Malay Muslims in Thailand s southern provinces are demanding their own political space.

Liberal democracy assumes just the opposite space for different perspectives and for political alternatives.

This option depends on international political efforts to oppose the weaponization of outer space.

It alters the political economy of decision making, creating space for new ideas to thrive.

Similar political declarations by space Powers, of course, will not and cannot replace a legally binding instrument on preventing the deployment of weapons in outer space.

Whereas the latter champion the concept of one political space that would include the two banks of the Jordan River, the Israelis respond with their own concept of one political space between the Mediterranean and the Jordan River.

If all the leading space Powers were to take a similar political step, we could make a real contribution to reducing the motivation to weaponize outer space.

Session Three Elements of National Multilateral Political, Legal or Legislative Instruments to Regulating Weapons in Space

However, political willingness is not enough to maintain outer space peaceful, and needs to be combined with legal binding instruments to restrict the development and deployment of space weapons.

Otherwise, the region seems destined to become a porous economic and political space buffeted by uncertainty and instability.

To secure lasting peace, the key is to develop political mechanisms that allow space for moderation and democracy.

Putting limited restrictions on the use of outer space by relying on international pressure and national political willingness.

Therefore, we don't find the moral, emotional, psychological and political space to distance ourselves from the reality of social responsibility.

In Pakistan, a discredited military was forced by public opinion to withdraw from power, creating political space for elected representatives.

The international community s challenge will be to help ensure that the political space claimed by the Kenyan public remains open.

Clearly, the Annan mission gave the regime some breathing space and created a temporary illusion of political and diplomatic progress.

To begin with its strengths, the nation state remains the only political space in which the constitution of liberty thrives.

Many bilateral investment agreements had caused a large number of disputes since they did not consider the national political space contexts.

These reports fostered a public debate on human rights, demonstrating that the peace process was opening political space in the country.

CD members might also explore and evaluate various ideas for complementary action involving political commitments or undertakings relating to space security.

A concerted and sustained effort should be made to create awareness among decision makers on the potentials of space technology so as to obtain appropriate political support for space based solutions on a sustained basis.

The Putin regime occupies a space between dictatorship and democracy for which Western political science has yet to find a proper word.

International cooperation in the peaceful uses of outer space report of the Special Political and Decolonization Committee (Fourth Committee) (A 60 475)

Globalization has been accompanied by political changes in the form of democratization and decentralization and this opens up new space for women.

He noted that the issues discussed by the Inter Agency Meeting on Outer Space Activities were expanding as space science and technology and their applications became more relevant within the changing political context of United Nations activities.

Over the past 20 years, no geo political space has undergone as dramatic a transformation as that between the Atlantic and the Urals.

Policy space is also required to ensure that important social and political ends such as food security are compatible with international trade rules.

We believe that unilateral political statements similar to the Russian one by the principal States which possess a space potential would create a sort of safety net composed of a set of intersecting voluntary guarantees of security in space.

There are also speculations that a certain quarter is trying to get rid of these political icons and use the space to clinch power.

The legislature s role and influence in these three countries also vary. In Tunisia and Egypt, authoritarian regimes allowed no political space for dissenting voices.

In addition, it was noted that electoral law changes introduced by the Central Election Commission had opened up the democratic space for political parties.

Before hyperbolic geometry, mathematicians knew about two kinds of space Euclidean space, and spherical space.

That is the key point the surge was supposed to provide space for a political settlement, which would provide the foundations of long term stability.

Unless we can establish a global socio political space, we cannot legitimately deliberate over the provision of global public goods, let alone deliver them successfully.

Starting from an initial rejection of political institutions and parliamentarism, we understood only later that the democratic challenge lies in occupying a politically normalized space.

On PAROS, the rapid technological development and the political changes of the past years have made outer space an important area of preventive arms control.

These operational measures have been complemented by carefully calibrated policies that aim to acknowledge social diversity but reduce the political space available for intolerance and bigotry.

The challenge is not how to destroy Islamic movements, but how to turn them away from revolutionary to reformist politics by granting them legitimate political space.

But how can one not interpret this as a political trick aimed at sabotaging the modernization of expression, thereby closing off any space for rational debate?

If prevention of outer space weaponization is reached on the basis of a common political will, other issues, such as verification, could be easier to approach.

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Programs US Space Shuttle Although its pace slowed, space exploration continued after the end of the Space Race.

Many questions have been raised, including a possible distinction between weaponization and militarization of outer space, and definitions of technical terms, such as  outer space , space weapon , space object and peaceful use of outer space .

One need not reiterate that, in any case, the political effect would be much worse, because there would not be increased policy or political space, and there would not be participation in the subsidiary bodies of the Security Council.

By comparison with the late 1990 s, however, the space for political discourse has undeniably narrowed, crushing expectations that the country would continue on a liberalizing course.