Arno Tausch is in his academic function Adjunct Professor (Universitaetsdozent) of Political Science at Innsbruck University, Department of Political Science, A-6020 Innsbruck University, Universitaetsstraße 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. 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, 6 books in German, and some 200 printed or electronic scholarly and current affairs publications in 6 languages (English, Finnish, French, German, Russian and Spanish), among these over 40 articles for major international social science journals in English, German, Russian and Spanish and over 20 articles for collective volumes, including Dutch University Press, Palgrave Macmillan, Routledge, and Saint Martin's Press, N.Y. In all, Tausch’s works were 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, Austria, France, Luxembourg, Poland, Russia and Turkey (the Austrian Institute for International Affairs, Vienna; the Centro Argentino de Estudios Internacionales, CAEI, Buenos Aires; the Luxembourg Institute for European and International Studies, LIEIS; the Centre Franco-Autrichien pour le rapprochement en Europe; CFA/OeFZ, Vienne; the Polish Institute for International Affairs, PISM, Warsaw; the IMEMO Institute, Moscow, the Ankara Center for Turkish Policy Studies, ANKAM, and the Vienna Institute for International Economic Studies, wiiw) and at the Jean Monnet Institutes of the European Union (the JMI at the University of Catania, Sicily; Italy, Trier, FRG; and Wroclaw, Poland). Publications, which he authored or co-authored, or to which he contributed, featured or feauture as recommended materials at 30 major Universities and centers of higher learning around the world, including Harvard University, and are on the reading lists of major international organizations, such as the European Commission, the ILO, the OECD, the Indian Ministry of External Affairs, the World Bank, and the United Nations, and were referred to in over 120 international journals/yearbooks, and over 80 major international textbooks of social sciences. Major electronic English language publications are 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. 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.dealoz.com/

• European studies
• enlargement of the Euro pean Union
• Mediterranean Union
• EU foreign policy
• Latin America
• Muslim world