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Prof. Saadia Pekkanen on the potential of small satellites to monitor South China Sea activity | Forbes Magazine

Cooperation Afloat Readiness and Training (CARAT) in South China Sea

May 31, 2016

Jackson School Professor Saadia Pekkanen gives an insider’s look into how the rise of commercial space players developing smallsats (a.k.a. small satellites) are playing a big role in monitoring activity in the disputed South China Sea in her latest Forbes article “South China Sea Tensions: How Do We Know What’s Really Happening?“

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About the Authors

Saadia Pekkanen

Saadia M. Pekkanen

Saadia Pekkanen is the founding Director of the Jackson School Ph.D. Program and the Job and Gertrud Tamaki Professor at the Jackson School of International Studies. Her areas of research interest include international political economy, international law, space security and policy, and the international relations of Japan/Asia.