Michael Klare

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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). Klaire also teaches at Amherst College, Smith College, Mount Holyoke College, and the University of Massachusetts, Amherst.

Klare also resides 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, where he is defense correspondent, Tom's Dispatch, Mother Jones, and many other publications.

He lives in Northampton, Massachusetts.

Contents 1 Analysis of US threats against Iran 2 Bibliography 3 External links 4 Published Articles 5 Notes 6 External links

[edit] Analysis of US threats against Iran

In November 2005, Michael T. Klare alleged that a major factor motivating the George W. Bush administration to attack Iran 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]

[edit] Bibliography

• (with Peter Kornbluh), Low Intensity Warfare: How the USA Fights Wars Without Declaring Them (Methuen Publishing Ltd, 1989, ISBN-10: 0413615901; ISBN-13: 978-0413615909)

[edit] External links

• Five Colleges Program in Peace and World Security Studies
• PAWSS biography of Michael Klare
• Hampshire College

Pulse Berlin/ Stone Gossard *[1]

• Talk on "Oil, War and Geopolitics", Feb 22, 2007 at Dickinson College

[edit] Published Articles

• Michael Klare on the Carter Doctrine
• New Geopolitics
• "Michael Klare interviewed by Creel Commission " February 21, 2006.

Some of his writings can be found online:

• "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.

• "The Kalashnikov Age," from the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, January/February 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.

• "East Asia's Militaries Muscle Up," from the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, January/February 1997.

• "Rogue States and ‘Peer Competitors' - A New Military Strategy for Washington?" from Le Monde Diplomatique, November 1997.

[edit] Notes

1. ^a  Wag the Dog: Crisis Scenarios for Deflecting Attention from the President's Woes, November 16, 2005, Michael T. Klare

[edit] External links

• Carnegie Council's resources by Michael Klare
• Whole Terrain link to Klare's articles published in Whole Terrain