{"product_id":"dark-skies-9780190903343","title":"Dark Skies","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe book is highly recommended to students of global security, international relations, and geopolitics. * Didem Buhari Gulmez, Izmir Katip Celebi University, New Global Studies *\u003cbr\u003eRemarkable, mesmerizing book * Stewart M. Patrick *\u003cbr\u003eDeudney's research is highly original, empirically rich and driven by (geopolitical) theory.... It finally provides a theoretically-informed account of the possible effects of space expansionism on the security threats facing the Earth and humanity, the nature of the international system and of domestic regimes, and the future of individual and collective freedoms.... The book is highly recommended to students of global security, international relations, and geopolitics. * New Global Studies *\u003cbr\u003eIt is a big book and Deudney covers a great deal of ground, some of it rather difficult, but he does so with lucid and even frequently engaging prose. His criticisms of the arguments of various schools of space advocacy are fair-minded, and they go deep. They shook many of my long-held convictions about the desirability of an ever-expanding human presence in space....excellent. * The New Atlantis *\u003cbr\u003e[A]sustained argument against the militarisation of space and indeed the Promethean excitements of space itself. ...Deudney dismantles the idea that space exploration will lead to a transcendence of the Earth's natural constraints: more likely, he thinks, is total surveillance and an increased risk of 'planetary scope technological catastrophe.' * London Review of Books *\u003cbr\u003eDark Skies: Space Expansionism, Planetary Geopolitics, and the Ends of Humanity [is] a learned, massively documented screed expressing what I think will probably soon become the prevailing view in academic circles * John Wilson, Englewood Review of Books, The Lamp *\u003cbr\u003eDark Skies: Space Expansionism, Planetary Geopolitics, and the Ends of Humanity is a painstakingly researched, historically informed and theoretically sophisticated analysis centered on the disarmingly simple question: Is space colonization desirable? * Byron Williston, Boston Review *\u003cbr\u003eDeudney forensically examines the techno-political worldviews on which various kinds of space expansionism rest. He then systematically takes the arguments apart, showing the dreams of space expansionism to be science fiction, military adventurism, and the vanity projects of billionaires. After his tour de force, we are led back to where we began, here on Earth. An essential book that has been a long time coming. * Clive Hamilton, Professor of Public Ethics, Charles Sturt University in Canberra, and author of Defiant Earth *\u003cbr\u003eI am a dyed-in-the-wool space cadet of long standing, so I am 'the enemy' as far as Deudney is concerned. Yet, this amazingly well-researched and thoughtful book provides a deeply sobering geopolitical reality check for the space expansionists. It is absolutely important that the expansionist program be challenged by the arguments assembled here, and so far there has been no such challenge, or at least nothing nearly so well-informed and bracing as this. Deudney has fired the opening shot in what could one day become the central debate about how humankind charts its future. A landmark achievement from perhaps the most original thinker writing in international relations today. * Barry Buzan, Emeritus Professor of International Relations, London School of Economics *\u003cbr\u003eEarth is the cradle of humanity, but one cannot live in a cradle forever,' wrote the rocketry pioneer Konstantin Tsiolkovsky in 1911. 'If humans are indeed in an infant state, then it also stands to reason that many-if not most-of their visions of the future are essentially infantile as well,' writes Deudney today. His closely reasoned, deeply disturbing, and always fascinating treatise warns humanity to resist dreamy temptations to colonize-and most likely militarize-the solar system and to pursue instead 'space for earth. * Walter A. McDougall, Professor of History, University of Pennsylvania, and Pulitzer-Prize winning author of the Heavens and the Earth: A Political History of the Space Age *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePrologue: MACHINE CIVILIZATION \u0026amp; THE TRANSFORMATION OF THE EARTH Chapter 1. THE PROMISE OF SPACE REVISITED Chapter 2. TOWARD AN ASSESSMENT  PART ONE: GEOGRAPHIC \u0026amp; TECHNOLOGICAL HORIZONS Chapter 3. NEW HEAVENS, NEW EARTH  Chapter 4. TECHNOLOGICAL IMAGINARIES, FEASIBILITIES, SYNDROMES \u0026amp; CATASTROPHES   PART TWO: SPACE EXPANSIONISM \u0026amp; CRITICS Chapter 5. ABSOLUTE WEAPONS, LIGHTNING WARS \u0026amp; ULTIMATE POSITIONS Chapter 6. LIMITLESS FRONTIERS, SPACESHIP EARTHS \u0026amp; HIGHER HUMANITIES Chapter 7. SUPERPOWER RESTRAINTS, PLANETARY SECURITY \u0026amp; EARTH IDENTITY   PART THREE: ASSESSMENT Chapter 8. GEOGRAPHY, GEOPOLITICS AND GEO-HISTORY Chapter 9. EARTH SPACE, PLANETARY GEOPOLITICS \u0026amp; WORLD GOVERNMENTS  Chapter 10. SOLAR SPACE, ISLAND EARTH \u0026amp; THE ENDS OF HUMANITY Conclusion: SPACE FOR EARTH","brand":"Oxford University Press Inc","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49524560068951,"sku":"9780190903343","price":44.85,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780190903343.jpg?v=1731857262","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/dark-skies-9780190903343","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}