

Earthrise and the New Imaginary

The Fig Leaf of Scientific Objectivity

Enemy Imaginaries and Bureaucratic Resistance

Androgyneity and the Handshake in Space

ASTP's Place in History

2. Transnational Identity and the Limits of Cosmic Collaboration

The Cosmic Perspective

Lunar Utopias

Cosmism in Policy and Practice

Europe at the Margins

France as a Neutral Zone

New Agers and Space Flight in the 1970s

Limits

3. Androgynous Coupling, Technological Fixes, and the Engineering of Peace

The Buddha of Docking

Engineering for Safety

Moscow to Houston: We Have a Docking Problem

Interfaces and Rehearsals

Lights, Camera, Action

The Objects of Peace and the Exchange of Gifts

The Return to Zero-Sum Back on Earth

The Message Gets Lost in Translation

4. Securitization and Secrecy in the Cold War: The View from Space

Regimes of Secrecy across the Ideological Divide

France and the Desecuritization of Soviet Science and Technology

The Experience of Collaboration

Harbinger of Glasnost'

Zero-Sum Games and the Forces of Fear

Space Travelers of the World Unite!

Role Reversals

Conclusion: Cooperation and ASTP's Enduring Legacies

Imaginative Leaps through Space

The Fate of the Androgynes

End Matter

Bibliography

Index.

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 22 Feb 2022).

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

Print version: Jenks, Andrew L. Collaboration in Space and the Search for Peace on Earth

ISBN:

9781839980442

1839980443

9781839980435

1839980435

OCLC:

1491310476