Thomas Hörber is Full Professor at the EU-Asia Institute, ESSCA - School of Management, Angers, France.

Paul Stephenson is Marie Curie Research Fellow at Sciences Po, Paris, and Assistant Professor at the Department of Political Science, Maastricht University, The Netherlands.

Introduction: Space - Towards a European Space Policy? Thomas HoerberSection 1 Methodology / Setting the space agenda 1 Historical background and context of space policy with regards to European integration Thomas Hoerber. 2Approaches to analyzing European Space Policy: framing and other tools Paul Stephenson. Section 2 Polity / Institutional Perspectives 3 The European Space Agency vis-à-vis the EU and its member states Thomas Hoerber. 4The European Parliament Emmanuel Sigalas.5 The Council Harald Köpping. 6The European Commission Paul Stephenson. 7The European Court of Justice. Section 3 Politics / Internal and External PerspectivesInternal 8 The role of European industrialists in lobbying for space policy. 9 Trans-European networks and the management of the single market area from space Paul Stephenson. 10The European Metal Workers' Federation and EU defence and space policies: framing or hegemony? Iraklis Oikonomou. External 11 Contextualising EU space policy - US, Russian and Chinese space programmes Bertrand de Montluc. 12 Space as a field and tool of international relations Veronica La Regina. 13 Space policy meets the common foreign security policy Geoffrey Edwards. Section 4 Policy Process / Implementing space policy14 Public Private Partnership PPP and Galileo: PPPs in national and transnational contexts Jakob Feyerer. 15 Towards a EU Industrial Policy for the Space Sector - Lessons from Galileo Rik Hansen. 16 The role of Galileo satellite technology in the GMES for security, safety and environmental protection in EU maritime regions Angela Carpenter. Conclusion: 'To boldly go where no one has gone before: towards a European Space Strategy Thomas Hoerber.