Michael T. Klare
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"Resource Wars: The New Landscape of Global Conflict"
October 25, 2008
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Recently, an unprecedented Chinese attempt to acquire the major American energy firm
Unocal was blocked by Congress amidst hysterical warnings of a Communist
threat. But the political grandstanding missed a larger point: the takeover
bid was a harbinger of a new structure of world power, based not on market
forces or on arms and armies but on the possession of vital natural resources
Surveying the energy-driven dynamic that is reconfiguring the international landscape, Michael Klare, the preeminent expert on resource geopolitics, forecasts a future of surprising new alliances and explosive danger. World leaders are now facing the stark recognition that 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. As a result, governments rather than corporations are increasingly spearheading the pursuit of resources. In a radically altered world— where Russia is transformed from battered Cold War loser to arrogant broker of Eurasian energy, and the United States is forced to compete with the emerging “Chindia” juggernaut—the only route to survival on a shrinking planet, Klare shows, lies through international cooperation
Michael T. Klare is the author of thirteen books, including Blood and Oil and Resource Wars. A regular contributor to Harper’s, Foreign Affairs, and the Los Angeles Times, he is the defense analyst for The Nation and the director of the Five College Program in Peace and World Security Studies at Hampshire College in Amherst.
Past Interviews
Rising Powers, Shrinking Planet, June 21, 2008
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Blood and Oil, January 15, 2005
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