Tra i fondatori europei dell'indagine quantitativa nella cosiddetta "teoria del sistema-mondo" e nell'economia dello sviluppo, la sua ricerca è indirizzata soprattutto alla teoria della dipendenza, allo studio degli effetti quantitativi della globalizzazione sui sistemi sociali, ad analisi europee nel quadro delle relazioni "centro-periferia" e a ricerche quantitative sulla pace.Cfr. il sito personale del professor Tausch sul .
Tausch è anche impegnato nel promuovere il dialogo fra le maggiori religioni del mondo ed è un attivo partecipante del movimento ecumenico e del movimento della teologia della liberazione.
Formazione e vita accademica Tausch ha conseguito il suo dottorato di ricerca in scienze politiche presso l'Università di Salisburgo nel 1976 e l'abilitazione all'insegnamento presso l'Università di Innsbruck da una commissione presieduta da Anton Pelinka. Ha ricoperto il ruolo di visiting professor presso il dipartimento di scienze politiche dell'Università delle Hawaii a Manoa e di ricercatore presso l'Istituto di Ricerca Sociale Comparata di Berlino Ovest (ora: WZB - Centro di Ricerca delle Scienze Sociali di Berlino). Attualmente è professore associato di Scienze Politiche presso l'Università di Innsbruck, docente all'Istituto per lo sviluppo internazionale dell'Università di Vienna e visiting professor di Economia presso l'Università Corvinus di Budapest.
Recentemente è stato Visiting Professor di Studi Politici e Governance presso la University of the Free State di Bloemfontein, in Sudafrica.
Associazioni e riviste scientifiche È membro del comitato di redazione del Centro Argentino de Estudios Internacionales e di diverse riviste scientifiche, tra le quali Entelequia. Revista Interdisciplinar presso l'Università di Cadice in Spagna, The European Journal of Social Science Research (pubblicato da Routledge, Londra), History & Mathematics Almanach e il Journal of Globalization Studies; gli ultimi due entrambi pubblicati a Mosca da Leonid Grinin e dal professor Andrei Witaljewitsch Korotajew.
Carriera diplomatica Dal 1992 al 1999 ha svolto il ruolo di agente diplomatico e consigliere austriaco per il Lavoro e l'Immigrazione presso l'ambasciata austriaca a Varsavia, Polonia.
Lavoro scientifico In generale, la letteratura delle scienze sociali cita il lavoro di Arno Tausch soprattutto nel contesto di dibattiti sul keynesismo globale,Hackett, C. (2016). Development in an Era of Capital Control: Embedding Corporate Social Responsibility Within a Transnational Regulatory Framework. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan.: Hickel, J. (2017). Is global inequality getting better or worse? A critique of the World Bank’s convergence narrative. Third World Quarterly, 1-15.: Ricci, A. (2016). Unequal Exchange in International Trade: A General Model. Working Papers Series in Economics, Mathematics and Statistics. Department of Economics, Society and Politics, University of Urbino. Available at: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Andrea_Ricci5/publication/311533485_Unequal_Exchange_in_International_Trade_A_General_Model/links/586bde7408aebf17d3a5b03b/Unequal-Exchange-in-International-Trade-A-General-Model.pdf la teoria socio-liberale dello sviluppo mondiale,Çelik, Y., Khan, M., & Hikmet, N. (2016). Achieving value for money in health: a comparative analysis of OECD countries and regional countries. The International journal of health planning and management. 2016 Aug 11. doi: 10.1002/hpm.2375. [Epub ahead of print]; Menchaca, M. (2016). The Politics of Dependency: US Reliance on Mexican Oil and Farm Labor. University of Texas Press.; Wang, F. L. (2016). Institutions and institutional change in China: Premodernity and modernization. Springer; le Onde di Kondrat'ev,Ichkitidze, Y. R., & Petryakov, A. A. (2016). Cascade Model of Innovative Dynamics with Investment Flows. Indian Journal of Science and Technology, 9(14); Le Monde, Mardi 21 Mars 2017. Misurazione della povertà,Canaviri, J. A. (2016). Measuring the concept of “wellbeing”: A first approach for Bolivia. International Journal of Wellbeing, 6(1), 36-80. doi:10.5502/ijw.v6i1.363; Kim, Y., Oh, D. H., & Kang, M. (2016). Productivity changes in OECD healthcare systems: bias‐corrected Malmquist productivity approach. The International journal of health planning and management, 31(4), 537-553; Köhler, L. (2016). Monitoring children's health and well‐being by indicators and index: apples and oranges or fruit salad?. Child: care, health and development. 