Abstract Countries often use power to shape the agenda and rules in the governance of global commons. The allocation of geostationary orbit resources is subject to the governance of global commons. As a major country in space research, the US has taken the lead in the International Telecommunication Union’s arrangement of geostationary orbit resources by virtue of its advantages in technology, knowledge, and institution. In the 1970s, when developing countries began to actively demand “equitable access”to geostationary orbit resources, the US spared no effort to maintain its vested interests and opposed the change of the status quo. In the past decades, this kind of disputes between developing countries and developed countries such as the US have been taking place at meetings of the International Telecommunication Union repeatedly. Without a fundamental technological revolution in the future, resource politics would inevitably continue.
SHEN Peng. The Power and Rules in the Governance of Global Commons: In the Case of US's Acquisition of Geostationary Orbit Resources[J]. 太平洋学报, 2019, 27(7): 15-26.
