Austrian Foreign Policy in Historical Context

Austrian Foreign Policy in Historical Context offers an up-to-date status report of Austrias foreign policy trajectories and diplomatic options. Contributors include leading experts from around the world who assess issues such as Late Hapsburg and the First Republic Foreign Policy, Second Republic Foreign Policy, and contribute to a Roundtable on the Austrian Occupation. Review essays and book reviews on art theft, anti-Semitism, the Hungarian crisis of 1956, among other topics, complete the volume.

1: Introduction; 3: Austrian Foreign Policy after World War II; 2: Topical Essays; I: Introduction; 4: Diplomats: Symbols of Sovereignty become Managers of Interdependence: The Transformation of the Austrian Diplomatic Service; 5: An Institutional History of the Austrian Foreign Office in the Twentieth Century; 6: Sources on the Diplomacy of the Ballhausplatz; II: Late Habsburg and First Republic Foreign Policy; 7: The Militarization of Austrian Foreign Policy on the Eve of World War I; 8: Austria between Mussolini and Hitler: War by Other Means; III: Second Republic Foreign Policy: Turning Points and Continuities; 9: Between East and West: The Origins of Post-World War II Austrian Diplomacy during the Early Occupation Period; 10: Neutral Encounters of the Paranoid Kind: Austria's Reactions to the Hungarian Crisis of 1956; Kreisky - Brandt - Khrushchev: The United States and Austrian Mediation during the Berlin Crisis, 1958-1963; 12: From Cooperation to Integration: The Foreign Policy/ies of the Austrian Lä nder; 13: ESDP and Austria: Security Policy between Engagement and Neutrality; 14: Foreign Policy in the Age of Globalization: Does Globalization Constrain Nation States' Sovereignty in Conceiving and Maintaining their Foreign Policy? ; 15: Recent Balkans Diplomacy from an Austrian Perspective; 3: Non-Topical Essay; 16: The Institutionalization of American Studies at Austrian Universities: The Innsbruck Model; 4: Roundtable 1; 5: The Historiography and Memory of the Austrian Occupation (1945-1955); 17: The Allied Occupation of Austria in Recent International and Austrian Historiography; 18: The "Allied Occuption" and the Collective Memory of Austrians after 1945: "Ending a 17 year-long path of bondage full of thorns" (Leopold Figl, 15 May 1955); 19: Still "Occupied" by Germany 1945-1955? Arguments, Concepts, and Strategies in the Austrian Struggle against a Crucial Dependence; 20: Soviet Plans and Policies for Austria's Transition to Socialism, 1945-1955; 21: Stalin and the Austrian Question 1; 6: Review Essays; 22: Borders in Recent Austrian Historiography; 23: Provenance Research as History: Reconstructed Collections and National Socialist Art Looting; 24: The Cold War and 1956 in Hungary; 7: Book Reviews; 25: Georg Rigele, Zwischen Monopol und Markt. EVN das Energie- und Infrastrukturunternehmen (Maria Enzersdorf: Selbstverlag der EVN AG, 2004); 26: Rupert Pichler, ed. , Innovationsmuster in der ö sterreichischen Wirtschaftsgeschichte. Wirtschaftliche Entwicklung, Unternehmen, Politik und Innovationsverhalten im 19. und 20. Jahrhundert (Innsbruck: Studienverlag, 2003); 27: Matti Bunzl, Symptoms of Modernity: Jews and Queers in Late Twentieth-Century Vienna (Berkeley: Univ. of California Press, 2004); 28: Margareth Lun, NS-Herrschaft in Siidtirol Die Operationszone Alpenvorland 1943-1945 (Innsbrucker Forschungen zur Zeitgeschichte 15) (Innsbruck: Studienyerlag, 2004); 29: James Jay Carafano, Waltzing into the Cold War. The Struggle of Occupied Austria (College Station: Texas A&M University Press, 2002); 30: Heinz P. Wassermann, Verfä lschte Geschichte im Unterricht. Nationalsozialismus und Ö sterreich nach 1945 (Vienna: StudienVerlag, 2004); 8: Annual Review; 31: Austria 2004; 32: List of Authors