Blood and Oil: The Dangers and Consequences of America's Growing Dependency on Imported Petroleum

Speaker: Michael Klare

Date: October 22, 2008

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Michael T. Klare is the Five College Professor of 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), and Director of the Five College Program in Peace and World Security Studies (PAWSS), a position he has held since 1985. Before assuming his present post, he served as Director of the Program on Militarism and Disarmament at the Institute for Policy Studies in Washington, D.C. (1977-84)

Professor Klare has written widely on U.S. defense policy, the arms trade, and world security affairs. He will discuss his current book, Blood and Oil: The Dangers and Consequences of America's Growing Dependency on Imported Petroleum (Metropolitan Books, 2004). A book signing will follow.