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2013 | OriginalPaper | Chapter

17. Scrutinising the Race

Author : Ajey Lele

Published in: Asian Space Race: Rhetoric or Reality?

Publisher: Springer India

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Abstract

Race is essentially a contest of speed. It is about one-upmanship, it is about beating the opponent/s, and it is about demonstrating that you are better than others. Race is all about dominating, winning and signifying ‘power’. From sociology to sports and science to security, the connotation of the word ‘race’ remains the same, but only the context changes. In the realm of international politics, the race is essentially viewed as a competition amongst nation-states. Essentially, technology plays a dominating role in this race and helps to prove the superiority of the state. Particularly, the military technologies play a major role in deciding the power equations.

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Footnotes
1
http://www.answers.com/topic/arms-race-overview\#ixzz1i5wFjLQt, accessed on Jan 1, 2012.
 
2
British-American strategic thinker and professor of International Relations and Strategic Studies at the University of Reading, where he is the director of the Centre for Strategic Studies.
 
3
Mahan is famous for his masterwork on sea power (The Influence of Sea Power upon History, 1660–1783[1890]).
 
4
Introduction by Collin Gray for: Jim Oberg, Space Power Theory, Publication by National Space Studies Center Air University Maxell, US Air Force Academy, 1999, pp. xiii–xv.
 
6
Dark side of the moon”, Socialist Review, July/August 1999, Issue 232.
 
7
For the first time since the dawn of the space age, China’s Long March rocket family eclipsed the annual flight rate of the US fleet of space launchers, http://​www.​space.​com/​14048-china-satellite-launch-breaks-rocket-record.​html, accessed on Jan 9, 2011.
 
10
‘Satellite launch business faces cloudy future’, Dec. 28, 2011, http://​www.​japantimes.​co.​jp/​text/​nb20111228a1.​html, accessed on Jan 9, 2012.
 
11
For details on this please refer Asif A. Siddiqi, ‘An Asian Space Race: Hype or Reality?’ In Subrata Ghoshroy and Gotz Neuneck (eds), South Asia at a Crossroads, Nomos, Hamburg, 2010, pp.184–198.
 
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Metadata
Title
Scrutinising the Race
Author
Ajey Lele
Copyright Year
2013
Publisher
Springer India
Book
Asian Space Race: Rhetoric or Reality?

Print ISBN: 978-81-322-0732-0

Electronic ISBN: 978-81-322-0733-7

Copyright Year: 2013

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-81-322-0733-7_17

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