IMPACTUL SECURITAR AL MILITARIZĂRII SPAŢIULUI COSMIC

Authors

  • Alba Iulia Catrinel POPESCU Membru afiliat al Comitetului Român pentru Istoria și Filosofia Științei și Tehnicii (CRIFST) din cadrul Academiei Române https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7354-213X

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.53477/2065-8281-22-54

Abstract

Competiţia pentru cucerirea militară a spaţiului cosmic a dominat agenda publică în perioada Războiului Rece, fiind expresia în plan spaţial a competiţiei geopolitice dintre Occidentul capitalist şi Răsăritul comunist. Având ca punct de pornire cercetările pentru dezvoltarea armamentului strategic, marile puteri ale perioadei postbelice au lansat programe spaţiale cu caracter militar, transformând spaţiul cosmic într-un teatru de operaţii cât se poate de real. Teatru, momentan, degrevat, prin Tratatul privind spaţiul cosmic, de armele de nimicire în masă. Cu toate acestea, nereglementarea acţiunilor militare în spaţiul cosmic şi, mai ales, problemele legate de definirea limitei dintre spaţiul cosmic şi spaţiul atmosferic, pot oricând deveni explozive. Acest articol îşi propune să prezinte principalele puteri spaţiale, programele militare spaţiale pe care le derulează şi potenţialul impact securitar al militarizării spaţiului cosmic.

 

Author Biography

Alba Iulia Catrinel POPESCU, Membru afiliat al Comitetului Român pentru Istoria și Filosofia Științei și Tehnicii (CRIFST) din cadrul Academiei Române

Alba Iulia Catrinel Popescu is Associate Professor at the National College of Defense Bucharest and "Carol I" National Defense University, Visiting Professor at University of Business and Enterprise in Ostrowiec Swietokrzyski - Poland and University of Bucharest, Romania. She is also member of the Romanian Committee of History and Philosophy of Science and Technology of the Romanian Academy, member of the "Ion Conea" Romanian Association for Geopolitics and member of the international advisory board of the Research Institute for European and American Studies, Greece. She already published five books - “What hides behind Boko Haram” (a monographic study about one of the bloodiest terrorist organization), “The Shadow Player” (an extensive and integrate analysis about Sub-Saharan Africa’s pivot zone character), “Geopolitical Kaleidoscope” (a collection of analyses in geopolitics and geostrategy), "Uncomfortable Analysis" (a collection of studies in geopolitics), "Geopolitics and pandemics" (a study regarding the geopolitical impact of the current pandemics), the first two volumes of the "Treaty of Geopolitics" (The Geopolitics of the Maritime Power and The Geopolitics of the Continental Power), other studies in security and demography as well as numerous articles regarding strategic analysis and geopolitics.

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