Michael T Klare
Biographic Data
| ID | 279148 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Michael T Klare |
| GIVEN NAMES | Michael T |
| FAMILY NAME | Klare |
| SIGNATURE | KLARE M T |
| AFFILIATIONS | Hampshire College |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 69 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 187 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 68 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1969 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
« Alexa, lance nos bombes atomiques ! »: L’IA et la perspective de l’hyperguerre
The Coming of Automated Warfare
The progression from semiautonomous, unarmed supply robots to fully autonomous weapons systems is likely to occur rapidly and with limited public scrutiny
Energy After Covid
By transforming patterns of travel and work around the world, the COVID-19 pandemic is accelerating the transition to renewable energy and the decline of fossil fuels. Lockdowns brought car commuting and plane travel to a near halt, and the mass experiment in which white-collar employees have been working from home may permanently reduce energy consumption for business travel. Renewable energy and electric vehicles were already gaining market sha…
Climate Change, Water Scarcity, and the Potential for Interstate Conflict in South Asia
Ever since American security analysts began to consider the impact of global warming on international security, water has been viewed as an especially critical factor. In many parts of the developing world, water supplies are already insufficient to meet societal requirements, and, by shrinking these supplies further, climate change will cause widespread hardship, unrest, and conflict. But exactly what role water plays in this equation has been t…
The Missing Three-Letter Word in the Iran Crisis Oil's Enduring Sway in U.S. Policy in the Middle East
It's always oil. While President Trump was hobnobbing with Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman at the G-20 summit in Japan, brushing off a recent U.N. report about the prince's role in the murder of Washington Post columnist Jamal Khashoggi, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo was in Asia and the Middle East, pleading with foreign leaders to support “Sentinel
From Scarcity to Abundance: The New Geopolitics of Energy
The world is beginning to move away from reliance on fossil fuels altogether, rendering obsolete many of the strategic plans intended to ensure the safe flow of oil
The Palgrave Handbook of the International Political Economy of Energy
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The Palgrave Handbook of the International Political Economy of Energy
Palgrave Handbook of the International Political Economy of Energy
The Growing Threat of Maritime Conflict
What makes these disputes so dangerous ... is the apparent willingness of many claimants to employ military means in demarking their offshore territories and demonstrating their resolve to keep them
The End of Easy Everything
The transition from an easy to a tough resource era will come at a high price
The Public Health Implications of Resource Wars
Competition for resources between or within nations is likely to become an increasingly common cause of armed conflict. Competition for petroleum is especially likely to trigger armed conflict because petroleum is a highly valuable resource whose supply is destined to contract. Wars fought over petroleum and other resources can create public health concerns by causing morbidity and mortality, damaging societal infrastructure, diverting resources,…
The Public Health Implications of Resource Wars
Competition for resources between or within nations is likely to become an increasingly common cause of armed conflict. Competition for petroleum is especially likely to trigger armed conflict because petroleum is a highly valuable resource whose supply is destined to contract. Wars fought over petroleum and other resources can create public health concerns by causing morbidity and mortality, damaging societal infrastructure, diverting resources,…
Imbalance of Power: US Hegemony and Intelligence Order
A stellar group of authors provocatively debate the nature of the current international order and the role of the US within it
Navigating the Energy Transition
The transition from our current energy system to one based largely on renewables will be fraught with danger and crisis
The Impending Oil Shock: An Exchange
In the April–May 2008 issue of Survival (vol. 50, no. 2, pp. 37–66), Nader Elhefnawy argued that oil production is approaching its peak, with consequences that are likely to be dramatic. There will be increased risk of state failure and resource conflict; the economic balance of power among major industrial states will shift according to their relative abilities to adapt to a scarcity of fossil fuels; and oil producers will enjoy greater politica…
Global Warming Battlefields: How Climate Change Threatens Security
It may well be that the most costly and challenging consequence of climate change will be an increase in violent conflict and all the humanitarian trauma this brings with it
