MICHAEL T. KLARE

Michael Klare served from 1985 to 2018 as 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, Amherst, and is now the Emeritus Professor of Peace and World Security Studies at Hampshire College. He has written widely on U.S. foreign policy, international security affairs, and global resource politics. Klare is currently serving as a Senior Visiting Fellow at the Arms Control Association in Washington, D.C., where he is studying the impact of emerging technologies on the future of war and arms control.

Klare is the author or editor of fifteen books, including, most recently, Resource Wars (2001), Blood and Oil (2005), and The Race for What’s Left (2012). His newest book, All Hell Breaking Loose: Climate Change, Global Chaos, and American National Security, will be published in fall 2019. Klare is also a regular contributor to The Nation, where he serves as Defense Correspondent, and has written for many other journals, including Arms Control Today, Current History, Foreign Affairs, Harper’s, Le Monde Diplomatique, Newsweek, Scientific American, and Technology Review. In addition, Klare has served on the boards of directors or advisory committees of numerous organizations in the peace and security field, including the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, Arms Control Association, Federation of American Scientists, Human Rights Watch, and the National Priorities Project. He received his B.A. and M.A. from Columbia University and his Ph.D. from the Graduate School of the Union Institute