Peter M. Haas is a professor of political science at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. He received his Ph.D in 1986 from MIT, and has been at UMASS since 1987. He has had visiting positions at Yale University, Brown, Keio University, Oxford, and the Wissenschaftszentrum, Berlin. He has published extensively on international relations theory, constructivism, international environmental politics, global governance, and the interplay of science and international institutions at the international level.
He is the recipient of the 2014 Distinguished Scholar Award of the International Studies Association Environmental Studies Section, and the 2015 University of Massachusetts Amherst Award for Outstanding Accomplishments in Research and Creative Activity.
His recent work focuses on networked governance and the role of science in international environmental regimes. He is the author or co-author of many books, chapters, and peer reviewed articles. His work has been published in 7 languages.
He is the author of Constructivism, Epistemic Communities and International Environmental Politics (2015, Routledge), Global Environmental Governance (2006, Island Press, with Gus Speth); Saving the Mediterranean: The Politics of International Environmental Cooperation (1990, Columbia University Press), the edited Knowledge, Power and International Policy Coordination (1997: University of South Carolina Press), Institutions for the Earth: Sources of Effective International Environmental Protection (edited with Robert O. Keohane and Marc A. Levy MIT Press, 1993), a contributing author to Learning to Manage Global Environmental Risks (2 volumes, 2001, MIT Press), co-editor (with Norichike Kanie) of Emerging Forces in Environmental Governance 2004 UNU Press), co-editor (with Norichike Kanie and Steinar Andresen) of Improving Global Environmental Governance (2014 Routledge) and editor of The International Environment in the New Global Economy (2 volumes 2003 Edward Elgar), International Environmental Governance (2008Ashgate), and co-editor (with John Hird) of Controversies in Globalization 2nd edition(2012 Sage) as well as numerous peer reviewed articles in journals such as International Organization, Millennium, Global Governance, Journal of European Public Policy, Environment, Global Environmental Politics, Global Public Policy, and Marine Policy.
He has consulted for The Commission on Global Governance, the United Nations Environment Programme; the governments of the United States, France, Switzerland and Portugal; United States National Academy of Sciences, the American Association for the Advancement of Science, and the World Resources Institute. He has received grants from the National Science Foundation, German Marshall Fund, Rockefeller Brothers Fund, and Institute for the Study of World Politics, and the Gallatin Foundation.
