Michael T. Klare is a Five Collegesprofessor of Peace and World Security Studies, whose department is located at Hampshire College (Amherst, Massachusetts, USA), 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). His 2019 book is, All Hell Breaking Loose: the Pentagon's Perspective on Climate Change (Metropolitan). Klare also teaches at Amherst College, Smith College, Mount Holyoke College and the University of Massachusetts Amherst.
U.S. defense policy, the arms trade, Peak oil, and world security affairs.
Klare serves on the board of directors of the Arms Control Association. He is a regular contributor to many publications including The Nation, TomDispatch and Mother Jones, and is a frequent columnist for Foreign Policy In Focus. He also was the narrator of the movie Blood and Oil, which was produced by the Media Education Foundation.
In November 2005, Klare alleged that a major factor motivating the George W. Bush administration to attack Iraq was 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% during the 2003 invasion of Iraq and only dropped back to its previous level several months later.[2]
The movie Blood and Oil, which came out before the end of the Bush administration, explains Klare's view on oil as an instrument of national policy. Using sources including statements from official government sources and statements by media commentators, Klare pushes for alternative energy and warns that energy will be hard to get in the next century. The website for the movie describes the movie as follows:
The notion that oil motivates America's military engagements in the Middle East has long been dismissed as nonsense or mere conspiracy theory. Blood and Oil, a new documentary based on the critically-acclaimed work of Nation magazine defense correspondent Michael T. Klare, challenges this conventional wisdom to correct the historical record. The film unearths declassified documents and highlights forgotten passages in prominent presidential doctrines to show how concerns about oil have been at the core of American foreign policy for more than 60 years – rendering our contemporary energy and military policies virtually indistinguishable. In the end, Blood and Oil calls for a radical re-thinking of US energy policy, warning that unless we change direction, we stand to be drawn into one oil war after another as the global hunt for diminishing world petroleum supplies accelerates.[5]
The future of oiledit
In a number of articles, Klare has commented on the future of oil. In an article published on March 13, 2012, he discussed "the principal cause of higher oil prices",[6] concluding that "a fundamental shift in the structure of the oil industry" has occurred because of "the disappearance of relatively accessible and inexpensive petroleum", and that countries will have to grasp for the harder oil in the future. In another article, he continues this thesis and suggests that sanctions on Iran make not only Iranians suffer, but also those that buy oil from Iran.[7] That same month, Klare noted the sensitive spots of conflict in the "Geo-energy era". They include the Strait of Hormuz, the East and South China Seas, the Caspian Sea basin, and the Arctic polar region.[8] In another article in 2011, Klare expanded his thesis to something more radical. He noted that America and oil were falling together.[9]
Bibliographyedit
External videos
Booknotes interview with Klare on Rogue States and Nuclear Outlaws, April 30, 1995, C-SPAN
Presentation by Klare on Resource Wars, May 17, 2001, C-SPAN
Presentation by Klare on Rising Powers, Shrinking Planet, April 17, 2008, C-SPAN
Presentation by Klare on The Race for What's Left, March 20, 2012, C-SPAN
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).
Rising Powers, Shrinking Planet: The New Geopolitics of Energy (Henry Holt & Company, Incorporated, 2008, ISBN978-0-8050-8064-3).
The Race for What's Left: The Global Scramble for the World's Last Resources, Metropolitan Books; First Edition (March 13, 2012), hardcover, 320 pages, ISBN0805091262ISBN978-0805091267[10]
All Hell Breaking Loose: The Pentagon's Perspective on Climate Change, New York: Henry Holt and Co., 2019, ISBN978-1-62779-248-6).
"Michael Klare interviewed by Creel Commission" February 21, 2006. also at
"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. at the Library of Congress Web Archives (archived 2001-11-16)
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. at the Library of Congress Web Archives (archived 2001-11-16)
Klare, Michael (January 1999). "The Kalashnikov age". "Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists". 55 (1): 18–22. Bibcode:1999BuAtS..55a..18K. doi:10.2968/055001009. {{cite journal}}: External link in |journal= (help)
Klare, Michael (January–February 1997). "East Asia's militaries muscle up". "Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists". 53 (1). Educational Foundation for Nuclear Science, Inc.: 56–61. Bibcode:1997BuAtS..53a..56K. doi:10.1080/00963402.1997.11456701. ISSN 0096-3402. Retrieved 2009-08-05. {{cite journal}}: External link in |journal= (help)
"Rogue States and ‘Peer Competitors' - A New Military Strategy for Washington?" from Le Monde Diplomatique, November 1997.
