This interdisciplinary volume offers methodologically innovative approaches to Austria’s coping with issues of migration past and present. These essays show Austria’s long history as a migration country. Austrians themselves have…

These fourteen essays by leading Austrian historians and political scientists serve as a basic introduction to a small but sometimes trend-setting European country

After the breakup of the Habsburg Monarchy, the Austrian-American relationship was one of a dwarf confronting a giant.

The Marshall Plan is considered the most successful foreign aid program in American history. It played a crucial role in helping to rebuild Western Europe after World War II, reintegrate…

Dieser zweisprachige (Deutsch/Englisch) Band bietet eine wissenschaftliche Bestandsaufnahme zu Osterreichs EU-Mitgliedschaft seit 1995. Nach ersten Annaherungen werden verschiedene innenpolitische Perspektiven der Folgen des EU-Beitritts fur das Bildungssystem, fur Gesellschaft, Wirtschaft…

Franz Vranitzky, the banker turned politician, was chancellor during the ten years (1986-96) when the world dramatically changed in the aftermath of the cold war

After Stalin’s death, during a respite in Cold War tensions in 1955, Austria managed to rid itself of a quadripartite occupation regime and become a neutral state

At the beginning of June 1961, the tensions of the Cold War were supposed to abate as both sides sought a resolution. The two most important men in the world…