The Issue Of Airspace And Outer Space Delimitation And Its Potential Impact On Global Security
The Issue Of Airspace And Outer Space Delimitation And Its Potential Impact On Global Security

Summary/Abstract: Although there is currently a fundamental difference in the international law applicable to airspace and outer space, paradoxically, a border between the two environments has not yet been traced and agreed at international level by the instrumentality of treaties, conventions or agreements. Such delimitation represents an indispensable condition for applying and enforcing the principles that make up the legislative bodies specific for the two environments, but also for a better management of the security issues that concern the operation in the two environments. In the context of the accelerated technological development and the emergence of private actors in the area of space activities, this gap in international law can generate a number of negative consequences on global security, which we will try to identify in this paper.

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