Abstract
It is my pleasure to introduce the first piece in a the Deutsch Security Square new series of occassional exchanges on topical security issues of the day. In this pioneering conversation, Nikola Schmidt and Bohumil Dobos, both with the Faculty of Social Sciences, Charles University discuss the future of European astropolitics.
The exchange was stimulated by Dobos' article 'Geopolitics of the Moon: A European Perspective' published by Astropolitics 13(2015):1. Schmidt challenges Dobos' case for desirability of 'colonising' the Moon to prevent access denial of space exploration by potentially hostile actors by pointing to several political, legal and technical issues that problematise this position, leading to dialectical development of Dobos' argument and situating it in a broader context of EU's strategy.
Ondrej Ditrych, D.SQ Coordinator