Michael Haas (political scientist)

Michael Haas
Born 1938 (age 79–80)
Detroit, Michigan, U.S.
Alma mater Stanford University
Yale University

Michael Haas (born 1938, Detroit, Michigan) is an American political scientist.

Professional career

Haas received his cum laude baccalaureate degree at Stanford University in 1959. Yale University awarded him a master's degree in 1960. He received his Ph.D. at Stanford in 1964. All degrees were in political science.

Under the direction of his thesis adviser, Robert C. North, his Ph.D. dissertation, Some Societal Correlates of International Political Behavior demonstrated that countries go to war after serious unemployment results in increased suicide. During his last year of work on his doctoral degree, he taught temporarily at San Jose State University from 1963 to 1964. He then accepted a permanent position at the University of Hawai`i’s main campus in Manoa Valley, Honolulu, where he rose from Assistant Professor to Professor from 1964 to 1971 and remained until 1998.

While on the faculty in Honolulu, he also held temporary positions at Northwestern University, Purdue University, the University of California (Riverside), San Francisco State University, the University of the Philippines, and the University of London.

His research appointments include a United Nations Institute for Training and Research (UNITAR) consultancy at the United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific in Bangkok during 1971 and a Fulbright Research Fellowship at the Institute of Southeast Asian Studies on the University of Singapore campus in 1987.

In 1998, for family reasons, he opted for early retirement and returned to Los Angeles. During the next decade, he held temporary positions at Loyola Marymount University, California State University, Fullerton, California State University, Los Angeles, California State Polytechnic University, Pomona, Rio Hondo College, College of the Canyons, and Occidental College. In December 2008, he resigned from his latest teaching position to complete George W. Bush, War Criminal? The Liability of the Bush Administration for 269 War Crimes (2009).

Books Published

  • Approaches to the Study of Political Science (1970)
  • International Organization: An Interdisciplinary Bibliography (1971)
  • International Systems: A Behavioral Approach (1974)
  • Basic Documents of Asian Regional Organizations (1974), vols. 1-4
  • International Conflict (1974)
  • Politics and Prejudice in Contemporary Hawaii (1976)
  • Basic Documents of Asian Regional Organizations (1979), vols. 5-7
  • Fundamentals of Asian Regional Cooperation (1980)
  • Basic Data of Asian Regional Organizations (1985)
  • Korean Reunification: Alternative Pathways (1989)
  • The Pacific Way: Regional Cooperation in the South Pacific (1989)
  • The Asian Way to Peace: A Story of Regional Cooperation (1989)
  • Cambodia, Pol Pot, and the United States: The Faustian Pact (1991)
  • Genocide by Proxy: Cambodian Pawn on a Superpower Chessboard (1991)
  • Polity and Society: Philosophical Underpinnings of Social Science Paradigms (1992)
  • Institutional Racism: The Case of Hawai`i (1992)
  • Improving Human Rights (1994)
  • Deconstructing International Relations Theory (1997)
  • Racism, Sexism and Heterosexism (1997)
  • The Political Film Today (1998)
  • Multicultural Hawai`i: The Fabric of a Multiethnic Society (1998)
  • International Human Rights (1999)
  • The Singapore Puzzle (1999)
  • American Government in Turmoil (2000)
  • Discrimination, American Style (2000)
  • The Politics of Human Rights (2000)
  • Comparing Governments and Global Policies (2001)
  • Discrimination and Public Policy (2001)
  • Human Rights Imperiled (2001)
  • Choices: An American Government Reader (2001)
  • International Relations: Arena of Terror (2002)
  • International Human Rights in Jeopardy (2004)
  • International Human Rights: A Comprehensive Introduction (2008)
  • George W. Bush, War Criminal?: The Bush Administration's Liability for 269 War Crimes (2009)
  • America's War Crimes Quagmire: From Bush to Obama (2010)
  • Looking for the Aloha Spirit: Promoting Ethnic Harmony (2010)
  • Barack Obama, The Aloha Zen President: How a Son of the 50th State May Revitalize America Based on 12 Multicultural Principles (2011)
  • Modern Cambodia's Emergence from the Killing Fields: What Happened in the Critical Years? (2011)
  • Mr. Quiet and Effective: Evaluating the Presidency of Barack Obama (2012)
  • Korean Reunification: Alternative Pathways, 2nd edn. (2012)
  • Asian and Pacific Regional Cooperation: Turning Zones of Conflict into Arenas of Peace (2013)
  • International Human Rights: A Comprehensive Introduction, 2nd edn. (2014)
  • Deconstructing the "Democratic Peace": How a Research Agenda Boomeranged" (2014)
  • The Singapore Puzzle, 2nd edn. (2014)
  • Hollywood Raises Political Consciousness: Political Messages in Feature Films (2014)
  • How to Demolish Racism: Lessons from the State of Hawai`i (2016)
  • International Relations Theory: Competing Empirical Paradigms (2017)
  • Political Science Revitalized: Filling the Jigsaw Puzzle with Metatheory (2017)
  • Racial Harmony Is Achievable: Lessons from the Kingdom of Hawai`i (2017)
  • United States Diplomacy with North Korea and Vietnam: Explaining Failure and Success (2018)
  • Why Democracies Flounder and Fail: Remedying Mass Society Politics (2019)
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