Abstract
The purpose of the article is to analyze ESP in the context of different modes of governance. Assuming that ESP is a unique and multidimensional product of dynamic political, technological, and social processes and ideas coordinated by the EU, its member states as well as non-member ones and implemented in an international environment, there are some research questions to be answered. First, is there any particular mode of governance that should be applied to the analysis of ESP implementation? Second, in what way the EU introduced space policy and space assets to the European agenda? Third, how ESP can be framed within the overall process of European integration? A qualitative research approach has been applied as well as theoretic apparatus embedded in European integration studies and political science. The main finding of the article is that the most promising way of governance within ESP is experimentalist governance. The originality of the article results from the application of the newly established experimentalist governance theory to an analysis of the increasingly important segment of EU activity.
Highlights
The space policy of the European Union is a multidimensional and long-term planned policy of intertwined processes and political, economic, and social ideas characterized by complex dynamics, taking place in a multipolar international environment
The European Union carries out political activities in Europe, formulating strategies and objectives on the global level and provides stimuli for the development of the space services market and European space industry as well as contributes to structural changes in outer space governance, providing space services such as the Galileo satellite navigation signal or Copernicus
The second element is limiting the governance area to the supranational and national arena, which would mean that the governments of the Member States will not introduce regulations regarding space policy in their legal systems, as this is within the competence of the Union
Summary
The space policy of the European Union is a multidimensional and long-term planned policy of intertwined processes and political, economic, and social ideas characterized by complex dynamics, taking place in a multipolar international environment. This is an example of a unique European policy because it has been aimed at, implemented with, and planned for the EU Member States, non-EU countries, European space-faring states, space-faring powers as well as countries with growing aspiration in space (Madders, 1997). While seeking to build its space regime, the EU promotes experimentalist modes of governance that it has developed internally in various areas, in space policy
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