India in Space: Between Utility and Geopolitics

• Main Author: Aliberti, Marco (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2018.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2018.
• Series: Studies in Space Policy, 14
• Subjects: Aerospace engineering.; Astronautics.; Economic policy.; Political science.; Aerospace Technology and Astronautics.; R & D/Technology Policy.; Political Science.

This book presents the renewing strategic vision and progressive diversification of the Indian space programme at the nexus socio-economic development, commerce and geopolitics. It disentangles India´s evolving rationales for engaging in space from a wide range of perspectives and provides novel and...

Table of Contents:

• Introduction
• India's path in space: a brief history of an evolving endeavour
• Space activities in India: the current landscape
• Understanding India's uses of space: space in India's socio-economic development
• Understandng India's uses of space: space in India's changing geopolitics
• Competition and cooperation in India's space relations
• India's future path in space
• Nurturing the India Opportunity. An European perspective
• Annexes.