Space and Defense Call for Papers

December 2, 2008 at 11:22 am | Posted in Space Law Current Events | Leave a comment

by P.J. Blount with the blog faculty

Space and Defense has issued a call for papers:

CALL FOR PAPERS and VIEWPOINT ARTICLES
SPACE and DEFENSE
Academic, Peer-Review Journal
Eisenhower Center for Space and Defense Studies
United States Air Force Academy
Aims and Scope

The Eisenhower Center for Space and Defense Studies at the United States (U.S.) Air Force Academy is named in honor of President Dwight D. Eisenhower. Eisenhower was the first U.S. President to formulate a national policy integrating defense and national interests in the space domain.
The Eisenhower Center publishes an academic, peer-review journal, Space and Defense. The journal exists to provide a forum for discussion of an intellectual and policy foundation for U.S. activities in space. Space and Defense is published both in hardcopy and electronic formats semi-annually, in the Fall and Spring, and is a work of the U.S. Government in the public domain.

It is not the business of journals, but of national leaders and decision makers to rally the U.S. for the challenge of space, to set priorities, and to settle bureaucratic disagreements. If the U.S. succeeds in establishing and formulating an intellectual and strategic vision for the next stage of its activities in space, it will be a product of a shared vision between the President and Congress and the persistence and willingness of those institutions to implement a vision.

The foundation for taking the next steps in space will be improved by vetting these steps through the process of open and honest intellectual debate. Fostering that debate is the mission of the Eisenhower Center through Space and Defense.

Space and Defense seeks contributions that further inquiry and intelligently inform space policy issues. Contributions are sought from: academic scholars and policy analysts at think tanks and research institutes; senior management and policy officials from international and governmental agencies and departments relevant to space issues; military officers and operators in relevant units, commands, and in staff colleges and service academies; senior management and policy officials from major aerospace corporations relevant to space issues; and scientists and engineers interested or involved in space policy issues.

Although the Eisenhower Center is located at the U.S. Air Force Academy, no preference is given in Space and Defense to the Air Force’s position on space policy. We are not advocates, but academics, and conceive our contribution as providing Air Force and government leaders with situational awareness about thinking in other sectors of the space community, as well as in other spacefaring states. . . .

Read the full call here.