European Journal of International Security

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Publishing theoretical, methodological and empirical papers at the cutting-edge of research into international and global security challenges.

As I said in a @ejisbisa.bsky.social article, the public nad private are intertwined in capitalist space powers. What the private sector doing today is more 'retrofitting', mixing old technologies with modern/mature iterations in a public-private political-economy. www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

'Even with mostly privately funded ventures, a ‘linear expectation of an entirely business-driven “New Space” scenario is illusory’, and instead a complex co-evolution between a mix of public, semi-public, and a range of small and large private actors continues. This is not to deny incremental or noteworthy technical changes, but claims to political–economic revolution are overblown when what is seen is the paradox of retrofit connecting tethers between old innovations and new variants, between the past and present, furthering the supremacy of the same space system builders, in particular the United States'
Gerry Doyle@mgerrydoyle.bsky.social · last wk.

I also like the "shoulders of giants" point near the bottom about how the starship heat shield is based on nasa projects arstechnica.com/space/2026/0...