Klinger in Geographical on Mining the Moon
Julie Klinger, Assistant Professor of International Relations at the Frederick S. Pardee School of Global Studies at Boston University, was recently interviewed on the intricacies of the policy and politics of outer space mining.
Klinger was interviewed for an article in the August 2017 edition of Geographical, the magazine of the Royal Geographical Society, entitled “Moon Shot.”
From the text of the article:
“There are at least 50 private firms intent on figuring out how to extract resources from the Moon,” says Julie Klinger, Assistant Professor of International Relations at Boston University. “Despite the fact that such activity would fly in the face of the UN Outer Space Treaty (OST) of 1967, which is signed by 130 countries and declares the Moon as ‘province of all mankind.’” Moon mining for private gains, she explains, is potentially illegal.
Julie Klinger specializes in development, environment, and security politics in Latin America and China in comparative and global perspective. She is currently completing a book project on the global geography of rare earth prospecting and mining, with a special emphasis on the development and geopolitics of resource frontiers in Brazil, China, and Outer Space.