This project focuses on key trends, developments, and challenges related to outer space activities with the aim to examine the interplay between space policy and international relations.
The LSE IDEAS Space Policy project is home to Space Policy: An International Journal and hosts public lectures and events at LSE.
From the growing militarisation and commercialisation of space activities to new spacefaring nations and pressing challenges such as space debris, the intersection between space policy and international relations has become more important than ever. Examining the domestic and external influences that shape space policy and strategies and their implications for the study and conduct of international relations from a global perspective can help us to understand better the dynamic interaction between space technology and global order as well as enhance space policy decision making. To this end, LSE IDEAS Space Policy seeks to bring together academics and practitioners to share insights into the evolving relationship between space policy and international politics with the aim to inform space policy decision making and the public.
Research Clusters
- Space Statecraft: The High Frontier in International Relations
- The Global Governance of Space Activities: Developments, Challenges, and Global Strategies
- Space Policy and the Global South
- Space Technology and Change in Global Politics