Michael T. Klare, one of the world’s most renowned experts on energy and security issues, is the Five College Professor of Peace and World Security Studies and Director of the Five College Program in Peace and World Security Studies (a joint appointment at Amherst College, Hampshire College, Mount Holyoke College, Smith College, and the University of Massachusetts at Amherst). He is the defense correspondent of The Nation magazine and a Contributing Editor of Current History.

From the author of Resource Wars, comes a landmark assessment of the critical role of petroleum in America’s actions abroad. With clarity and urgency, Blood and Oil delineates the United States’ predicament and cautions that it is time to change the country’s energy policies, before it spends the next decades paying for oil with blood.
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This sobering look at the future of warfare predicts that conflicts will now be fought over diminishing supplies of our most precious natural resources. This is a look at the future of warfare in an era of heightened environmental stress and accelerated economic competition.
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Surveying the energy-driven dynamic that is reconfiguring the international landscape where all materials vital for the functioning of modern industrial societies (not just oil and natural gas but uranium, coal, copper, and others) are finite and being depleted at an ever-accelerating rate, Michael Klare forecasts a future of surprising new alliances and explosive danger.
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In Rogue States and Nuclear Outlaws, Michael Klare takes on the great post-Cold War dilemma: with the collapse of the Soviet Union, what should U.S. national security strategy be and what, more recently, has it become?
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