Conflicts in space and the rule of law / edited by Maria Manoli and Sandy Belle Habchi.

Forward signed: Ram S. Jakhu, Director, Institute and Centre of Air and Space Law.

Includes bibliographical references.

Part I. Introduction : -- Protecting planet Earth from military and non-military space threats -- Part II. Technological developments and new threats - weapons systems, space regulation, sustainability and (peaceful) uses of outer space : -- Current and future anti-satellite technologies: What challenges do they present? -- Military uses of outer space and international space law -- Urgent security concerns in the Proto-Zone -- Conflicts related to radio frequency interference, jamming, frequency misuse, abuse of ITU Regulatory procedures -- Space industrial war: Towards a risk of creeping takeovers in the global space industry? -- GOOGLE in space? How will space governance accommodate non-state actors? -- GNSS and conflict: Indian perspective -- Part III. Emerging strategic space issues: areas of potential conflict : -- The road not yet taken for defusing potential conflicts in active debris removal: A multilateral organization -- Space weapons according to Stewart -- Space and security relationships issues from a political and technological point of view -- Selling lunar resources for fun, profit and export: A test that the OST cannot pass? -- Towards a workable explanation of 'celestial bodies': Key principles for avoiding conflicts -- Commercial space as a source of conflicts and the need for 'space pluralism' -- Part IV. Different forms of use of force : -- Space security and cybersecurity: Intersecting challenges -- Legal challenges posed by the action of non-state actor in outer space -- Contested security: Maintaining strategic restraint -- Sorting out self-defence in space: Understanding the conflicting views on self defence in the EU Code of Conduct -- Rules of engagement (ROE) for military space operations -- Part V. The way forward: models for future global space governance. : -- Dark forces awaken: The prospects for space arms control in an adversarial age -- Global space governance and the role of space middle powers -- Real-world lessons on achievable space governance from the International Code of Conduct for Outer Space Activities, the Iran Nuclear Agreement, and the Paris Climate Agreement -- Toward a collective space security -- Space through the lens of neutrality.

"The purpose of this book is to explore all the potential conflicts in all segments of the uses of outer space and discuss the strength of the international regime that governs space activities to regulate emerging space uses as well as to discuss whether the way forward can be based on the traditional international space law regime or whether the need for new rules has yet arrived. The various chapters of this book comprise selected papers that were presented at the 4th Manfred Lachs Conference on Conflicts in Space and the Rule of Law and are authored by a wide caliber of renowned professionals in space-related disciplines, such as professors, academics, diplomats, scientists, lawyers and legal advisors."--Publisher's website.