2016 Nov;42(6):798-808. doi: 10.1111/cch.12373. Epub 2016 Aug 6.; Mishra, A., Ray, R., & Risse, L. (2016). The Multidimensional Disadvantage of Australian Children with a Comparison between Indigenous and Non-Indigenous Children (No. 19-16). Monash University, Department of Economics, DISCUSSION PAPER 19/16.; Thoresen, P., Fielding, A., Gillieatt, S., & Thoresen, S. H. (2016). Identifying the Needs of Refugee and Asylum-Seeking Children in Thailand: A Focus on the Perspectives of Children. Journal of Refugee Studies, few028. teorie economiche della dipendenza e globalizzazione,Barlow, P., McKee, M., Basu, S., & Stuckler, D. (2017). The health impact of trade and investment agreements: a quantitative systematic review and network co-citation analysis. Globalization and health, 13(1), 13.; Hackett, C. (2016). Development in an Era of Capital Control: Embedding Corporate Social Responsibility Within a Transnational Regulatory Framework. Palgrave Macmillan.; Jawad, A. Q., & Scott-Jackson, W. (2016). Redefining Well-Being in Nations and Organizations: A Process of Improvement. Springer.; Parshad, R. D., Quansah, E., Black, K., & Beauregard, M. (2016). Biological control via “ecological” damping: An approach that attenuates non-target effects. Mathematical biosciences, 273, 23-44.; Pilke, R., & Stocchetti, M. (2016). Inequality and poverty: The ill-fitting pieces in the EU’s development partnerships. Regions and Cohesion, 6(1), 1-22.; Quansah, E., Parshad, R. D., Mondal, S., & Upadhyay, R. K. (2016). Can the control of invasive species be left to chance?. Natural Resources & Engineering, 1(1), 13-25. studi empirici basati sulla World Values Survey,Zhai, Y. (2017). Values of deference to authority in Japan and China. International Journal of Comparative Sociology, 58(2), 120-139; Balambo, M. A. (2014). Hofstede’s model revisited: an application for measuring the Moroccan national culture. International Journal of Business Quantitative Economics and Applied Management Research, 1(3), 5-9.; Cavalcanti, T. M. (2016). A natureza dos valores humanos: Evidências acerca das necessidades psicológicas. Ph.D. thesis, Universidade Federal de Paraiba, Brasil.; Ekici, T., & Yucel, D. (2015). What determines religious and racial prejudice in Europe? The effects of religiosity and trust. Social Indicators Research, 122(1), 105-133.; Habibov, N., & Cheung, A. (2017). The contextual‐level effects of social trust on health in transitional countries: Instrumental variable analysis of 26 countries. The International Journal of Health Planning and Management. 2017 Jun 19. doi: 10.1002/hpm.2427. [Epub ahead of print]; Haney, J. L. (2016). Predictors of Homonegativity in the United States and the Netherlands Using the Fifth Wave of the World Values Survey. Journal of homosexuality, 63(10), 1355-1377.; Nollert, M., & Sheikhzadegan, A. (2016). Participation and Sharing, or Peaceful Co-Existence? Visions of Integration among Muslims in Switzerland. Social Inclusion, 4(2) studi del antisemitismo,Beattie, P. (2016). Anti-Semitism and opposition to Israeli government policies: the roles of prejudice and information. Ethnic and Racial Studies, 1-19. Fondamentalismo islamico,Beninati, J. A. (2016). Examining the cyber operations of ISIS (Doctoral dissertation, Utica College).; Bonino, S. (2016). The British state ‘security syndrome’ and Muslim diversity: challenges for liberal democracy in the age of terror. Contemporary Islam, 10(2), 223-247.; Cesari, J. (2017). Religion and Diasporas: Challenges of the Emigration Countries. In Migrant Integration Between Homeland and Host Society Volume 1 (pp. 173-199). Springer International Publishing; Esmer, Y. (2013). Democracy, Civil Society, and Islam. In Religion and Civil Society in Europe (pp. 267-284). Springer Netherlands.; Filetti, A. (2017). the decline of self-interest: reality or myth? analysing the polarisation of opinions across european societies. European Political Science, 16, 60-78.; Solomon, H. (2016). Islamic State and the coming global confrontation. Springer e studi sulla Unione Europea e lo stato sociale.Maria, B., & Mitrakos, T. (2016). Social Indicators and the Effectiveness of Social Transfers in Greece over the Recent Crisis. Bank of Greece Discussion Papers, 2016-04-18; Piet, R. B. (2011). Energy and environment—The “coal and steel” of the Union for the Mediterranean: How sustainable development can ensure democratization in the Middle East and North Africa. University of Miami, Ph.D. thesis, Department of Political Science; Yilmaz, G. S. (2017). The Effectiveness Analysis of Public Education and Health Expenditure. Turkish Economic Review, 4(1), 122.; Magnusson, L., & Stråth, B. (2016). A Brief History of Political Economy: Tales of Marx, Keynes and Hayek. Edward Elgar Publishing; Khayyat, N. T., & Lee, J. D. (2015). A measure of technological capabilities for developing countries. Technological Forecasting and Social Change, 92, 210-223; Katrougalos, G. S. (2010). Constitutional limitations of Social Security Privatisation: A human rights approach. European Journal of Social Security, 12(1), 16-40.; Stuchlik, A. (Ed.). (2009). Rentenreform in Mittel-und Osteuropa: Impulse und Politikleitbilder für die Europäische Union. Springer-Verlag.; Bolle, M., & Pamp, O. (2010). Sustainable Convergence and Pension Reform in Central and Eastern Europe. In Rentenreform in Mittel-und Osteuropa (pp. 225-249). VS Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften.; Galazoulas, T., & Tsetoura, A. (2014). Social Security Administration Confronting Sustainability Challenges the Greek Pension System from a Comparative Perspective. European Journal of Social Security, 16(2), 140-164.