EU Space Doctrine – Sustainable Development or a New Arms Race

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by Larysa Soroka1 and Anna Danylenko2
1 Scientific Institute of Public Law (Kyiv, Ukraine)
2 Information Analysis Center for Aerospace Law (Kyiv, Ukraine)
DOI: https://doi.org/10.29202/asl/13/4
Received: 15 April 2024 / Accepted: 15 May 2024 / Published: 1 July 2024

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Abstract

Strategic documents of the European Union (EU) in the space sphere are analyzed in this Article. It is concluded that despite the active use of the “space doctrine” concept in the EU, regulating public legal relations through the establishment and adoption of the corresponding branch doctrine it is not an ongoing practice. The author substantiates the view that the “space doctrine” concept is not sufficiently studied today. Despite the claim that the term “doctrine” is of military origin, security and defense doctrine can be a tool of command, of education, or transformation. The dialectic-materialistic method of cognition was used as a general scientific method, which enabled to carry out a comprehensive scientific analysis of doctrinal provisions in the development of the concept of the EU space doctrine, which is proposed to be used as a unifying term for the latest European acts in the field of space security and defense.

Keywords: space doctrine, space activity, space policy, Strategic Compass, Security, Defense, EU Space Strategy, arms race.

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