ETN-Code: DIPL025
Titel der Veranstaltung: Unispace
Untertitel: Weltraumpolitik - Globale Perspektiven und Diplomatie
Art der Lehrveranstaltung: Kurs
Kreditpunkte: 3
Semester: SoSe 2025/26
Turnus: gemäß Curricula
Semesterwochenstunden: 2
Kursverantwortliche/r: []
Dozent/in: Kreft Heinrich Bernhard [1202000008]
Organisationseinheit: Andrássy Universität Budapest
Ziele und Inhalt des Kurses: Space activities and infrastructure today are more and more critical to international security and the global economy. The space domain is not, however, subject to sovereign control by international law. Like other shared domains, such as the high seas, the polar regions, and arguably cyberspace, space is a domain in which State and non-State actors interact beyond national borders. Given global dependence on space-derived information and an increase in potential adversary threats to space assets, States have taken a number of steps in recent years to protect their national interests in space. The importance of international cooperation and competition in space is increasing by the day. The aim of the course is to give students an overview of international activities in space policy and introduce students to various important national and private space programs starting with the leading national programs of the US (civil (NASA) and military (Pentagon/Space Command)), China, Europe/Germany/France, Russia and India and private companies and programs such as SpaceX, Blue Origin and Starlink in order to give students true global perspectives of space policy and the according diplomacy (cooperation between nations and nations and private companies). The Seminar will be again held in cooperation with the Hungarian University of Public Service (NKE)
Thema der einzelnen Lehreinheiten:
The seminar will be held in English
9. April 2026 13:00 - 18:30
1. Introduction: The importance fo Space
2. The United Nations and the Development of Space Law
3. US space policy ( government and private)
4. China`s Space Policy
10. April 2026 8:30- 18:30
5. Russia´s Space Policy
6. India´s and Japan`s Space Policy
7. . National Space Policy of Germany, Hungary, France, UK and possibly other European Countries
11. April 2026 (:30- 12:00)
8. Space policy of emerging powers, eg. Saudi Arabia, UAE
As it is planned to bring in experts from some of these countries, changes of this program may be necessary to accomodate the availability of these experts.
Empfohlene Literatur (für die Gesamtveranstaltung):
Mandatory literature:
Die Bundesregiereung: Weltraumsicherheitsstrategie, 2025
Nötzold et al. (2024) Strategischer Wettbewerb im Weltraum. Politik, Recht, Sicherheit und Wirtschaft im All
Paladini, S. (2019): The New Frontiers of Space. Palgrave Macmillan, C
Moltke, J. (2014). Crowded Orbits: Conflict and Cooperation in Space. New York Chichester, West Sussex: Columbia University Press.
Cross, M. K. D., & Pekkanen, S. M. (2023). Introduction. Space Diplomacy: The Final Frontier of Theory and Practice. The Hague Journal of Diplomacy, 18(2-3), 193-217.
Stewart, W., & Dittmer, J. (2023). More-than-Human Space Diplomacy: Assembling Internationalism in Orbit. The Hague Journal of Diplomacy, 18(2-3), 219-252.
Recommended literature:
Kreft, H. et al. (2026). Space Security. Defending Europe in Space.
Dripke, A. & Kreft, H. (2025). Kampf ums All
Dubrovina, O. (2022). Russia's “Space” Diplomacy: Why We Should Look Back to the Soviet Years. Histoire, Europe et relations internationales, 2, 39-51.
Małgorzata P. (2020). Space diplomacy - future perspective 121–128.
United States Leads in Space with Diplomacy - US Strategic Framework for Space Diplomacy: https://www.state.gov/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/Space-Framework-Clean-2-May-2023-Final-Updated-Accessible-5.25.2023.pdf
ARBATOV, A., & DVORKIN, V. (Eds.). (2010). Outer Space: Weapons, Diplomacy, and Security. Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctt6wpj66
Space Policy. „International, interdisciplinary journal which draws on the fields of international relations, economics, history, aerospace studies, security studies, development studies, political science and ethics to provide discussion and analysis of space activities in their political, economic, industrial, legal, cultural and social contexts.“
Sprache der Lehrveranstaltung: Deutsch (ger)
Notenskala: praktische Note (fünfstufig)
Form und Umfang der Leistungskontrolle:
For those who want to earn credits for the seminar an essay (Hausarbeit) has to be written after the seminar.
Details will be announced at the beginning of the seminar
Prüfungsanmeldung: über das elektronische Studienverwaltungssystem
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