Politics of outer space

The first page of the 1963 treaty that banned nuclear tests in the atmosphere, outer space and under water

The politics of outer space refers to the political implications and effects of efforts to expand our human awareness and presence beyond the Earth’s atmosphere.

This field of politics includes:

  • space policies, which refer to legislation or guidelines that govern how decisions made by states and international organizations should be put into operation.
  • international relations, which refer to the patterns of competition, cooperation, and governance through which states and other actors organize the use of space for security, economic, and political purposes.
  • geopolitics which refers to the organization and contestation of power through the material infrastructures, spatial arrangements, and governing regimes that structure access to, use of, and control over outer space and its connections to Earth.
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