Johannes Maerk

PhD. University of Innsbruck Austria (Political Philosophy), Director of the Viennese Ideaz Institute, Lecturer at the University of Vienna and the Diplomatic Academy Vienna, and Professor at the University of Quintana Roo, Mexico (leave of absence). He also had research and teaching appointments at National University of Mexico (UNAM), Simon Fraser University/Vancouver, the University of the West Indies/Jamaica, State University of Rio de Janeiro (UERJ)/Brazil, and Warsaw University/Poland. His research interests are non-western and comparative social sciences (political thought, IR), epistemology, South-South relations, and development issues. He currently has research projects in Latin America and the Middle East. Among his publications are the edited volumes ?Existe una epistemologia latinoamericana? and ?Cómo democratizar la democracia,? as well as articles about political thought in Latin America and Canada, Red Vienna, and other topics related to his research interests.

Possui doutorado em Filosofia Politica y Social - University of Innsbruck (1995). Pós-Doutora pela Universidad Autónoma de Mexico (UNAM). Atualmente é director - Ideaz. Institute for Intercultural and Comparative Research, Viena, Austria. Autor e organizador de livros y articulos sobre América Latina, relações Sur-Sur, epistemología e interculturalidade.