Nobel Peace Prize nominee Michael Haas, who holds graduate degrees from Stanford and Yale, is author of more than 60 books on government and politics. He retired after teaching at Northwestern, Purdue, the University of California (Riverside), the University of Hawai'i, the University of London, and five campuses of California State University. The Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, Fulbright, and the U.S. Institute of Peace awarded him with research grants to facilitate his writings on Asia and the Pacific.