This is an examination of the progress that Croatia, the Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland, Slovakia and Slovenia have made in the process of transformation since the collapse of the Soviet bloc. Looking at issues such as democratization, the transition to a market economy and the new orientations in foreign policy, this book provides a report of th

This is an examination of the progress that Croatia, the Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland, Slovakia and Slovenia have made in the process of transformation since the collapse of the Soviet bloc. Looking at issues such as democratization, the transition to a market economy and the new orientations in foreign policy, this book provides a report of th

During the 1970s, the editors supported the founding of research in this area at the University of Minnesota in Minneapolis and the Austrian chair at Stanford University in California. Their tasks are to promote Austrian and Central European studies among professors and students of their host nation. This anthology contains not only a description of the institution's activities in the academic year 2008/2009, but also the working papers of ten of their present PhD students. Their research covers a period from the nineteenth century to the present.

Arnold Suppan is a professor at the University of Vienna, Institute for Eastern European History.

Richard Lein is a university assistant at the University of Vienna, Institute for Eastern European History.

The Centers for Austrian Studies, founded by the Austrian Federal Ministry for Science and Research since the 1970s, play an important role for the Austrian as well as the international scientific community. Their tasks are to promote studies on Austria and Central Europe in their host nations as well as to give Austrian students the possibility to conduct research abroad and to get in touch with the local scientific community. This volume contains reports on the activities of these Institutions in the academic year 2009/2010 and working papers of their most promising PhD students. The research presented in this volume covers various aspects of Central European history in Moderns Times, ranging from the sixteenth century to the present.

Kaum ein mitteleuropaischer Staatsmann des 20. Jahrhunderts ist so umstritten wie Edvard Benes. Die wiederaufgeflammte Diskussion um die beruchtigten "Benes-Dekrete" lassen eine umfassende Beschaftigung mit dessen politischem Wirken angebracht erscheinen. Dieser Band widmet sich aus verschiedenen Perspektiven der Aufarbeitung der tschechoslowakischen Aussenpolitik in der AEra des Aussenministers (1918-35) und Staatsprasidenten Benes (1935-48). Hiermit soll zu einer umfassenderen und objektiveren Neubewertung dieser fur Europa noch immer belasteten Epoche beigetragen werden.

Dieser Tagungsband untersucht "Das Bild vom Anderen" aus verschiedenen Perspektiven. Historiker, Ethnologen, Literatur- und Religionswissenschaftler setzen sich hierbei mit der Mentalitatsgeschichte multinationaler europaischer Regionen auseinander: Boehmen, Schlesien, die Slowakei, Ostgalizien, die Bukowina, Siebenburgen, die Vojvodina, Bosnien-Herzegowina, der Kosovo, die Alpen-Adria-Region, Tirol und die Schweiz sind in ihrer Komplexitat Gegenstand der Betrachtung.