NICOLAS PETER
[Winter 2007, Volume XX, Issue VII]
INTRODUCTION
Since the end of the Cold War and the collapse of the U.S.S.R, the United States has been the dominant geopolitical actor in the world, with the Western European states as its allies. Furthermore, trans-Atlantic relations were an important axis of cooperation in foreign policy, the economy, science and technology, and especially space activities. The U.S. policy regarding international space activities has in the last few decades evolved and fluctuated between cooperation and competition, depending on the topic and the times. The US has …