A Strategic Framework for Space Diplomacy (Paperback)

Paperback. Wars in space will be prevented, if they are prevented, at conference tables - and in May 2023 the United States Department of State published its first playbook for that table: A Strategic Framework for Space Diplomacy, the founding document of American space statecraft as a deliberate discipline, reproduced here in full facsimile. Signed out by the Secretary of State, the Framework organizes a scattered portfolio into three pillars. The first advances space policy through diplomacy: growing the Artemis Accords coalition, building international support for the United States' unilateral moratorium on destructive anti-satellite missile testing, and negotiating the norms, rules, and principles of responsible behavior through the United Nations machinery. The second wields space cooperation as an instrument of broader foreign policy - satellite data for climate resilience, space technology partnerships as development diplomacy, commercial advocacy for an American industry competing against state-backed rivals. The third builds the bench: a Foreign Service trained to negotiate orbital debris standards as fluently as trade terms. The Framework's significance is structural: it claims space as a permanent lane of American diplomacy rather than an occasional technical annex, and its publication marked the State Department's bid for a seat at tables long dominated by NASA and the Pentagon. Read against the military doctrine in this series - particularly the arms-control analysis in the RKHS-extended Space Force Vector, which found verification the highest-affinity unwritten chapter of space doctrine - it supplies the civilian half of the American approach to keeping orbit usable. The official source document is reproduced in full facsimile, with separate editorial apparatus of the public document, produced under 17 U.S.C. 105. For diplomats, arms controllers, space lawyers, and students of how norms are actually built, the Framework is the American opening position, in full. Three years on, the Framework's scorecard is itself instructive: the Artemis Accords coalition more than doubled, the destructive-ASAT-test moratorium gathered United Nations endorsement by overwhelming vote, and space diplomacy acquired the bureaucratic permanence -- offices, training pipelines, dedicated envoys -- that the document prescribed. Readers can therefore use this edition two ways: as the operative statement of American space-diplomatic strategy, and as a baseline for grading its execution. Paired with the military doctrine volumes in this series, it completes the picture of American spacepower as its practitioners actually conceive it -- two instruments, one strategy, with the diplomatic instrument stated here at full length. About this series: Nimble Ultra's American Spacepower Documents collection puts the primary sources of the space age's second great competition into durable, uniform print -- doctrine, strategy, intelligence, oversight, and exploration architecture, each volume an exact and complete facsimile of the official public release, with full bibliographic identification for citation. Government URLs break, documents are revised without notice, and libraries deserve stable copies; these editions fix the record as issued. Collect the doctrine shelf alongside the analytical flagship of the series, the RKHS-extended edition of Space Force Vector 2025. This Nimble Ultra paperback preserves the report as a durable print reference for research, teaching, professional consultation, and library use. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.…