Fueling the Dragon: China's Strategic Energy Dilemma
Unless the world's existing powers are prepared to descend into the sort of resource-driven geopolitical competition that resulted in World War I ... they must make room at the table for an energy-hungry China
America, China & the Scramble for Africa's Oil
After decades of Cold War, when Africa was simply viewed as a convenient pawn on the global chessboard, and a further decade of benign neglect in the 1990s, the African continent has now become a vital arena of strategic and geopolitical competition for not only the United States, but also for China, India, and other new emerging powers. The main reason for this is quite simple: Africa is the final frontier as far as the world's supplies of energ…
The African ‘oil rush’ and US national security
The world's major oil-consuming nations, led by the USA, China and the Western European countries, are keenly interested in the development of African oil reserves, making huge bids for whatever exploration blocks become available and investing large sums in drilling platforms, pipelines, loading facilities and other production infrastructure. Indeed, the pursuit of African oil has taken on the character of a gold rush, with major companies from …
Oil, Iraq, and American Foreign Policy: The Continuing Salience of the Carter Doctrine
For years to come, historians are likely to ponder the reasons that led the United States to invade Iraq in March 2003-an invasion that has cost many lives and vast treasure but has yet to result in the establishment of a stable, legitimate regime. Many reasons, official and unofficial, have been advanced to explain the 2003 invasion, but none have proved entirely persuasive. The original explanation given for US military action-to eliminate the …
Target China: The Emerging US-China Conflict
Michael Klare, who has written compellingly on oil as a driving factor in US policy in the Middle East and globally, here turns his gaze toward yet larger dynamics driving US military strategy. He concludes that in a world in which there is only one potential military threat to US primacy, the single logical explanation for the continued growth of the US military budget, its drive to expand its nuclear arsenal and to extend its nuclear hegemony t…
Iran, War and World Energy
As the United States gears up for an attack on Iran, one thing is certain: the Bush administration will never mention oil as a reason for going to war. As in the case of Iraq, weapons of mass destruction (WMD) will be cited as the principal justification for an American assault. “We will not tolerate the construction of a nuclear weapon [by Iran],” is the way President Bush put it in a much-quoted 2003 statement. But just as the failure to discov…
The Intensifying Global Struggle for Energy
From Washington to New Delhi, Caracas to Moscow and Beijing, national leaders and corporate executives are stepping up their efforts to gain control over major sources of oil and natural gas as the global struggle for energy intensifies. Never has the competitive pursuit of untapped oil and gas reserves been so acute, and never has so much money as well as diplomatic and military muscle been deployed in the contest to win control over major forei…
Blood and oil: The dangers and consequences of America's growing dependency on imported petroleum
Resource Wars: The New Landscape of Global Conflict
"From the barren oil fields of Central Asia to the lush Nile Delta, from the busy shipping lanes of the South China Sea to the uraniam mines and diamond fields of sub-Saharan Africa, Resource Wars looks at the impact of intensified resource competition on the military policies of nations. Michael T. Klare argues that in the early decades of the new millenium, wars will be fought not over ideology but over natural commodities, as states battle to …
The Palgrave Handbook of the International Political Economy of Energy
America, China & the Scramble for Africa's Oil
After decades of Cold War, when Africa was simply viewed as a convenient pawn on the global chessboard, and a further decade of benign neglect in the 1990s, the African continent has now become a vital arena of strategic and geopolitical competition for not only the United States, but also for China, India, and other new emerging powers. The main reason for this is quite simple: Africa is the final frontier as far as the world's supplies of energ…
The African ‘oil rush’ and US national security
The world's major oil-consuming nations, led by the USA, China and the Western European countries, are keenly interested in the development of African oil reserves, making huge bids for whatever exploration blocks become available and investing large sums in drilling platforms, pipelines, loading facilities and other production infrastructure. Indeed, the pursuit of African oil has taken on the character of a gold rush, with major companies from …
The New Geography of Conflict
