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The “Space Age”, which started in 1957 after successfully sending Soviet satellite of Sputnik I to space, has been conduced to the beginning of a new era in international relations. The concept of soft power was at the forefront of this period and the importance of technology was better understood, and then various inventions followed each other, such as; electronic computer systems, radar, satellite, ballistic missile, rocket, atomic bomb etc. Space technology has begun to be seen as both prestige and source of information in terms of states. Geopolitical theories were observed to be inadequate in explaining this new era which has taken place in international relations. In this context, astropolitics developed as the geopolitics of outer space that seeks to address the strategic transfer of evolving and changing technologies continuously to space in a global perspective. This study aims to analyze the developments of space studies in international relations from the astropolitical perspective.

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