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Axel Dorscht
9 Second Avenue, Suite 2
Ottawa, Ontario, K1S 2H2
Canada
Tel: (613) 233-8354
E-mail: a.dorscht@ihcmd.org
Education
PhD, Political Economy, Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada (1988)
MA, International Relations, Simon Fraser University, Vancouver, Canada (1977)
BA (Hon), Political Science, Simon Fraser University, Vancouver, Canada (1975)
Professional Experience
Head
- Institute for Human Conceptual and Mental Development (IHCMD) (1990 - present)
Consultant
- International Development Research Centre (IDRC), Ottawa, Canada (1990-92)
- Canadian International Development Agency (CIDA), Ottawa, Canada (1989-1991)
Acting Director
- Alternative News Indices Project, Centre for Communication, Culture and Society,
Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada (1988-89)
Professor
- Political Science, St. Francis Xavier University, Antigonish, NS, Canada (1985-87)
Lecturer
- Political Science, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Canada (1984)
- Political Science, Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada (1983- 1985)
- Volkshochschule, Bonn, Germany (1982).
Researcher
- Commission on the Economic Union and Development Prospects for Canada Project, "The
Tri-Partite Experience. A Comparative Study," Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada
(1984).
Researcher\Translator
- DND\SSHRC\Carleton University Project, "The Warsaw Treaty Organization," Bonn,
Germany (1981-82).
Correspondent (free lance)
- The Financial Post, Toronto, Canada (in Bonn, Germany) (1981-82).
Teaching Assistant
- Political Science, Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada (1977-1981)
- Political Science, Simon Fraser University, Vancouver, Canada (1975-77).
Publications\Reports\Papers
"Sustaining Human Existence in Changing Conditions, Human Mental Existence and
Human Conceptual and Mental Development," a set of nine discussion papers, SHEHCMD
Study, Institute for Human Conceptual and Mental Development (IHCMD), presented in a
series of Online Workshops, Information Sessions and Study and Training Programs
(1996-2002)
"Socio-Cultural and Psychological Causes of the Ecological Crisis," presented
at the first Annual Meeting of the Environmental Studies Association of Canada (Learned
Societies Annual Meeting, 1994)
"The Crisis of Industrial Culture and Society," presented at the Society for
Socialist Studies 1994 Annual Meeting (Learned Societies Annual Meeting, 1994)
"The Limits of Liberal Democracy: The Frontiers Within," present at the
Society for Socialist Studies 1994 Annual Meeting (Learned Societies Annual Meeting, 1994)
"Towards Environmentally Sustainable Society: Prerequisites of Environmentally
Sustainable Culture," Discussion Paper (Institute for Social Research Paper, present
to the 1993 Canadian Political Science Association and the Society for Socialist Studies
Annual Conference, Ottawa, June 1993).
"Towards Environmentally Sustainable Society: Conditions of Human Existence,
Industrial Culture, and the Causes of the Ecological Crisis," Discussion Paper
(Institute of Social Research Paper, present at two-day Workshop organized in cooperation
with Institute for Research on Environment and Economy, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, May
1993).
"Learning Organization: Inner Understanding and Self-Directed Human Behaviour and
Action" (Institute for Social Research Paper, November 1992).
"Conducting Successful Multi-Stakeholder Meetings" (Institute for Social
Research, Internal Paper, October 1992).
"Total Quality Management and Management of Human Behaviour" (Institute for
Social Research, Internal Paper, June 1992).
"Culture and the Human Causes of the Ecological Crisis" (Institute for Social
Research Paper, present to the 1992 Canadian Political Science Association and the Society
for Socialist Studies Annual Conference, Charlottetown, June 1992; Workshop on
Materialism, School of Business, Queen's University, June 1992; Institute for Research on
Environment and Economy, University of Ottawa, November 1992).
"Human Behaviour, the Ecological Crisis, and Environmentally Sustainable
Society," in Floyd Rudmin and Marsha Richins (eds.), Meaning, Measure, and
Morality of Materialism (School of Business, Queen's University and the Association
for Consumer Research, 1992).
"Politics of Transformation and the Process of Social Change," in Joe Roberts
and Jesse Vorst (eds.), Socialism in Crisis? Canadian Perspective
(Winnipeg/Halifax: Society for Socialist Studies/Fernwood Publishing, 1992).
"Governance: The Issue and Donor Activities (Report for the International
Development Research Centre, Ottawa), April 1992.
"IDRC and Governance: Consideration and Opportunities", (Report for the
International Development Research Centre, Ottawa), March 1992.
"Development and Development Aid: Trends, Directions, Implications", (Report
for the International Development Research Centre, Ottawa), December 1991.
"The Change in the Role of the State in the Third World (Report for the
International Development Research Centre, Ottawa), August 1991.
"Biotechnology and Development: Trends and Issues (Report for the International
Development Research Centre, Ottawa), September 1989.
"Les mouvements sociaux et la politique de l'information," Communication,
(Printemps 1989).
"International Relations as a Critical Social Science" (presented to the 1989
Canadian Political Science Association Annual Meeting, Quebec City, June 1989).
"Mainstream Realist International Relations and the Legitimization of the
Capitalist State" (presented to the 1988 Northeastern Political Science Association
Annual Meeting, Providence, RI, November 1988).
"A Deconstruction of Realist International Relations" (presented to the 1988
American Political Science Association Annual Meeting, Washington, DC, September 1988).
"Post-Realism and the Study of International Relations" (presented to the 1988
Canadian Political Science Association Annual Meeting, Windsor, June 1988).
Book Review, Conflict and Control in the World Economy: Contemporary Economic Realism
and Neo-Mercantilism, by R.J. Barry Jones, Atlantic Highlands, N.J. Humanities Press,
1986, Canadian Journal of Political Science, Vol. XX, No. 4, December 1987.
"Foreign policy debate and 'realism'" (co-author), International
Perspectives, November/December 1986.
"Canada's international role and 'realism'" (co-author), International
Perspectives, September/October 1986.
"Canada`s foreign foreign policy" (co-author), International Perspectives,
May\June 1986.
Book Review, Culture, Ideology, and World Order, by R.J.B. Walker, ed., Boulder,
Westview Press, 1984, Canadian Journal of Political Science, Vol. XVIII, No. 2,
June 1985.
"Economic Development and Changing State-Labour Relations in the Federal Republic
of Germany," Occasional Papers No. 12, Department of Political Science, Carleton
University, March 1985.
"Political Economy and Changing State-Labour Relations in the Federal Republic of
Germany" (presented to the 1984 Canadian Political Science Association Annual
Meeting, Guelph, June 1984).
"Concerted Action: Economic Policy Instrument or New Industrial Relations
Order?" (presented to the 1982 European Consortium for Political Research Joint
Sessions, Aarhus, Denmark, April 1982).
"The Transition from Neo-Liberal to Keynesian Economics in the Federal Republic of
Germany" (presented to the 1981 European Studies Group Workshop, Ottawa, December
1981).
"The Concerted Action Program: Incomes Policy in the Federal Republic of
Germany" (presented to the 1981 Canadian Political Science Association Annual
Meeting, Halifax, June 1981).
"Energy the Election Issue: Elections '80 - Canada and West Germany"
(co-author), in Robert Gilsdorf and F.C. Engelmann (eds.), Energy Resources and
Centre-Periphery Relations: Canada and Europe, (Edmonton: European Politics Group,
1981).
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