Occupation
Brief Biography
Arno Tausch is in his academic function Adjunct Professor (Universitaetsdozent) of Political Science at Innsbruck University, Department of Political Science, A-6020 Innsbruck University, Universitätsstraße 15, 2nd Floor/West, A-6020 Innsbruck; Austria (Founder: Professor Anton Pelinka). In his academic career, he was also Associate Visiting Professor, Department of Political Science, University of Hawaii at Manoa, and Guest Researcher, International Institute for Comparative Social Research, Science Center, West Berlin, upon invitation by the late Karl Wolfgang Deutsch, Stanfield Professor of International Peace at Harvard University. He served as an Austrian diplomat abroad and was Counselor for Labor and Migration at the Austrian Embassy in Warsaw and he is now Ministerial Counselor in the Department for European Union Coordination, Directorate-General for European, International and Social Policies at the Ministry of Social Affairs and Consumer Protection in Vienna, Austria. His research program is focused on world systems studies, development and dependency studies, European studies, and quantitative peace research.
He authored or co-authored 15 books in English, 5 books in German, and in all over 190 printed or electronic scholarly and current affairs publications in 6 languages (English, Finnish, French, German, Russian and Spanish) for well over 50 journals and/or publishing institutions around the globe.
Among these publications there are 35 articles for 24 major peer-reviewed social science journals, and books and book chapters for such publishing houses as Dutch University Press, Nova Science Publishers, N.Y., Palgrave Macmillan, Rozenberg, Routledge, Saint Martin's Press, N.Y.. In all, Tausch's works were already published or re-published in 26 countries around the globe: Argentina; Australia; Austria; Canada; China; Finland; France; Germany; Greece, India; Indonesia; Irish Republic; Israel; Italy; Luxembourg; the Netherlands; Pakistan; Poland; Russia; Slovenia; South Korea; Spain; Sweden; Turkey, the United Kingdom and the United States of America
His publications also appeared in the publication series of important foreign policy think tanks in Argentina, France, Luxembourg, Poland, Russia and Turkey (Centro Argentino de Estudios Internacionales, CAEI, Buenos Aires; the Luxembourg Institute for European and International Studies, LIEIS; Centre Franco-Autrichien pour le rapprochement en Europe; CFA/OeFZ; the Polish Institute for International Affairs, PISM; the IMEMO Institute, Moscow, and the Ankara Center for Turkish Policy Studies, ANKAM) and at the Jean Monnet Institutes of the European Union (the JMI at the University of Trier, FRG, and at the University of Catania, Sicily, Italy). Publications, which he authored or co-authored, or to which he contributed, feature as recommended materials at major Universities and centers of higher learning around the world, and are on the reading lists of major international organizations, such as the European Commission, the ILO, the OECD, the World Bank, and the United Nations, and were referred to in some 130 international journals/yearbooks, and textbooks of social sciences. Major electronic English language publications are now accessible from the World Systems Archive at the University of California, Riverside, the Global Development Network at Sussex University, from IDEAS/REPEC at the University of Connecticut, and from SSRN, the Social Science Research Network in New York, N.Y. Together with Professor Dr. Peter Herrmann from Cork University in Ireland he finished a 2 volume book dedicated to the issue of the Euro-Mediterranean partnership of the European Union, which appeared in New York in 2005. Dr. Tausch, speaker at the “Krynica Economic Forum” 2007, is an active participant in the liberation theology movement and the ecumenical dialogue between the major world religions since the 1970s.
Available book publications: http://www.campusi.com
Extracurricular activities
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Knowledge
Fields of study / research
Political Science, International Relations, International Political Economy, International Social Policy, European Union Studies
Courses / Lectures / Seminars