The Space Law Stalemate
eBook - ePub

The Space Law Stalemate

Legal Mechanisms for Developing New Norms

  1. 232 pages
  2. English
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eBook - ePub

The Space Law Stalemate

Legal Mechanisms for Developing New Norms

About this book

The governing international space law regime has been locked in a norm-creation stalemate for over 40 years. This stalemate endangers the preservation of established, guiding legal principles, as well as the sustainability of the parts of outer space that humans utilize. The discrepancy between norm creation, technological advancement, and the ecosystem of novel actors could generate serious consequences for future space activities and the nature of international relations. Besides the return of old rivalries in a New Cold War, new activities and actors emerging amidst a legal void emphasizes the risks of the stalemate: unstable peace, fragile cooperation, uneven technological development, and uncertain eco-sustainability. The prolonged legal stalemate cannot be treated simply as an academic question, for it has broader political and economic implications of growing strategic relevance. Unresolved issues in international space law could threaten the survival of space as a global common, thus it is essential that the ability of the norm-creation mechanism of UN COPUOS is equipped to address the ongoing changes and provide for adequate global governance. This book evaluates the current legal state and sheds light on potential future prospects, offering an overview of the political context within which it developed, providing an assessment of the selected successful examples in international law, and analyzing lessons learned. It makes recommendations for how the UN COPUOS legal apparatus should be modified in order to ensure that future space activities are possible beyond anarchy, greed, and ecological irresponsibility, and to ensure that the principle of the peaceful uses of outer space remains the governing norm.

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Yes, you can access The Space Law Stalemate by Anja Nakarada Pecujlic,Anja Pečujlić in PDF and/or ePUB format, as well as other popular books in Law & International Law. We have over one million books available in our catalogue for you to explore.

Information

Publisher
Routledge
Year
2023
Print ISBN
9781032300726
eBook ISBN
9781000830217
Edition
1
Topic
Law
Index
Law

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Half Title
  3. Series
  4. Title
  5. Copyright
  6. Dedication
  7. Contents
  8. Acknowledgments
  9. Abbreviations
  10. Introduction
  11. I Space law: historical and institutional background
  12. II The current state of the space domain
  13. III The changing global context
  14. IV Necessity of new internationally binding norms in space law
  15. V Alternative ways of law-making
  16. VI Key findings and strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, threats analysis
  17. Conclusion
  18. A. Bibliography
  19. Index