Michael 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, and his recent books include Blood and Oil: The Dangers and Consequences of America’s Growing Dependency on Imported Petroleum and Resource Wars. In addition, he is the co-editor of Light Weapons and Civil Conflict: Controlling the Tools of Violence; Lethal Commerce: The Global Trade in Small Arms and Light Weapons; and World Security: Challenges for a New Century. Klare is the defense correspondent of The Nation magazine and a contributing editor of Current History. Other articles have appeared in Foreign Affairs, ForeignPolicy, Harper's, International Security, Le Monde Diplomatique, Newsweek, Scientific American, Technology Review, Third World Quarterly, and World Policy Journal.