Namrata Goswami (Ph.D.)

Michael Laine interviews Namrata Goswami (Ph.D.), Senior Space Analyst & Author. In this episode they discuss Namrata's background, including growing up in Northeast India and enjoying the night skies as a child during monsoon season. She studied political science and international relations, which gives her incredible insight into the Space domain and international Space powers. They discuss her book, Scramble for the Skies, a comparative assessment of great powers using and defending space resources. Also, they discuss Russia and China as a space race to the United States and world space strategic partnerships affecting lunar development and mineral extraction.

Namrata Goswami is an independent scholar on space policy, great power politics, and ethnic conflicts. She was subject matter expert in international affairs with the Futures Laboratory, Alabama, U.S., and guest lecturer, India Today Class, Emory University. After earning her Ph. D.

Latest Books

Scramble for the Skies: The Great Power Competition to Control the Resources of Outer Space (Lexington Press, Rowman and Littlefield, October 2020)

The Naga Ethnic Movement for a Separate Homeland: Stories from the Field (Oxford University Press, March 2020)