Michael Klare: America's Energy Future
America's Energy Future: Oil, Dependency, and the Alternatives
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Tuesday, November 11, 2008 Portland Country Club
11 Foreside Rd. (Route 88)
Falmouth, Maine
Coffee at 7:00 a.m.
Breakfast at 7:30 a.m.
Presentation begins at 8:00-8:45 a.m.
followed by Q and A
Breakfast Program concludes at 9:00 a.m.
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Lecture Description With new emerging foreign markets such as China, India, and Russia asserting themselves on a global stage, dependence on natural resources is becoming a growing problem. No longer does a powerful military guarantee the dominance of “the state” in the international spectrum. Instead, a nation’s possession and control of natural resources such as oil, copper, uranium, coal, and natural gas allows them to wield disproportionate power. This has given a different dynamic to the concept on international relations and foreign policy. Also, given that this talk will happen after the elections for president, Mr. Klare will also discuss the impact that the elections may have on the current situation. The World Affairs Council of Maine continues its 2008-2009 Breakfast Series with distinguished speaker Michael Klare, author of Rising Powers, Shrinking Planet: The New Geopolitics of Energy. Klare will give a thoughtful and introspective look into the need for international cooperation in the face of a future global economic breakdown. Until the 1940’s, US oil consumption was a domestic policy matter. However, after World War II, it became apparent that the US would exhaust its domestic natural resources and would need to depend on foreign oil in order to feed our enormous growing economy. At this point, our dependence on oil became a foreign policy matter. Indeed, since the end of the Second World War, there have been many conflicts fought primarily over the use of natural resources. Since the end of the cold war, globalization has become a world phenomenon, and has allowed some much smaller states to assert themselves on the world stage. Countries that have depleted their once vast amounts of raw materials are losing much of their power, while areas of untapped energy and mineral reserves have suddenly acquired more global significance
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Michael T. Klare Klare is 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 at Amherst) and Director of the Five College Program in Peace and World Security Studies, positions he has held since 1985. Klare has written widely on U.S. defense policy, the arms trade, global resource politics, and world security affairs. He is the author of several books, including, most recently Blood and Oil: The Dangers and Consequences of America’s Growing Dependency on Imported Petroleum (Metropolitan Books, 2004), Resource Wars (Metropolitan Books, 2001); and Rogue States and Nuclear Outlaws (Hill and Wang, 1995). In addition, he is the co-editor of Light Weapons and Civil Conflict: Controlling the Tools of Violence (Rowman and Littlefield, 1999); Lethal Commerce: The Global Trade in Small Arms and Light Weapons (American Academy of Arts and Sciences, 1995); and World Security: Challenges for a New Century (three editions).
Klare is also the defense correspondent of The Nation magazine and a Contributing Editor of Current History. He has contributed articles to the these journals and to Foreign Affairs, ForeignPolicy, Harper's, International Security, Le Monde Diplomatique, Newsweek, Scientific American, Technology Review, Third World Quarterly, and World Policy Journal.
He received his B.A. and M.A. from Columbia University in 1963 and 1968, respectively, and his Ph.D. from the Graduate School of the Union Institute in 1976.
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