Space Security

This book is essential reading for anyone concerned with Europe's future in space. Space has become a strategic domain of critical importance - not only for economic growth, but also for security and defence. To meet this urgent challenge, leading voices from politics, business, and science have contributed to this volume and outlined concrete measures - both immediate and strategic - that Europe must take to defend its security and interests in space. Forward bei Andrius Kubilius, EU Commissioner for Defence and Space.

Authors: Dr. Josef Aschbacher, Director General European Space Agency ESA; Dr. Balasz Bartoki-Gönczy, Vice Dean University of Public Administration Budapest; Dr. Bohumil Dobos, Associate Prof. Charles University Prague; Andreas Dripke, Executive Chair Diplomatic Council; Dr. Enrico Fels, Managing Director CASSIS, University Bonn; Dr. Namrata Goswami, Prof. for Space Security, John Hopkins University; Minister Florian Hahn, German Federal Foreign Office, MdB; Prof. Dr. Mahulena Hofmann, SES Chair in Space, SatCom and Media Law, University Luxembourg; Prof. Dr. Heinrich Kreft, Ambassador (ret.), President Diplomatic Council, Program Director at the Diplomatic Academy of the German Foreign Office; Andrius Kubilius, EU Commissioner for Defence and Space; Dr. Ciro Maddaloni, Ministry Innovation and Technologies (ret.); Hang Nguyen, Publisher Diplomatic Council; Dr. habil Antje Nötzold, Private Lecturer and Research Associate, Chemnitz University of Technology & University of the Federal Armed Forces; Almudena Azcarate Ortega, Lead Space Security Researcher & WMD Programmes, United Nations Institute for Disarmament Research; Dr. Xavier Pasco, Director Fondation pour la Recherche Strategique, Paris; Clemence Poirier, Senior Researcher ETH Zurich; Dr. Dumitru-Dorin Prunariu, Lt.-Gen. (ret.), First Romanian in Space, former President of the Romanian Space Agency, ; Juan Carlos Cortes, Director General of the Spanish Space Agency; Jochen M. Richter, Chair Diplomatic Council Global Security Forum; Andrea Rotter, Head of Division Foreign and Security Policy, Hanns Seidel Foundation; Juliana Suess, Researcher, Security Policy Group, Strategic Threat Analysis and Nuclear (Dis-)Order Project, German Institute for International and Security Affairs (SWP); Matthias Wachter, Managing Director New Space Initiative, BDI Head of Department International Cooperation, Security, Raw Materials, Space.

Andrea Rotter is Deputy Director of the Academy for Politics and Current Affairs at the Hanns Seidel Foundation in Munich, where she heads the Division for Foreign and Security Policy. Since July 2025, she has also served as a Non-Resident Fellow at the American-German Institute (AGI) at Johns Hopkins University in Washington, D.C. Her research focuses on transatlantic security cooperation as well as German and European security and defense policy. Currently, she examines the evolution of Germany's strategic culture, the transformation of NATO in response to Russia's war of aggression against Ukraine, as well as space security and the impact of disruptive technologies. Previously, she worked in the "Americas" research division at the German Institute for International and Security Affairs (SWP) and taught at the University of Regensburg. She contri­buted to the CDU/CSU parliamentary commission on "Peace and Security in Europe", was a Visiting Fellow at GMF and AGI, and a member of the "Young Foreign Policy Experts" working group at the Federal Academy for Security Policy (BAKS). Andrea Rotter is an alumna of the IVLP (U.S. Depart­ment of State) and the Manfred Wörner Seminar, and serves on the extended board of WIIS Germany.