It’s OK to let utopian visions of science diplomacy die.
. This makes sense. Believing that your space station is safe from today’s politics requires drinking some sort of Kool-Aid.
What does this mean? Well, if ISS was ever a symbol of science diplomacy, it was never a particularly useful one. No place reachable by humans is unreachable by human politics, even when hermetically sealed. The world-shattering science-relevant problems on Earth today are inherently political and deserve a pragmatism that the ISS’s hand-holding ideals didn’t always allow for—or at least haven’t for a long time.
The future is big enough for different kinds of international cooperation, adapted for different cultures and political landscapes, so humans can understand and steward nature for the common good. That is what my colleagues from six Persian Gulf countries and I recently argued in: We need pragmatic science diplomacy that doesn’t whitewash the politics of today—or how they might change, for better or worse, tomorrow.
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