The University of Washington’s Henry M. Jackson School of International Studies has been awarded a $200,000 grant from Carnegie Corporation of New York. This grant will support bridging the gap

Outer space expert and Japan specialist Prof. Saadia Pekkanen was mentioned in “Giving A Boost To Washington’s Hi-Tech Research, Space Industry.” According to the article, Washington state currently ranks fifth in the nation

Professor Saadia Pekkanen, an expert in outer space governance, security and policy, was featured in an article published by GeekWire to mark the 50th anniversary of the show “Star Trek.” Professor Pekkanen told the

UW Today reports on the recent gathering of over 20 Pacific Northwest aerospace media, academics, business, government and industry leaders at UW Club to hear latest research findings undertaken by

In October 2015, Jackson School Space Security Initiative Director Saadia Pekkanen recruited seven area specialists from the School’s Ph.D. Program as Junior Fellows. SSI Junior Fellows use their regional expertise to gauge space

Crisis and Challenges In the turmoil of political and economic transition in the early 1990s, Russia’s space program experienced a power vacuum. As a result, regrouping of the sprawling state

The European Union is broadly considered to act as a normative power, seeking to promote its values, both within its member states and beyond its geographical borders. This emphasis on

Ph.D. Candidates Clint Work and Seonhee Kim have co-authored a piece about the latest developments in South Korea’s space program, highlighting the military and economic logic behind South Korea’s desire to take

SSI Junior Fellow Clint Work and Seonhee Kim publish a critical review on South Korea’s space program on Sino-NK, a scholarly collective of Sinologists and Koreanists.

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