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James Clay Moltz is chairman of the Department of National Security Affairs at the Naval Postgraduate School, where he also holds a joint faculty appointment in the Space Systems Academic Group. He is the author of
Crowded Orbits: Conflict and Cooperation in Space (2014) and
Asia's Space Race: National Motivations, Regional Rivalries, and International Risks (2012).
List of contents
Introduction
1. The Dynamics of Space Security: Existing Explanations
2. Space and Environmental Security
3. Roots of the U.S.-Soviet Space Race: 1920s-1962
4. The Emergence of Cooperative Restraint: 1962-1975
5. Challenges to Space Security and Their Resolution: 1976-1991
6. Post-Cold War Space Uncertainty: 1992-2000
7. Renewed U.S. Space Nationalism: 2001-2008
8. Expanding International Norms amid Tensions: 2009-Present
9. Alternative Futures for Space Security
About the author
James Clay Moltz is chairman of the Department of National Security Affairs at the Naval Postgraduate School, where he also holds a joint faculty appointment in the Space Systems Academic Group. He is the author of
Crowded Orbits: Conflict and Cooperation in Space (2014) and
Asia's Space Race: National Motivations, Regional Rivalries, and International Risks (2012).
Summary
A political history of space weapons and arms control issues covering the 1957-2007 period.