The New Geopolitics of Energy -- with Michael Klare

Michael T. Klare is the Five College Professor of Peace and World Security Studies (a joint appointment at Amherst, Hampshire, Mount Holyoke, and Smith Colleges and the University of Massachusetts at Amherst) and Director of the Five College Program in Peace and World Security Studies (PAWSS), positions he has held since 1985.

Professor Klare has written widely on U.S. defense policy, the arms trade, global resource politics, and world security affairs. He is the author of several books, including, most recently Blood and Oil: The Dangers and Consequences of America’s Growing Dependency on Imported Petroleum (Metropolitan Books, 2004), Resource Wars (Metropolitan Books, 2001); and Rogue States and Nuclear Outlaws (Hill and Wang, 1995). In addition, he is the co-editor of Light Weapons and Civil Conflict: Controlling the Tools of Violence (Rowman and Littlefield, 1999); Lethal Commerce: The Global Trade in Small Arms and Light Weapons (American Academy of Arts and Sciences, 1995); and World Security: Challenges for a New Century (three editions).

Professor Klare is also the defense correspondent of The Nation magazine and a Contributing Editor of Current History. He has contributed articles to the these journals and to Foreign Affairs, ForeignPolicy, Harper's, International Security, Le Monde Diplomatique, Newsweek, Scientific American, Technology Review, Third World Quarterly, and World Policy Journal. 

Klare has also worked with many non-governmental organizations in the peace, disarmament, and human rights fields and currently serves on the board of directors of the Arms Control Association and the National Priorities Project.

Professor Klare received his B.A. and M.A. from Columbia University in 1963 and 1968, respectively, and his Ph.D. from the Graduate School of the Union Institute in 1976.