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Techno-Political Space Cooperation: A Longitudinal Analysis of NASA's Bilateral and Multilateral AgreementsNASA's international programs are both numerous and successful, with over two thousand international agreements forming a foundation of U.S. government cooperation that involved over half the United Nation's membership. Previous research, by the author, into these agreements has identified five variables underlying NASA's international cooperation efforts and these variables form a framework for explaining international cooperation behavior on a macro-level. This paper builds upon that research to effectively explain lower-level patterns of cooperation in NASA's experience. Two approaches for analyzing the space agency's history are used: aggregation of all agreements and a cluster (disaggregated) analysis of four key segments. While researchers of NASA's international cooperation often considered individual cases first, and then generalize to macro-level explanations. This study, in contrast, begins by considering all agreements together in order to explain as much as possible at the macro level before proceeding to lower tier explanations. These lower tier assessments are important to understanding regional and political influences on bilateral and multilateral cooperation. In order to accomplish this lower-tier analysis, the 2000 agreements are disaggregated into logical groupings enabling an analysis of important questions and clearer focus on key patterns concerning developing states, such as the role of international institutions or privatization on international cooperation in space technology.
Document ID
20120003426
Acquisition Source
Kennedy Space Center
Document Type
Conference Paper
Authors
Hudiburg, John J. (NASA Kennedy Space Center Cocoa Beach, FL, United States)
Date Acquired
August 25, 2013
Publication Date
October 5, 2004
Subject Category
Law, Political Science And Space Policy
Report/Patent Number
KSC-2004-110
IAC-04-IISL.2. 11
Meeting Information
Meeting: 55th International Astronautical Congress
Location: Vancouver, BC
Country: Canada
Start Date: October 5, 2004
Distribution Limits
Public
Copyright
Public Use Permitted.

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