Michael T. Klare is a Five Colleges

Five Colleges (Massachusetts)

The Five Colleges comprises four liberal arts colleges and one university in the Connecticut River Pioneer Valley of Western Massachusetts, totaling approximately 28,000 students. The schools belong to a consortium called Five Colleges, Incorporated, established in 1965...

 professor

Professor

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 of Peace and World Security Studies, whose department is located at Hampshire College

Hampshire College

Hampshire College is a private liberal arts college in Amherst, Massachusetts. It was founded in 1965 as an experiment in alternative education, in association with four other colleges in the Pioneer Valley: Amherst College, Smith College, Mount Holyoke College, and the University of Massachusetts...

, defense correspondent of The Nation

The Nation

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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

Amherst College

Amherst College is a private liberal arts college located in Amherst, Massachusetts, United States. Amherst is an exclusively undergraduate four-year institution and enrolled 1,744 students in the fall of 2009...

, Smith College

Smith College

Smith College is a private, independent women's liberal arts college located in Northampton, Massachusetts. It is the largest member of the Seven Sisters...

, Mount Holyoke College

Mount Holyoke College

Mount Holyoke College is a liberal arts college for women in South Hadley, Massachusetts. It was the first member of the Seven Sisters colleges, and served as a model for some of the others...

, and the University of Massachusetts, Amherst.

Klare also serves on the boards of directors of Human Rights Watch

Human Rights Watch

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, and the Arms Control Association

Arms Control Association

The Arms Control Association is a US-based national nonpartisan membership organization founded in 1971 with the self-stated mission of promoting public understanding of and support for effective arms control policies...

. He is a regular contributor to many publications including The Nation, TomDispatch, Mother Jones

Mother Jones (magazine)

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, and is a frequent columnist for Foreign Policy In Focus

Foreign Policy In Focus

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.

He lives in Northampton, Massachusetts

Northampton, Massachusetts

The city of Northampton is the county seat of Hampshire County, Massachusetts, United States. As of the 2010 census, the population of Northampton's central neighborhoods, was 28,549...

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Analysis of US threats against Iraq

In November 2005, Klare alleged that a major factor motivating the George W. Bush

George W. Bush

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 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.

Extreme energy

Klare originated the concept of "extreme energy

Extreme energy

Extreme energy is change to use 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 and shale oil, deepwater drilling, hydraulic fracturing, mountaintop removal...

", techniques for the production of energy which share characteristics of being environmentally damaging or risky. Examples include exploitation of oil sands and shale oil

Shale oil

Shale oil, known also as kerogen oil or oil-shale oil, is an unconventional oil produced from oil shale by pyrolysis, hydrogenation, or thermal dissolution. These processes convert the organic matter within the rock into synthetic oil and gas...

, deepwater drilling

Deepwater drilling

Deepwater drilling is the process of oil and gas exploration and production in depths of more than 500 feet. By this definition, there are approximately 600 deepwater wells in the Gulf of Mexico....

, Hydraulic fracturing

Hydraulic fracturing

Considerable controversy surrounds the current implementation of hydraulic fracturing technology in the United States. Hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, is the process of utilizing pressurized water, or some other liquid, to fracture rock layers and release petroleum, natural gas, or other...

, and Mountaintop removal mining.

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.
• "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.
• "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
  Whole Terrain
  Whole Terrain: Journal of Reflective Environmental Practice is an environmentally-themed literary journal that's published approximately once a year by Antioch University New England . Each volume explores emerging ecological and social issues from the perspectives of practitioners working in the...
  
  
• Five Colleges Program in Peace and World Security Studies
• Pulse Berlin / Stone Gossard