Michael Mousseau is an American political scientist teaching at Koç University in Istanbul, Turkey. He earned his Ph.D. from Binghamton University (1998), after several years of ethnographic research in many regions, including East Africa (1991), the Indian sub-continent (1992), and the Soviet Union (1991). He is a former Research Fellow at the Belfer Center International Security Program, Harvard University (2005 - 2006), and the United Nations Studies Program, Yale University (2003). He is the creator of economic norms theory, which identifies how economic conditions can affect a nation's political culture and governing institutions, and how these processes can affect war and peace. To achieve a permanent peace within and between nations, Mousseau advocates that the wealthy countries expend the resources necessary to bring equal and gainful employment for the majority of those living in lesser developed countries. Articles have appeared in Conflict Management and Peace Science, European Journal of International Relations, International Interactions, International Security, International Studies Quarterly, Journal of Conflict Resolution, and Journal of Peace Research.