Forty Years to Nowhere

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Senior Researcher Jessica West will deliver a virtual lecture to the Space Governance Lab course on “space-cyber governance ”at Indiana University on the topic of security governance at the United Nations. Titled “Forty Years to Nowhere,” she traced the history of competing efforts to prevent an arms race in outer space (PAROS) and their continued relevance today.

Representing an effort to bridge competing approaches, Jessica detailed the discussions that took place in the recently completed Open-Ended Working Group on Reducing Space Threats. Although this process ended without a consensus outcome, she pointed the new topics, ideas, and cross-regional engagement and cooperation as signs of it’s enduring value going forward.