Reviews for Air Force Role in Developing International Outer Space Law

The average rating for Air Force Role in Developing International Outer Space Law based on 2 reviews is 4 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2019-07-04 00:00:00 Helen Matteson The Short Version first ... Concepts of national territory are based upon centuries of claims, laws, and jurisprudence governing rights of ownership, rights of passage, and other forms of legalise. The more recent developments in International Outer Space Law occurred in the mid-1950s and continue to this day. Mr. Terrill addresses the history and the development of a new construct in the law governing national sovereignty - the national rights of overflights by a country's spacecraft. Since this issue arose with the initial orbiting by an unmanned Russian satellite in the 1950's, the rules of national sovereignty have taken on a new concern for all nations of the world. Overflights with spacecraft equipped with cameras capable of taking closeup features including missile silos, secret projects sites, and military drills and deployments of troops, ships, aircraft, and other preparations for military action. Since that initial overflight of the Sputnik satellite, United States Air Force, Army, and Navy forces have worked to establish some type framework for discussion and regulation of space-borne surveillance and even manned spacecraft orbiting the Earth. The work being reviewed takes a brief review of these discussions and negotiations in the national interests of the United States of America, specifically as addressed by the United States Air Force. At first the interests were aligned to insure that military overflights would be addressed first followed by the passage of

Review # 2 was written on 2008-06-22 00:00:00 Specer Burgon In addition to Collin’s book, pictured here, Oxford University Press published two other texts in its “Marxist Introductions” series: Marxism and Literature by Raymond Williams and Marxism and Politics by Ralph Miliband. All are rather mis-titled as “introductions” because each is an original work of considerable scholarship - especially the one by Williams which started a whole new type of literary criticism called “cultural materialism.” Collins work also breaks new ground in the (still) relatively unexplored area of Marxist legal theory and jurisprudence. His book includes a detailed, subtle, and illuminating historical overview of the methodology of historical materialism and the manner in which that approach views law, especially law in a capitalist society. Collins is careful to distance his discussion of the Marxist understanding of legal forms from the politics and government of so-called communist states such as the People’s Republic of China which, he argues, simply utilize Marx’s ideas for legitimation. He carefully dissects the Marxian notion that the state - and its legal apparatus - is simply an instrument of class domination and the crude economistic idea that law in capitalist societies is only a reflection of a more basic economic structure. Collins also examines - and rejects - more recent attempts like those of GA Cohen to link the legal “superstructure” of a society to an “economic” base. Marxist thinkers such as Gramsci and Althusser are more congenial to him, as they help to define a more useful theory of the ideology of the ruling class. For Collins, law is neither directly determined by the relations of production nor is it an independent form of thought. It is created through what he calls “a dialogue with the background dominant ideology on the basis of the formal constraints of coherence and consistency.” Or, as he elsewhere more concretely puts it: “The judge’s aim may be to treat like cases alike, but we can be sure that definitions of similarly and difference are determined by criteria supplied by the ideology of the dominant class.” For Collins, the chief role of a Marxist lawyer (an experience he elsewhere calls “schizoid”) is to help demystify the concept of the Rule of Law. In the last chapter of his book he discusses several strategies for accomplishing this objective. This is a challenging book to digest, partly because of the complexity of Collin’s argument and because of the subject matter itself. But I’m glad I made the effort. To preview a little: I’m now reading two other interesting books; one made what turned out to be a controversial argument in educational theory ( ED Hirsch Jr’s Cultural Literacy and a collection of essays by one of my favourite philosophers, Moral Luck, by Bernard Williams. Wish me luck!