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Article: Incremental steps for achieving space security: the need for a new way of thinking to enhance the legal regime for space.
- Article from:
- Houston Journal of International Law
- Article date:
- March 22, 2006
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I. INTRODUCTION
II. AN EXAMINATION OF THE CURRENT LEGAL REGIME
FOR SPACE IS NECESSARY TO DETERMINE HOW TO
IMPROVE IT
A. The Origins of the Space Regime
B. The Evolution of the Space Environment
1. New Actors Due to the Commercialization of
Space
2. The Reality of Space Weapons
C. The Inability to Attain Consensus on Major
Definitional Aspects of Weaponization
1. What Is a Space Weapon?
2. The Ambiguity of Peaceful Purposes
3. The Lack of Limitations on Dual-Use
Technologies
III. THE CURRENT LEGAL REGIME FOR SPACE CAN ONLY
BE ENHANCED IF U.S. INTERESTS AND ...