In February 2023, US forces shot down a total of four flying objects over North America in quick succession. Since much is unclear so far, here are the known facts (as of 20 Feb 2023) first: # Altitude Date Crash site Aftermath 1 18,000m 4 Feb 2023 US territorial waters off North Carolina Debris was salvaged 2 12,000m 10 Feb 2023 US territorial waters off the North coast of Alaska Arctic conditions preclude salvage 3 12,000m 11 Feb 2023 Yukon Territory, Canada Crash site in mountainous terrain, debris not found 4 6,000m 12 Feb 2023 Lake Huron, Canada Crash site…
Schlagwort: Airspace
In 2021, Carlo Diehl and I published an article called „The Territorialization of the Global Commons“ in the Zeitschrift für Internationale Beziehungen, the journal of the IR Section of the German Association for Political Science. The official version is here and an ungated version is over at ResearchGate. We compared governing regimes for five commons: the high seas, the deep seabed, the atmosphere, outer space, and the poles. Our finding was that the two „classical“ modes of governing these spaces beyond national jurisdiction – division into sovereign territory, and internationalization – had been supplanted by what we call „functional territorialization“,…