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The book under review chronicles the early history of the Fulbright program in Austria, with a special focus on the formation of a transatlantic educational network and its impact on the Austrian system of higher education. A young Viennese political scientist, Thomas König, tells the story of the battle for the hearts and minds of the Austrian post-war academic elite. His inquiry has a dual thrust: It provides an important chapter on American cultural diplomacy in the early Cold War, and secondly, it offers a robust critique of the post-war history of Austrian higher education and its intrigue-ridden academic politics.
The book helps to understand the political choreography of the postwar period. During the Korean War the battle lines of the larger East-West conflict had hardened considerably; the Cold War became hotter, and as a consequence, the western occupying forces began the militarization of the occupation zones — a clear signal of the American determination to prevent Austri...
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OSTENDORF, Berndt. Thomas König. Die Frühgeschichte des Fulbright Program in Österreich: Transatlantische "Fühlungnahme auf dem Gebiet der Erziehung" (Transatlantica 6): Innsbruck: StudienVerlag. 2012 In: Austria's International Position after the End of the Cold War [online]. Innsbruck: innsbruck university press, 2013 (generated 29 mars 2024). Available on the Internet: <http://books.openedition.org/iup/314?mobile=1>. ISBN: 978-3-903122-36-9.
Ostendorf, B. 2013. Thomas König. Die Frühgeschichte des Fulbright Program in Österreich: Transatlantische "Fühlungnahme auf dem Gebiet der Erziehung" (Transatlantica 6): Innsbruck: StudienVerlag. 2012. In Bischof, G., & Karlhofer, F. (Eds.), Austria's International Position after the End of the Cold War. innsbruck university press. Retrieved from http://books.openedition.org/iup/314?mobile=1
Ostendorf, Berndt. “Thomas König. Die Frühgeschichte des Fulbright Program in Österreich: Transatlantische "Fühlungnahme auf dem Gebiet der Erziehung" (Transatlantica 6): Innsbruck: StudienVerlag. 2012”. Bischof, Günter, and Ferdinand Karlhofer. Austria's International Position after the End of the Cold War. Innsbruck: innsbruck university press, 2013. (pp. 277-281) Web. <http://books.openedition.org/iup/314?mobile=1>.
BISCHOF, Günter (ed.) ; KARLHOFER, Ferdinand (ed.). Austria's International Position after the End of the Cold War. New edition [online]. Innsbruck: innsbruck university press, 2013 (generated 29 mars 2024). Available on the Internet: <http://books.openedition.org/iup/282?mobile=1>. ISBN: 978-3-903122-36-9.
Bischof, G., & Karlhofer, F. (Eds.) 2013. Austria's International Position after the End of the Cold War. innsbruck university press. Retrieved from http://books.openedition.org/iup/282?mobile=1
Bischof, Günter, and Ferdinand Karlhofer, ed. Austria's International Position after the End of the Cold War. Innsbruck: innsbruck university press, 2013. Web. <http://books.openedition.org/iup/282?mobile=1>.
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Austria's International Position after the End of the Cold War
Günter Bischof and Ferdinand Karlhofer (ed.)
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Thomas König. Die Frühgeschichte des Fulbright Program in Österreich: Transatlantische "Fühlungnahme auf dem Gebiet der Erziehung" (Transatlantica 6)