Michael Klare

MICHAEL KLARE is a writer, teacher, and public speaker who studies issues of war and peace, resource competition, and international affairs. As the Five College Professor of Peace and World Security Studies, based at Hampshire College, he teaches courses on resource politics, contemporary conflict, and world affairs. Klare has written fourteen books and hundreds of essays on these and related topics; a strong believer in the need for public debate and discussion, he also appears regularly in the media and in public to express his views on critical issues. His most recent book is All Hell Breaking Loose: The Pentagon's Perspective on Climate Change.

The Race for What's Left

“With an impressively global breadth of knowledge, Michael Klare shows us the various ways in which the Pentagon understands all the dimensions of climate change—and is planning to cope with it.”

  —Adam Hochschild, author of Lessons from a Dark Time and King Leopold’s Ghost

The Pentagon, unsentimental and politically conservative, might not seem likely to be worried about climate change—still linked, for many people, with polar bears and coral reefs. Yet of all the major institutions in American society, none take climate change as seriously as the U.S. military. The military now regards climate change as one of the top threats to American national security—and is busy developing strategies to cope with it. Read more…


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The Race for What's Left

The Race for What's Left

From Michael Klare, the renowned expert on natural resource issues, an invaluable account of a new and dangerous global competition. Read more...

Rising Powers, Shrinking Planet

Rising Powers, Shrinking Planet

From the author of the now-classic Resource Wars, an indispensable account of how the world's diminishing sources of energy are radically changing the international balance of power. Read more...

Resource Wars

Resource Wars

From the oilfields of Saudi Arabia to the Nile delta, from the shipping lanes of the South China Sea to the pipelines of Central Asia, Resource Wars looks at the growing impact of resource scarcity on the military policies of nations. Read more...

Blood and Oil

Blood and Oil

In Blood and Oil, Michael Klare concentrates on a single precious commodity, petroleum, while issuing a warning to the United States—its most powerful, and most dependent, global consumer. Read more...

Blood and Oil Film

Blood and Oil: the Movie

A documentary film version of Klare’s 2005 Blood and Oil, featuring archival footage of American presidents and other top leaders asserting the need to use military force to ensure access to Middle Eastern oil. Demonstrates conclusively that the Gulf War of 1990-91 and other U.S. military actions in the Persian Gulf area have been driven by the geopolitics of oil. Narrated by Klare and produced by the Media Education Foundation. Learn more & order...

About Michael Klare

Michael T. Klare

Michael Klare is the author of fourteen books, including: Resource Wars (2001); Blood and Oil (2004); Rising Powers, Shrinking Planet (2008); and The Race for What’s Left (2012). Read more...

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