Dr Bleddyn Bowen
RUSI Associate Fellow
Biography
Dr Bleddyn Bowen is Associate Professor in Astropolitics at Durham University. He is an expert on space warfare, space policy and security, international relations in outer space, and strategic theory. He is a Co-Director at Durham University's Space Research Centre (SPARC), and the Founder and Co-Convenor of the Astropolitics Working Group at the British International Studies Association (BISA).
Dr Bowen is the author of two monographs: Original Sin: Power, Technology and War in Outer Space (Hurst, 2022) and War in Space: Strategy, Spacepower, Geopolitics (Edinburgh University Press, 2020). He has also published several peer-reviewed academic articles and book chapters, not only on space security but also on military theory and artificial intelligence. He has briefed UK and international audiences on matters of space policy and security, including the No. 10 Downing Street Policy Unit, NATO, the European Space Agency, the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, the Royal College of Defence Studies, the Royal United Services Institute, the Pentagon, the UK Ministry of Defence, The FCDO, the Japanese Cabinet Office, and the UK Parliament, to name a few. He is also a frequent expert specialist contributor for news media, having appeared in many outlets such as The Financial Times, Le Monde, The Times, The Economist, The Guardian, The Washington Post, BBC Radio Cymru, Sky News, BBC News, and Newyddion S4C, among others.
Before joining Durham University in 2024, Dr Bowen was previously: Associate Professor of International Relations at the University of Leicester; Lecturer in Defence Studies at King’s College London; Teaching Fellow at the Department of International Politics, Aberystwyth University, where he also studied for his PhD on spacepower theory.