Gajjout, Reda (A.A. 2024/2025) Space race 2.0: Africa’s emerging satellites and Europe’s neo-colonial fears. Tesi di Laurea in Organizing for societal impact, Luiss Guido Carli, relatore Antonio Daood, pp. 101. [Master's Degree Thesis]

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Abstract/Index

The puzzle: cooperation or dependency? Literature review. Scope and purpose of the review. African space programmes and earth observation. EU–Africa space cooperation and GMES & Africa. Governance and institutional design in space policy. Dependency, digital colonialism and data sovereignty. Societal diffusion and uptake. Identified gaps and positioning of this thesis. Theoretical framework. Postcolonial political economy and technological dependency. Complex interdependence and asymmetrical cooperation. Institutional design and governance mediation. Multi-level coordination in EU–Africa space cooperation. Methodology. Qualitative documentary design: justification. Case selection: structured variation. Document inclusion and exclusion criteria. Documentary analysis protocol. Within-case process tracing. Structured cross-case comparison. Validity, bias and limitations. Case studies. Nigeria. Egypt. South Africa. Policy and theoretical implications. Governance as mediator in asymmetric interdependence. Implications for African institutional design. Implications for EU programme structure. Design principles for non-extractive cooperation.

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Bibliografia: pp. 94-97.

Thesis Type:	Master's Degree Thesis
Institution:	Luiss Guido Carli
Degree Program:	Master's Degree Programs > Master's Degree program in Global Management and Politics, English language (LM-77)
Chair:	Organizing for societal impact
Thesis Supervisor:	Daood, Antonio
Thesis Co-Supervisor:	Valeriani, Manfredi
Academic Year:	2024/2025
Session:	Extraordinary
Deposited by:	Alessandro Perfetti
Date Deposited:	13 Jul 2026 16:13
Last Modified:	13 Jul 2026 16:13
URI:	https://tesi.luiss.it/id/eprint/46352

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