In 2005, Austria celebrated the sixtieth anniversary of its
liberation from the Nazi regime and the fiftieth anniversary of the
State Treaty that ended the occupation and returned full
sovereignty to the country. This volume of Contemporary Austrian
Studies covers foreign policy in the twentieth century. It offers
an up-to-date status report of Austria's foreign policy
trajectories and diplomatic options.
Eva Nowotny, the current Austrian ambassador to the United
States, introduces the volume with an analysis of the art and
practice of Austrian diplomacy in historical perspective.
Ambassador Wolfgang Petritsch analyzes recent Balkans diplomacy as
an EU emissary in the Bosnian and Kosovo crises. Historians Gunther
Kronenbitter, Alexander Lassner, Gunter Bischof, Joanna Granville,
and Martin Kofler provide historical case studies of pre-and
post-World War I and World War II Austrian diplomacy, Austria's
dealings with the Hungarian crisis of 1956, and its mediation
between Kennedy and Khrushchev in the early 1960s. Political
scientists Romain Kirt, Stefan Mayer, and Gunther Hauser analyze
small states' foreign policymaking in a globalizing world, Austrian
federal states' separate regional policy initiatives abroad and
Austria's role vis-a-vis current European security initiatives.
Michael Gehler periodizes post-World War II Austrian foreign policy
regimes and provides a valuable summary of both the available
archival and printed diplomatic source collections. A
"Historiography Roundtable" is dedicated to the Austrian Occupation
decade. Gunter Bischof reports on the state of occupation
historiography; Oliver Rathkolb on the historical memory of the
occupation; Michael Gehler on the context of the German question;
and Wolfgang Mueller and Norman Naimark on Stalin's Cold War and
Soviet policies towards Austria during those years. Review essays
and book reviews on art theft, anti-Semitism, the Hungarian crisis
of 1956, among other topics, complete the volume.
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