ABSTRACT
Structural power is central to analysis of international relations, international politics and the global economy. This chapter outlines the importance of structural power to the space sector, and the (perhaps more significant) importance of the space sector to the structural power of nation states. The editors, Lieberman and Köpping-Athanasopoulos use this concluding chapter to discuss the four central aspects of structural power as noted by Strange (1994), security, production, finance and knowledge, focusing on how each relates to, and is enhanced by the global space economy before outlining the conclusions of each chapter.
Finally, the authors note that the edited volume in hand provides only an opening to the debates around the commercialisation of space. As politicians and billionaires compete and collaborate to make ever greater steps in an arena previously dominated by government agencies, scholars, practitioners, stakeholders and academics must address their perspectives to take note of new mixed-market innovations and the impact these will have on structural power and global space economy.
