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European Space Policy: European Integration and the Final Frontier addresses developments in European space policy and their significance for European integration in terms of general institutional arrangements and decision-making through the ever closer cooperation between the ESA and the EU. In doing so, it addresses questions central to European studies with significant political dimension as it forms an interdisciplinary bridge between current research in space policy and contemporary European political studies. Key questions include:

• What can space policy contribute to European identity formation and the integration process?

• What are the interests of member states/EU institutions in space, and how do they frame them?

• How is space policy perceived by European institutions, and how have they been engaged in the policy process to promote activity in space?

• In which ways is the EU engaged in space, in terms of policy areas (foreign policy, single market, climate change etc.) and vis-à-vis other regional blocs?

It will be of key interest to scholars and actors in a range of policy areas including common foreign security policy, technology policy, transport policy and internal market.

• Hardcover: 240 pages
  
• Publisher: Routledge (July 7, 2015)
  
• ISBN-10: 113802550X
  
• ISBN-13: 978-1138025509