During the Cold War, strategic planning focused on diverging ideological views between the United States and the Soviet blocs located in central and southeastern Europe and Northeast Asia. In the last decade these regions lost much strategic significance for the U.S. whereas other regions (e.g., Caspian Sea basin, the Gulf states, South China Sea) are receiving increased attention from Washington and other industrialized countries. A renewed conc…
The Next Great Arms Race
Despite the end of the Cold War?perhaps because of it?the nations of East and Southeast Asia are engaged in accelerating arms races with significant implications for regional and international security. The recent sale of American F-16 fighter jets to Taiwan and Russian Su-27 fighter jets to China are part of a larger arms acquisi tion effort as both countries also upgrade their own military produc tion capabilities. Other countries in the region…
Climate Change, Water Scarcity, and the Potential for Interstate Conflict in South Asia
Ever since American security analysts began to consider the impact of global warming on international security, water has been viewed as an especially critical factor. In many parts of the developing world, water supplies are already insufficient to meet societal requirements, and, by shrinking these supplies further, climate change will cause widespread hardship, unrest, and conflict. But exactly what role water plays in this equation has been t…
Light Weapons and Civil Conflict: Controlling the Tools of Violence
Chapter 1 Introduction Part 2 Part One: Light Weapons and International Conflict Chapter 3 The International Trade in Light Weapons: What Have We Learned? Chapter 4 Light Weapons and Conflict in the Great Lakes Region of Africa Chapter 5 Controlling the Black and Gray Markets in Small Arms in South Asia Part 6 Part Two: Controlling the Supply of Light Weapons Chapter 7 U.S. Policy and the Export of Light Weapons Chapter 8 The European Union and t…
The Unnoticed Arms Trade: Exports of Conventional Arms-Making Technology
W orld leaders have long recognized that proliferation of nuclear-weapons technology represents a grave threat to international security, and accordingly have taken at least some steps to inhibit traffic in such expertise. Unfortunately, proliferation of conventional arms-making technology has not been viewed with same degree of concern, and consequently little effort has been made to curb exports of this type. Such neglect is potentially very da…
Oil, Iraq, and American Foreign Policy: The Continuing Salience of the Carter Doctrine
For years to come, historians are likely to ponder the reasons that led the United States to invade Iraq in March 2003-an invasion that has cost many lives and vast treasure but has yet to result in the establishment of a stable, legitimate regime. Many reasons, official and unofficial, have been advanced to explain the 2003 invasion, but none have proved entirely persuasive. The original explanation given for US military action-to eliminate the …
The arms trade in the 1990s: Changing patterns, rising dangers
Analysts of the conventional arms traffic have long understood that international trading patterns are closely related to developments in the world security environment, with changes in the global correlation of forces producing corresponding shifts in the worldwide flow of arms. It should not be surprising, then, to find that the end of the Cold War and the break-up of the Soviet Union have been accompanied by dramatic changes in the character a…
The arms trade: Changing patterns in the 1980s
(1987). The arms trade: Changing patterns in the 1980s. Third World Quarterly: Vol. 9, No. 4, pp. 1257-1281
Political Economy of U.S. Arms Sales
The Public Health Implications of Resource Wars
Competition for resources between or within nations is likely to become an increasingly common cause of armed conflict. Competition for petroleum is especially likely to trigger armed conflict because petroleum is a highly valuable resource whose supply is destined to contract. Wars fought over petroleum and other resources can create public health concerns by causing morbidity and mortality, damaging societal infrastructure, diverting resources,…
The Public Health Implications of Resource Wars
Competition for resources between or within nations is likely to become an increasingly common cause of armed conflict. Competition for petroleum is especially likely to trigger armed conflict because petroleum is a highly valuable resource whose supply is destined to contract. Wars fought over petroleum and other resources can create public health concerns by causing morbidity and mortality, damaging societal infrastructure, diverting resources,…
The New Geopolitics
The war in Iraq has reconfigured the global geopolitical landscape in many ways, some of which may not be apparent for years or even decades to come. It has certainly altered the u.s. relationship with Europe and the Middle East. But its impact goes well beyond this. More than anything else, the war reveals that the new central pivot of world competition is the south-central area of Eurasia.This article can also be found at the Monthly Review web…
Rogue states and nuclear outlaws: America's search for a new foreign policy
