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Preventing Conflict in Space:
Costs and Benefits of a U.S. Cooperative Engagement Strategy


January 19, 2006, Noon to 4 PM
Space Policy Institute, George Washington University
1957 E Street NW, 6th Floor, Room 602

Co-sponsored by the Monterey Institute's Center for Nonproliferation Studies (CNS) and the Space Policy Institute of the George Washington University*

Meeting papers will be available in forthcoming issue of the journal Astropolitics (http://www.astropolitics.org/).


Noon -- Buffet lunch and informal discussion

12:45-12:50 -- Welcoming Remarks
Dr. John Logsdon, Space Policy Institute, GW

12:50-1:00 -- Introduction
Dr. Clay Moltz, CNS, Monterey Institute

1:00-1:15 -- "A New U.S.-Sino Space Relationship: Moving toward Cooperation"
Dr. Joan Johnson-Freese, Naval War College

1:15-1:30 -- Questions and Answers

1:30-1:45 -- "Space Engagement with Russia and Ukraine: Preventing Conflicts and Proliferation"
Dr. Victor Zaborsky, University of Georgia

1:45-2:00 -- Questions and Answers

2:00-2:15 -- "U.S.-India Space Partnership: The Jewel in the Crown"
Dr. Randall Correll, SAIC and USAF (ret.)

2:15-2:30 -- Questions and Answers

2:30-2:45 -- Break

2:45-3:00 -- "North and South Korean Space Development: Prospects for Cooperation and Conflict"
Dr. Daniel Pinkston, CNS, Monterey Institute

3:00-3:15 -- Questions and Answers

3:15-3:30 -- "A Really Hard Case: Iranian Space Ambitions and the Prospects for U.S. Engagement"
Dr. John Sheldon, Centre for Defence and International Security Studies, UK, and Editor, Astropolitics

3:30-3:45 -- Questions and Answers

3:45-4:00 -- Wrap-Up Discussion


*The organizers thank the Ploughshares Fund and the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation for grants in support of this event.


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