Ernst B. Haas

Ernst Bernard Haas (1924 – March 6, 2003) was a German-American political scientist who made numerous contributions to theoretical discussions in the field of international relations.

He was a leading authority on international relations theory, and was the founder of neofunctionalism.

Haas was a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and acted as a consultant to many national and international organizations.

Haas was born in Frankfurt, Germany, in 1924 to a secular Jewish family. He emigrated eventually to Chicago in the United States in 1938 due to Nazism and the rise of anti-semitism in Germany.

He attended the University of Chicago and then worked in the U.S. Army Military Intelligence Service from 1943-46 where he studied Japanese and Japanese weapons.

Following the war he studied at Columbia University, where he received his BS, followed by an MA. It was there, too, that he gained his PhD in public law and government in 1952.

Haas began his academic career in 1951 at UC Berkeley, where he remained until his death.

He was director of the UC Berkeley Institute for International Studies from 1969-73.

He was Robson Professor of Government in the University of California, Berkeley, political science department.After he retired in June 1999, he continued as a researcher and teacher at Berkeley.

He supervised many graduate students who also went on to successful careers.

Haas was mainly interested in international integration. Haas realized that traditional European politics could be dramatically changed by liberalizing movement of goods capital, and persons, but his analysis differed significantly from classical liberalism.

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