Michael Klare

Michael T. Klare
Nationality	American
Alma mater	Columbia University B.A. in 1963 and M.A. in 1968, Ph.D. from the Graduate School of the Union Institute in 1976
Subjects	U.S. defense policy, the arms trade, Peak oil, and world security affairs.

Michael T. Klare is a Five Colleges professor of Peace and World Security Studies, whose department is located at Hampshire College, defense correspondent of The Nation magazine, and author of Resource Wars and Blood and Oil: The Dangers and Consequences of America's Growing Petroleum Dependency (Metropolitan). Klare also teaches at Amherst College, Smith College, Mount Holyoke College, and the University of Massachusetts, Amherst.

Klare also serves on the boards of directors of Human Rights Watch, and the Arms Control Association. He is a regular contributor to many publications including The Nation, TomDispatch, Mother Jones, and is a frequent columnist for Foreign Policy In Focus.

He lives in Northampton, Massachusetts.

Analysis of US threats against Iraq

In November 2005, Klare alleged that a major factor motivating the George W. Bush administration to attack Iraq would be its desire to distract attention from domestic political difficulties and to increase popularity for the President. US popular support for Bush increased by about 10% when the US invaded Iraq in 2003 and only dropped back to its previous level several months later.^[1]

Extreme energy

Klare originated the concept of "extreme energy", techniques for the production of energy which share characteristics of being environmentally damaging or risky. Examples include exploitation of oil sands and shale oil, deepwater drilling, Hydraulic fracturing, and Mountaintop removal mining.^[2][3][4]

Notes

1. ^ Wag the Dog: Crisis Scenarios for Deflecting Attention from the President's Woes, November 16, 2005, Michael T. Klare
2. ^ Daniel Gross (June 6, 2010). "Fracking, Oil Sands, and Deep-Water Drilling: The dangerous new era of "extreme energy."". Slate Magazine. http://www.slate.com/articles/business/moneybox/2010/06/fracking_oil_sands_and_deepwater_drilling.html. Retrieved November 11, 2011. "We've entered an age in which the production of energy, especially from fossil fuels, demands ever-more-expensive environmental trade-offs. We've entered what Michael Klare, professor at Hampshire College, calls the era of " extreme energy."" 
3. ^ John D. Sutter (April 19, 2011). "Welcome to the era of 'extreme energy'". CNN. http://articles.cnn.com/2011-04-19/tech/oil.sands.extreme.energy_1_oil-sands-suncor-energy-oil-addiction. Retrieved November 11, 2011. ""Mother Earth is going to be all torn up."" 
4. ^ "The Relentless Pursuit of Extreme Energy: A New Oil Rush Endangers the Gulf of Mexico and the Planet" by Michael T. Klare, TomDispatch.Com, May 18, 2010

Bibliography

• War Without End: American Planning for the Next Vietnams (New York: Knopf, 1972). (Translations in Italian, Norwegian, and Spanish.)
• Supplying Repression (New York: Field Foundation, 1978). (2nd ed., with Cynthia Arnson, Institute for Policy Studies, Washington, D.C., 1981.)
• Beyond the 'Vietnam Syndrome': U.S. Interventionism in the 1980s (Washington, D.C.: Institute for Policy Studies, 1981).
• American Arms Supermarket (Austin: University of Texas Press, 1984).
• Low-Intensity Warfare: Counterinsurgency, Proinsurgency and Anti-terrorism in the Eighties, co-editor and contributor (New York: Pantheon, 1988).
• Peace and World Security Studies: A Curriculum Guide, 6th ed., editor and contributor (Boulder, CO: Lynne Rienner, 1994). (5th ed., co-editor and contributor, 1991).
• Lethal Commerce: The Global Trade in Small Arms and Light Weapons, co-editor and contributor (Cambridge, MA: American Academy of Arts and Sciences, 1995).
• Rogue States and Nuclear Outlaws: America's Search for a New Foreign Policy (New York: Hill & Wang, 1995).
• A Scourge of Guns: The Diffusion of Small Arms and Light Weapons in Latin America, with David Andersen (Washington, D.C.: Federation of American Scientists, 1996).
• World Security: Challenges for a New Century, 3rd ed., co-editor and contributor (New York: St. Martin's Press, 1998). (1st ed., co-editor and contributor, 1991; 2nd ed., co-editor and contributor, 1994.)
• Light Weapons and Civil Conflict, co-editor and contributor (Lanham, MD.: Rowman and Littlefield, 1999).
• Resource Wars: The New Landscape of Global Conflict (New York: Owl Books, reprint edition 2002).
• Blood and Oil: The Dangers and Consequences of America’s Growing Dependency on Imported Petroleum (New York: Metropolitan Books, 2004; paperback, Owl Books, 2005).
• (with Peter Kornbluh) Low Intensity Warfare: How the USA Fights Wars Without Declaring Them (Methuen Publishing Ltd, 1989, ISBN 0413615901).
• Rising Powers, Shrinking Planet: The New Geopolitics of Energy (Henry Holt & Company, Incorporated, 2008, ISBN 9780805080643).
• The Race for What's Left: The Global Scramble for the World's Last Resources, Metropolitan Books; First Edition edition (March 13, 2012), hardcover, 320 pages, ISBN-10: 0805091262 ISBN-13: 978-0805091267

Published articles

• Shopaholic China: chinadialogue July 2, 2010
• Russia and Georgia: All About Oil
• Michael Klare on the Carter Doctrine
• New Geopolitics
• "Michael Klare interviewed by Creel Commission" February 21, 2006. also at Jackalope Recordings
• "A Scourge of Small Arms," from Scientific American, June 2000 (with Jeffrey Boutwell).
• "New Korean War Peace Accord Spells Disaster for Pentagon War Planners," from Pacific News Service, June 22, 2000.
• "Quest for Oil Drives Aid to Colombia," from Alternet, May 4, 2000.
• Archive of Michael Klare's articles in The Nation (1999–2006).
• "New James Bond Thriller Foreshadows Real Dangers in Caucasus," from Pacific News Service, November 24, 1999.
• Klare, Michael (January 1999). "The Kalashnikov age". "Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists" 55 (1): 18–22. doi:10.2968/055001009. http://thebulletin.metapress.com/content/v46450v181582n96/?p=893e5297038341128a2b8a6e942cb6ea&pi=8. Retrieved 2009-08-05. 
• "Small Arms and Light Weapons: Controlling the Real Instruments of War," from Arms Control Today, August/September 1998 (with Jeffrey Boutwell).
• "The Sole Superpower Syndrome," from In These Times, March 1998.
• Klare, Michael (January/February 1997). "East Asia's militaries muscle up". "Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists" (Educational Foundation for Nuclear Science, Inc.) 53 (1): 56–61. ISSN 0096-3402. http://books.google.com/?id=owwAAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA56. Retrieved 2009-08-05. 
• "Rogue States and ‘Peer Competitors' - A New Military Strategy for Washington?" from Le Monde Diplomatique, November 1997.

External links

• PAWSS biography of Michael Klare
• Conversation with Klare
• Klare's articles published in Whole Terrain
• Five Colleges Program in Peace and World Security Studies
• Pulse Berlin / Stone Gossard

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