No sooner had the Soviet Union collapsed and the Cold War ended than the Pentagon declared a new threat, said to be every bit as menacing as the perceived enemies of the previous era: rising Third World powers equipped with chemical and nuclear weapons. Almost overnight, controlling these "rogue states" - North Korea, Libya, and Iran, among others - became the centerpiece of America's foreign policy and the justification for levels of military ex…
American Arms Supermarket
Carter's Arms Sales Policies: Business as Usual
IN June 1976, in one of his first major foreign policy statements Jimmy Carter raised what was to become a principal theme of his campaign for the presidency: the uncontrolled growth in US arms sales abroad. am particularly concerned, he told the Foreign Policy Association in New York, our nation's role as the world's leading arms salesman. Noting that US weapons exports often fuel local arms races in troubled Third World areas, Carter denounced …
Superpower Rivalry at Sea
The Architecture of Imperial America
Restructuring the Empire: The Nixon Doctrine after Vietnam
Ever since Richard Nixon announced that the United States would adopt a “low profile” defense posture in Asia, American foreign affairs analysts have sought to construct an accurate model of the new policy. Senate Majority Leader Mike Mansfield, who analyzed the Nixon Doctrine in a 1969 report to the Congress, concluded that henceforth “The United States will avoid the creation of situations in which there is such dependence on us that, inevitabl…
Interventionism after Vietnam: The New Imperial Navy
U.S. Military Strategy After Vietnam
Throughout most of the period since the Second World War, American military strategy has been predicated on the assumption that all-out war with the Soviet Union constituted the gravest potential threat to U.S. national security interests. To prepare for this impending conflagration, the United States acquired an awesome arsenal of nuclear weapons, and fielded an army that was primarily designed for thermonuclear warfare. In the prevailing view o…
Indian Ocean and Japan in US Grand Strategy
The political economy of arms sales: United states-saudi arabia
Superpower Rivalry at Sea
The Nixon/Kissinger Doctrine and America's pacific basin strategy
In early 1963, when America's Vietnam commitment was still limited to advisors, Green Berets and CIA commandos, Gen. Maxwell D. Taylor (then Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff) told Congress of the exciting prospects awaiting America's new counterinsurgency cadres in Indochina
Political Economy of U.S. Arms Sales
Carter's Arms Sales Policies: Business as Usual
IN June 1976, in one of his first major foreign policy statements Jimmy Carter raised what was to become a principal theme of his campaign for the presidency: the uncontrolled growth in US arms sales abroad. am particularly concerned, he told the Foreign Policy Association in New York, our nation's role as the world's leading arms salesman. Noting that US weapons exports often fuel local arms races in troubled Third World areas, Carter denounced …
Armas y poder en America Latina
Photo Essay: War Games for the '80's
Supplying Repression
The Era of Super-Violence
Conventional Arms Sales: Stoking the Nuclear Fire
The Unnoticed Arms Trade: Exports of Conventional Arms-Making Technology
W orld leaders have long recognized that proliferation of nuclear-weapons technology represents a grave threat to international security, and accordingly have taken at least some steps to inhibit traffic in such expertise. Unfortunately, proliferation of conventional arms-making technology has not been viewed with same degree of concern, and consequently little effort has been made to curb exports of this type. Such neglect is potentially very da…
Intervention and the Nuclear Firebreak in the Middle East
Conventional Arms, Military Doctrine, and Nuclear War: The Vanishing Firebreak
American Arms Supermarket
American Arms Supermarket
The arms trade: Changing patterns in the 1980s
(1987). The arms trade: Changing patterns in the 1980s. Third World Quarterly: Vol. 9, No. 4, pp. 1257-1281
North-South vs. East-West: The Shifting Focus of US Military Power
Low intensity warfare: Counterinsurgency, Proinsurgency, and Antiterrorism in the Eighties
The New Challenges to Global Security
Essay| April 01 1993 The New Challenges to Global Security Michael T. Klare Michael T. Klare Michael T. Klareis the Five College Associate 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. He is the author of American Arms Supermarket (Austin: University of Texas Press, 1984) and co-editor of Low-Intensity Warfare (New York: P…
The Next Great Arms Race
Despite the end of the Cold War?perhaps because of it?the nations of East and Southeast Asia are engaged in accelerating arms races with significant implications for regional and international security. The recent sale of American F-16 fighter jets to Taiwan and Russian Su-27 fighter jets to China are part of a larger arms acquisi tion effort as both countries also upgrade their own military produc tion capabilities. Other countries in the region…
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