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Michael Schwartz

Michael Schwartz, Professor of Sociology and Faculty Director of the Undergraduate College of Global Studies at Stony Brook University, has written extensively on popular protest and insurgency as well as on American business and government dynamics. His books include Radical Protest and Social Structure, and Social Policy and the Conservative Agenda (edited with Clarence Lo). His work on Iraq has appeared on numerous Internet sites including Tomdispatch.com, Asia Times, Mother Jones.com, and ZNet, and in print in Contexts, Against the Current, and Z Magazine.

A Tipping Point for the Defeat of Fossil Fuels?

How to Stop Big Energy in Its Tracks (Quite Literally)

By Michael Schwartz On December 10, 2020On May 15, 2021

The Great Game in the Holy Land

How Gazan Natural Gas Became the Epicenter of An International Power Struggle

By Michael Schwartz On February 26, 2015On March 18, 2015

It’s the Oil, Stupid!

Insurgency and War on a Sea of Oil

By Michael Schwartz On June 24, 2014On May 15, 2021

Why Mubarak Fell

The (Sometimes) Incredible Power of Nonviolent Protest

By Michael Schwartz On February 15, 2011On May 15, 2021

Michael Schwartz, Will Iraq’s Oil Ever Flow?

By Michael Schwartz On February 2, 2010On July 12, 2021

Michael Schwartz, Twenty-First-Century Colonialism in Iraq

By Michael Schwartz On July 9, 2009On February 17, 2021

Michael Schwartz, Iraq in Hell

By Michael Schwartz On October 23, 2008On February 17, 2021

Michael Schwartz, Is American Success a Failure in Iraq?

By Michael Schwartz On September 7, 2008On May 15, 2021

Tomdispatch: Michael Schwartz, The Loss of an Imperial Dream

By Michael Schwartz On May 22, 2008On February 17, 2021

Michael Schwartz, How to Disintegrate a City

By Michael Schwartz On March 23, 2008On November 10, 2021

Michael Schwartz, The Iraqi Brain Drain

By Michael Schwartz On February 10, 2008On November 10, 2021

Michael Schwartz, Why Bush Won’t Leave Iraq

By Michael Schwartz On November 29, 2007On January 1, 2021

Michael Schwartz, Iraq Policy Floating on a Sea of Oil

By Michael Schwartz On October 30, 2007On February 17, 2021

Michael Schwartz, Benchmarking Iraq for Disaster

By Michael Schwartz On August 1, 2007On February 17, 2021

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