Space Supporting Latin America: Latin America's Emerging Space Middle Powers

by Annette Froehlich, Diego Alonso Amante Soria, Ewerton De Marchi

Overview

This book examines the background and context of Latin America's political and socioeconomic landscape with a focus on space activities. Firstly, it discusses Latin America's contribution to this sector from an international relations perspective, and explores the debates around the establishment of a Latin American Space Agency. It then highlights space-related capacity building, Latin America’s participation in UNCOPUOS, and international space activities, agreements, and initiatives in Latin America. The second part is devoted to the national space infrastructures and space activities of Latin American states. It analyzes various spacefaring countries in the context of their intra-regional space relations and initiatives as well as their bi-lateral cooperation programs. This timely book is of interest to scholars and professionals working in the space field, especially those in Latin America and other emerging countries.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9783030385200
Publisher:	Springer International Publishing
Publication date:	04/16/2020
Series:	Studies in Space Policy , #25
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
File size:	37 MB
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About the Author

Dr. Annette Froehlich is a scientific expert seconded from the German Aerospace Center (DLR) to the European Space Policy Institute (Vienna, Austria), and Honorary Adjunct Senior Lecturer at the University of Cape Town (South Africa) at SpaceLab. Responsible for DLR and German representation to the United Nations and International Organizations, she was also a member/alternate head of delegation of the German delegation to UNCOPUOS. Moreover, she has authored many specialist publications and serves as lecturer at various universities worldwide in space policy, law and society aspects. Her research interests focus on European Space Policy, International and Regional Space Law, Emerging Space Countries, Space Security and Space & Culture.

Diego Alonso Amante Soria holds a master’s degree in international law from the University of Grenoble-Alpes, France. His research interests focus on space law, international security, and the system of the United Nations. He has acquired professional experience at the Mexican Ministries of the Interior and Foreign Affairs and the European Space Policy Institute (Vienna, Austria). Passionate about astronomy, he has been at the Mexican Astronomical society for several years.

Ewerton De Marchi is an attorney at law, with a bachelor’s in Law from Federal University of the State of Rio de Janeiro (UNIRIO), Brazil. Currently, he is pursuing a Master's in International and European Law at NOVA University Lisbon, Portugal. His research interests focus on the development of space law, space activities in Latin America and climate change, as well as their intersections.

Table of Contents

Space in Latin America.- Country Reports.