First Space Colony: What Political System Could We Expect?

Schmidt, Nikola; Boháček, Petr

doi:10.1016/j.spacepol.2021.101426

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“…SAD i Luksemburg su 2015, odnosno 2017. godine donele zakone o svemirskom rudarstvu (Doboš 2020, 247). Sa druge strane, neki od najbogatijih pojedinaca sveta, poput Ilona Maska (Ilon Musk), Džefa Bezosa (Jeff Bezos) i Ričarda Bransona (Richard Branson) počeli da aktivno investiraju u razvoj kompanija, nalik na trgovačke korporacije iz perioda zapadne kolonizacije sveta, sa ciljevima koji variraju od svemirskog rudarstva i svemirskog turizma, pa čak do kolonizacije drugih planeta (Launius and Jenkins 2006;Schmidt and Bohacek 2021). Štaviše, čak i potencijalne opasnosti koje dolaze iz svemira, prevashodno komete i asteroidi blizu Zemlje (near-Earth objects), sve su češće u fokusu istraživača i međunarodnih organizacija i država (videti: Schmidt 2019).…”

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Outer space as a geographical domain: A contribution to laying the foundations for astropolitics

Kopanja

2021

Medjunar probl

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The paper presents an effort to contribute to the foundations of astropolitics by presenting the central characteristics of outer space as a geographical domain. Given that current international trends point to the increasingly active role of states and private companies in the utilization of space, understanding the opportunities and limitations that the environment of outer space poses on human action represents the foundation of a systematic analysis of the international politics of outer space. Starting from the assumption that space can be viewed as a geographical domain, similar to land, sea or air, the paper presents key physical characteristics of space and the central problem fields of the social constitution of space, which are then placed in the context of geopolitical thought. The paper is divided into three parts where the first part provides a brief history of astropolitical thought, the second presents the universe as a geographical domain by identifying physical and social properties of the space environment, and the third part observes the space environment through the ?ecological triad? of Harold and Margaret Sprout and Harvey Starr?s ?opportunity and willingness? framework to explain how the physical and social properties of outer space impact international politics. The author concludes that, since outer space will be a more and more important area in the future, academic study of international relations in space will be increasingly relevant, thus requiring knowledge of the basics of astropolitics, i.e., outer space itself and the features that characterize it as a geographical domain.

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