Asian and Pacific Regional Cooperation—Turning Zones of Conflict into Arenas of Peace

Nobel Peace Prize nominee Michael Haas is a graduate of Stanford and Yale. He is the author of more than 40 pathbreaking publications, most recently Barack Obama, The Aloha Zen President: How a Son of the 50th State May Revitalize America Based on 12 Multicultural Principles (2011), George W. Bush, War Criminal?: The Bush Administrations's Liability for 239 War Crimes (2009), America's War Crimes Quagmire: From Bush to Obama (2011), the widely accepted textbook International Human Rights: A Comprehensive Introduction (2013), Looking for the Aloha Spirit; Promoting Ethnic Harmony (2010), Modern Cambodia's Emergence from the Killing Fields: What Happened in the Critical Years? (2011), and the second edition of Korean Reunification: Alternative Pathways (2012). After teaching for 35 years at the University of Hawai'i, with visiting appointments at Northwestern University, Purdue University, the University of California (Riverside), the University of London, and several California State University campuses, he relocated to California, where he is President of the Political Film Society and is on the faculty at California Polytechnic University, Pomona.