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Heightened awareness of the importance of space security as a crucial building block for the long-term sustainability of outer space has led to a shift in the international community in its thinking on how to approach space activities. The upshot is the current proliferation of ideas and initiatives on how to improve security in the space environment. This article lays out some of the foundations that are being discussed in those initiatives and details some of the approaches that are being taken.
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The persistent objector principle in which a State has consistently declared that it does not consider a certain provision to be customary international law and as such does not see itself bound by it. See Harris, DJ. Cases and Materials in International Law. London: Sweet & Maxwell, 1998: 42.
United Nations Committee on the Peaceful Uses of Outer Space. Space Debris Mitigation Guidelines. UN Doc. A/62/20 of 10 January 2008. Vienna: United Nations. Adopted by: United Nations General Assembly. Resolution on International Cooperation in the Peaceful Uses of Outer Space. UN Doc. A/62/217 of 1 February 2008. New York: United Nations.
Considered to be customary international law as well as to be found the Article 2(4) of the Charter of the United Nations — See Nicaragua Case. Case Concerning Military and Paramilitary Activities in and Against Nicaragua. I.C.J. Reports 186, p. 14 at para. 176.
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Baseley-Walker, B. (2010). Current international space security initiatives. In: Rathgeber, W., Schrogl, KU., Williamson, R.A. (eds) The Fair and Responsible Use of Space. Studies in Space Policy, vol 4. Springer, Vienna. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-211-99653-9_10
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