Notesedit
^"Bookshelf | Columbia College Today". www.college.columbia.edu. Retrieved 2022-06-15.
^Wag the Dog: Crisis Scenarios for Deflecting Attention from the President's Woes, November 16, 2005, Michael T. Klare
^Daniel Gross (June 6, 2010). "Fracking, Oil Sands, and Deep-Water Drilling: The dangerous new era of "extreme energy."". Slate Magazine. 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."
^John D. Sutter (April 19, 2011). "Welcome to the era of 'extreme energy'". CNN. Archived from the original on January 2, 2013. Retrieved November 11, 2011. Mother Earth is going to be all torn up.
^. Archived from the original on 2011-08-20. Retrieved 2012-03-26.
^"Tomgram: Michael Klare, Why High Gas Prices Are Here to Stay | TomDispatch". tomdispatch.com. 13 March 2012. Retrieved 2018-03-14.
^"Tomgram: Michael Klare, No Exit in the Persian Gulf? | TomDispatch". tomdispatch.com. 31 January 2012. Retrieved 2018-03-14.
^"Tomgram: Michael Klare, Energy Wars 2012 | TomDispatch". tomdispatch.com. 10 January 2012. Retrieved 2018-03-14.
^"Tomgram: Michael Klare, Is Washington Out of Gas? | TomDispatch". tomdispatch.com. 15 September 2011. Retrieved 2018-03-14.
^"BOOK REVIEW: The Race for What's Left: The Global Scramble for the World's Last Resources by Michael T. Klare". Science News. 2014-04-16. Retrieved 2018-03-14.
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message Michael T Klare is a Five Colleges professor of Peace and World Security Studies whose department is located at Hampshire College Amherst Massachusetts USA 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 His 2019 book is All Hell Breaking Loose the Pentagon s Perspective on Climate Change Metropolitan Klare also teaches at Amherst College Smith College Mount Holyoke College and the University of Massachusetts Amherst Michael T KlareMichael Klare in 2013NationalityAmericanAlma materColumbia University BA MA Union Institute amp University PhD SubjectU S defense policy the arms trade Peak oil and world security affairs Klare serves on the board of directors of the Arms Control Association He is a regular contributor to many publications including The Nation TomDispatch and Mother Jones and is a frequent columnist for Foreign Policy In Focus He also was the narrator of the movie Blood and Oil which was produced by the Media Education Foundation He lives in Northampton Massachusetts Klare is a graduate of Columbia University and the Union Institute amp University 1 Contents 1 Analysis of US threats against Iraq 2 Extreme energy 3 Oil as an instrument of national policy 4 The future of oil 5 Bibliography 6 Published articles 7 Notes 8 External linksAnalysis of US threats against Iraq editIn November 2005 Klare alleged that a major factor motivating the George W Bush administration to attack Iraq was 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 during the 2003 invasion of Iraq and only dropped back to its previous level several months later 2 Extreme energy editKlare originated the concept of extreme energy Extreme energy is a range of techniques for the production of energy from unconventional resources which share characteristics of being environmentally damaging or risky Examples include exploitation of oil sands tight oil shale oil and shale oil oil from oil shale deepwater drilling hydraulic fracturing mountaintop removal mining petroleum exploration in the Arctic and natural gas hydrates 3 4 Oil as an instrument of national policy editThe movie Blood and Oil which came out before the end of the Bush administration explains Klare s view on oil as an instrument of national policy Using sources including statements from official government sources and statements by media commentators Klare pushes for alternative energy and warns that energy will be hard to get in the next century The website for the movie describes the movie as follows The notion that oil motivates America s military engagements in the Middle East has long been dismissed as nonsense or mere conspiracy theory Blood and Oil a new documentary based on the critically acclaimed work of Nation magazine defense correspondent Michael T Klare challenges this conventional wisdom to correct the historical record The film unearths declassified documents and highlights forgotten passages in prominent presidential doctrines to show how concerns about oil have been at the core of American foreign policy for more than 60 years rendering our contemporary energy and military policies virtually indistinguishable In the end Blood and Oil calls for a radical re thinking of US energy policy warning that unless we change direction we stand to be drawn into one oil war after another as the global hunt for diminishing world petroleum supplies accelerates 5 The future of oil editIn a number of articles Klare has commented on the future of oil In an article published on March 13 2012 he discussed the principal cause of higher oil prices 6 concluding that a fundamental shift in the structure of the