This offer of leading-edge thinking reframe the debate on national security at the dawn of the Third Space Age
During the First Space Age, President Eisenhower rallied democracies to defend freedom while preserving peace at a time when the hydrogen bomb and intercontinental ballistic missiles threatened humanity. Nearly seventy-five years later, the world stands on the cusp of a third era of space exploration, where space is simultaneously a domain for warfighting, diplomacy, science, and commerce.
Waging Peace in Orbit pays tribute to Eisenhower's multidimensional political-economic approach to national security while offering leading-edge thinking about the dawn of today's Third Space Age. While other volumes critique individual space strategies, this book uses a wider lens, adapting the Pathways to Peace framework laid out in Hans Morgenthau's classic Politics among Nations. By enlisting leading experts, this comprehensive volume examines defense strategy, space commercialization, scientific exploration, legal norms, and war planning, providing a holistic understanding of modern issues in space.
Waging Peace in Orbit enlarges the debate on space security in increasingly crowded orbits for policymakers, members of the military, national security professionals, scholars, and students interested in security studies and space policy.
Reviews
"Waging Peace in Orbit is an essential, timely guide to national security in the Third Space Age. This volume bridges theory and practice, making it indispensable for scholars, policymakers, and practitioners seeking to navigate deterrence, cooperation, and conflict in the evolving space domain."—Wendy N. Whitman Cobb, professor of strategy and security studies, School of Advanced Air and Space Studies
"Waging Peace in Orbit is a fresh approach to examining international relations theory, offering a wealth of thought-provoking analysis by leading experts. This work provides a valuable framework for thinking about today's most pressing space security issues and should be in the library of every serious student of space security."—John J. Klein, author, Space Warfare: Strategy, Principles and Policy and Fight for the Final Frontier: Irregular Warfare in Space
"Waging Peace in Orbit is a stimulating and expertly informed collection on emerging military, legal, civil, and commercial challenges in space. With contributions from some of the top minds in the field, this book should be on the shelf of space scholars, practitioners, and policymakers."—James Clay Moltz, professor, Naval Postgraduate School, and author of Crowded Orbits, Asia's Space Race, and The Politics of Space Security
"Drawing on contributions from a diverse range of space policy experts, Waging Peace in Orbit provides theoretical and practical insights into the international, commercial, and technical forces shaping the global balance of power in a New Space Age."—Scott Pace, Space Policy Institute, Elliott School of International Affairs
About the Author
Lynne Chandler Garcia is associate professor in the Department of Political Science at the US Air Force Academy and an editor of American Defense Policy.
Damon Coletta is professor in the Department of Political Science at the US Air Force Academy and an editor of the journal Space & Defense.
Susan Eisenhower is author of How Ike Led: The Principles behind Eisenhower's Biggest Decisions and Partner in Space: US-Russian Cooperation After the Cold War.
