Klinger Edits Special Issue of The Extractive Industries and Society

Julie Michelle Klinger, PhD, Assistant Professor of International Relations, Frederick S. Pardee School of Global Studies, Boston University. Photograph by Jonathan Kannair for Boston University.

Julie Klinger, Assistant Professor of International Relations at the Frederick S. Pardee School of Global Studies at Boston University, edited a recently published special issue of The Extractive Industries and Society.

The collection is called “Rare Earth Elements: Development, Policy, and Sustainability Issues” and it brings together case studies from the US, Sierra Leone, North Korea, Greenland, and the international financial and magnet sectors.

You can read the introduction Klinger wrote for the special issue here.

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.