oil industry has occurred because of the disappearance of relatively accessible and inexpensive petroleum and that countries will have to grasp for the harder oil in the future In another article he continues this thesis and suggests that sanctions on Iran make not only Iranians suffer but also those that buy oil from Iran 7 That same month Klare noted the sensitive spots of conflict in the Geo energy era They include the Strait of Hormuz the East and South China Seas the Caspian Sea basin and the Arctic polar region 8 In another article in 2011 Klare expanded his thesis to something more radical He noted that America and oil were falling together 9 Bibliography editExternal videos nbsp Booknotes interview with Klare on Rogue States and Nuclear Outlaws April 30 1995 C SPAN nbsp Presentation by Klare on Resource Wars May 17 2001 C SPAN nbsp Presentation by Klare on Rising Powers Shrinking Planet April 17 2008 C SPAN nbsp Presentation by Klare on The Race for What s Left March 20 2012 C SPAN 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 amp 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 0 413 61590 1 Rising Powers Shrinking Planet The New Geopolitics of Energy Henry Holt amp Company Incorporated 2008 ISBN 978 0 8050 8064 3 The Race for What s Left The Global Scramble for the World s Last Resources Metropolitan Books First Edition March 13 2012 hardcover 320 pages ISBN 0805091262 ISBN 978 0805091267 10 All Hell Breaking Loose The Pentagon s Perspective on Climate Change New York Henry Holt and Co 2019 ISBN 978 1 62779 248 6 Published articles editShopaholic China chinadialogue July 2 2010 Russia and Georgia All About Oil at the Wayback Machine archived 2008 08 19 Michael Klare on the Carter Doctrine at the Wayback Machine archived 2004 12 21 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 at the Library of Congress Web Archives archived 2001 11 16 Quest for Oil Drives Aid to Colombia from Alternet May 4 2000 at the Wayback Machine archived 2004 04 12 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 at the Library of Congress Web Archives archived 2001 11 16 Klare Michael January 1999 The Kalashnikov age Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists 55 1 18 22 Bibcode 1999BuAtS 55a 18K doi 10 2968 055001009 a href Template Cite journal html title Template Cite journal cite journal a External link in code class cs1 code journal code help Small Arms and Light Weapons Controlling the Real Instruments of War from Arms Control Today August September 1998 with Jeffrey Boutwell at the Wayback Machine archived 2001 07 08 Klare Michael January February 1997 East Asia s militaries muscle up Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists 53 1 Educational Foundation for Nuclear Science Inc 56 61 Bibcode 1997BuAtS 53a 56K doi 10 1080 00963402 1997 11456701 ISSN 0096 3402 Retrieved 2009 08 05 a href Template Cite journal html title Template Cite journal cite journal a External link in code class cs1 code journal code help Rogue States and Peer Competitors A New Military Strategy for Washington from Le Monde Diplomatique November 1997 Notes edit Bookshelf Columbia College Today www college columbia edu Retrieved 2022 06 15 Wag the Dog Crisis Scenarios for Deflecting Attention from the President s Woes November 16 2005 Michael T Klare Daniel Gross June 6 2010 Fracking Oil Sands and Deep Water Drilling The dangerous new era of extreme energy Slate Magazine 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 John D Sutter April 19 2011 Welcome to the era of extreme energy CNN Archived from the original on January 2 2013 Retrieved November 11 2011 Mother Earth is going to be all torn up BO Website pg 3 Archived from the original on 2011 08 20 Retrieved 2012 03 26 Tomgram Michael Klare Why High Gas Prices Are Here to Stay TomDispatch tomdispatch com 13 March 2012 Retrieved 2018 03 14 Tomgram Michael Klare No Exit in the Persian Gulf TomDispatch tomdispatch com 31 January 2012 Retrieved 2018 03 14 Tomgram Michael Klare Energy Wars 2012 TomDispatch tomdispatch com 10 January 2012 Retrieved 2018 03 14 Tomgram Michael Klare Is Washington Out of Gas TomDispatch tomdispatch com 15 September 2011 Retrieved 2018 03 14 BOOK REVIEW The Race for What s Left The Global Scramble for the World s Last Resources by Michael T Klare Science News 2014 04 16 Retrieved 2018 03 14 External links edit nbsp Wikiquote has quotations related to Michael Klare Library resources about Michael Klare Resources in your library Resources in other libraries nbsp Biography portal PAWSS biography of Michael Klare Conversation with Klare at the Wayback Machine archived 2007 09 28 Klare s articles published in Whole Terrain Five Colleges Program in Peace and World Security Studies Pulse Berlin Stone Gossard Appearances on C SPAN Booknotes interview with Klare on Rogue States and Nuclear Outlaws April 30 1995 Retrieved from https en wikipedia org w index php title Michael Klare amp 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