Call for Space related articles for Peace Review Journal

The Global Network has been invited by Peace Review: A Journal of Social Justice, which is published by the Department of Politics at the University of San Francisco, to guest edit an upcoming issue on space-related topics.

This special issue would feature articles from around the world illustrating how the US is developing its new space arms race that will result in "control and domination" of the Earth.  Since all warfare on the planet today is directed via space technology, the Pentagon maintains that it must be the "Master of Space" to ensure US "full spectrum dominance."

Articles could include:

Reports from countries where US Star Wars bases are presently being upgraded for participation in these space warfare programs.

The mounting cost of space technology programs and the resulting cuts in social spending that become necessary in order to move funds into these space warfare research and development programs.

The effects of a space arms race on the hopes for global nuclear disarmament.

The impact of space technology on the surveillance societies of the future and how our civil liberties become victim to the high-tech monitoring of the public.

Updates on international efforts to create new international space treaties to ban all weapons in space.

Research highlighting the growing control of the US Congress, and governments around the world, by the aerospace industrial complex.

The moral and ethical issues surrounding the question of an arms race in space.

Alternative strategies calling for the conversion of the aerospace industry for sustainable technology development that deal with the growing reality of local community addiction to military spending for job creation.

Interested writers should submit essays (2,500-3,000 words) and 2-3 line bios to Bruce Gagnon at globalnet@mindspring.com no later than October 10, 2009 for possible inclusion in the special edition.

Peace Review is a quarterly, multidisciplinary transnational journal of research and analysis focusing on the current issues and controversies that underlie the promotion of a more peaceful world.

Peace Review publishes essays on ideas and research in peace studies, broadly defined. Essays are relatively short (2,500-3,000 words,) contain no footnotes or exhaustive bibliography, and are intended for a wide readership. The journal is most interested in the cultural and political issues surrounding conflicts occurring between nations and peoples. For more information on the journal and issues of style and formatting, see http://www.usfca.edu/peacereview.

Please let me know should you have any questions.

Bruce K. Gagnon
Coordinator
Global Network Against Weapons & Nuclear Power in Space
PO Box 652
Brunswick, ME 04011
(207) 443-9502
http://www.space4peace.org
globalnet@mindspring.com
http://space4peace.blogspot.com