Natalie Bormann teaches at the Department of Politics at Northeastern University, Boston, USA. Previously she held a position at the Watson Insititute for International Studies, Brown University. She is the author of National Missile Defence and the Politics of US Identity: A Poststructuralist Critique.

Michael Sheehan is Professor of International Relations at the University of Wales, Swansea. His publications include The International Politics of Space; International Security: An Analytical Survey; National and International Security; Balance of Power: History and Theory; The Arms Race; and Arms Control: Theory and Practice.

Introduction 1. Unbundling Sovereignty, Territory and the State in Outer Space: Two Approaches 2. Space Weapons - Dream, Nightmare or Reality? 3. Critical Astropolitics: The Geopolitics of Space Control and the Transformation of State Sovereignty 4. The Spaces between Us: The Gendered Politics of Outer Space 5. The Lost Dimension: A Spatial Reading of US Weaponisation of Space 6. Haunted Dreams: Critical Theory, Technology and the Militarization of Space 7. The (power) Politics of Space: The US Astropolitical Discourse on Global Dominance in the War on Terror 8. Between Blind Faith and Deep Scepticism: The 'Weaponisation of Space' and the Canadian Debate on Ballistic Missile Defence 9. The Mice that Soar: Smaller States Perspectives on Space Weaponisation 10. Profaning the Path to the Sacred: The Militarisation of the European Space Programme 11. Neo-Realism and the Galileo and GPS Negotiations 12. Pol Sci-Fi 101: Lessons from Science Fiction Television for Global and Outer Space Politics