Table des matières

Günter Bischof

Preface

The Twentieth Anniversary Issue

Introduction

Anton Pelinka

Introduction

Andreas Exenberger

Globalization and Austria: Past and Present

• Introduction
• Measuring Globalization?
• A More Detailed View into the Globalization Discourse
• What is Globalization Today and What was it in the Course of the Twentieth Century?
• Austria’s and Austrians’Role in Globalization
• Conclusion: How Global is Austria?

Topical essays

I. Austria and the World

Steven Beller

Fin de fin-de-siècle Vienna?

A Letter of Remembrance

Tim Kirk

Ideology and Politics in the State that Nobody Wanted: Austro-Marxism, Austrofascism, and the First Austrian Republic

• The Origins of Austro-Marxism
• Austro-Marxism and the Austrian Revolution
• Counter-Revolution and Fascism
• Austrian Ideologies and the Wider World

Hansjoerg Klausinger

The Austrian School of Economics and its Global Impact

• Being an Austrian Economist
• The Controversies of the 1930s
• The Postwar Mainstream and the Austrian Critique
• The Austrian Heritage and the Neoliberal Agenda
• Concluding Observations

Andreas Resch et Dieter Stiefel

Vienna: The Eventful History of a Financial Center

• The last Decades of the Habsburg Empire
• The Decline in the Interwar Years
• “Anschluss,” National Socialism and World War II
• The Reconstruction Period after 1945
• Development since the 1950s: Nationalbank and Stock Exchange
• Banks and Financial Institutions
• Privatizations and Mergers
• Internationalization

Eric Frey

Konferenzplatz Wien: Vienna as an International Conference Site

• The Birth of an International Role
• The Road to a United Nations Headquarters
• The Controversy of the Conference Center
• The End of the Mediator Role
• A Different Kind of Success Story

Alexander Smith

OMV: A Case Study of an Austrian Global Player

• The Internationalization of a National Oil Producer
• Expansion into East Central Europe
• Towards a Leading Position in Central, Eastern, and South-Eastern Europe
• OMV’s and Austria’s Role in European Energy Security
• OMV under Criticism
• Concluding Remarks

II. The World and Austria

Rainer Münz

Austria and its Migrants

• Habsburg Monarchy, Interwar Period, and World War II
• Migration and Mobility Pattern since 1945
• Four Successive Waves of Migration
• Naturalization since 1945
• Recent Migration Flows
• Austria’s Migrant Population
• Education
• Employment
• Conclusions and Outlook

Emil Brix

Austria and Central Europe

• History of the Notion “Mitteleuropa”
• The Cultural Debates of the 1980s
• Changes of Cultural Contents or Perceptions?
• Issues and Interests: Central Europe after 2000

Fritz Plasser et Gilg Seeber

The Europeanization of Austrian Political Culture: Austrian Exceptionalism Revisited

• 1. Political Involvement—Revisited
• 2. Political Trust—Revisited
• 3. Support for Democracy
• 4. Euroskepticism in Austria

Sonja Puntscher Riekmann

Austria’s Dismal EU Membership: From Enthusiasm to Ambivalence

• Introduction
• Austria’s Struggle for EU Membership
• Enthusiasm and Disappointment
• Treaty Ratification in the Light of Negative Referenda in France, the Netherlands, and Ireland
• Conclusions

Forum: The Globalization of Austrian Studies

Günter Bischof

Introduction

Julie Thorpe

Austrian Studies in Australia

Questionnaire: “The Globalization of Austrian Studies”

Gary B. Cohen

Austrian Studies in the United States

Peter Pulzer

Austrian Studies in the United Kingdom

Jacques Le Rider

Austrian Studies in France

Ke-chin Hsia et Fei-Hsien Wang

Austrian Studies with Chinese Characteristics? Some Observations

Atsushi Otsuru

The State of Austrian/Habsburg Historical Studies in Japan

• The Foundation of Studies of Western History in Japan: An Absence of Austria
• Japanese Historiography after World War II: The Introduction of Austrian History to Japan
• Scholarly Works Published in Recent Years
• Japanese Habsburg and Austrian Studies in the Future

Book reviews

David S. Luft

William M. Johnston, Der österreichische Mensch: Kulturgeschichte der Eigenart Österreichs

Vienna: Böhlau, 2010

Peter Berger

John W. Boyer, Karl Lueger (1844-1910): Christlichsoziale Politik als Beruf: Eine Biografie

Vienna: Böhlau, 2010

Thomas R. Grischany

Peter Ruggenthaler and Walter M. Iber, eds., Hitlers Sklaven—“Stalins Verräter”: Aspekte der Repression an Zwangsarbeitern und Kriegsgefangenen: Eine Zwischenbilanz

Innsbruck: Studienverlag, 2010

James J. Weingartner

Claudia Kuretsidis-Haider and Winfried R. Garscha, eds., Gerechtigkeit nach Diktatur und Krieg: Transitional Justice 1945 bis heute: Strafverfahren und ihre Quellen

Graz: CLIO, 2010

Alexander Smith

Walter M. Iber, Die Sowjetische Mineralölverwaltung in Österreich: Zur Vorgeschichte der OMV 1945-1955

Innsbruck: Studienverlag, 2011

Michael Cotey Morgan

Thomas Fischer, Neutral Power in the CSCE: The N+N States and the Making of the Helsinki Accords 1975

Baden-Baden: Nomos, 2009

Manfred Kohler

David Tréfás and Jens Lucht, eds., Europe on Trial: Shortcomings of the EU with Regard to Democracy, Public Sphere, and Identity (Innsbruck: Studienverlag, 2010)

Gertraud Diendorfer and Heidemarie Uhl, eds., Europäische Bilderwelten: Visuelle Darstellungen EU-Europas aus österreichischer Perspektive (Innsbruck: Studienverlag, 2009)

Annual review

Reinhold Gärtner

Austria 2010

• Presidential Elections
• Elections in Burgenland, Styria, and Vienna
• A-Tec Insolvency
• Johanna Dohnal (1939-2010)
• Christoph Waltz and Michael Haneke
• Economic and Statistical Data

List of authors