Books in the Contemporary Austrian Studies series

Covering foreign policy in the twentieth century, this study offers a status report of Austria's foreign policy trajectories and diplomatic options. It contains an analysis of the art and practice of Austrian diplomacy in historical perspective. It includes review essays, book reviews on art theft, anti-Semitism, and the Hungarian crisis of 1956.

How Western are the Austrians? This is an analysis of trends toward Americanization and Westernization in Austria throughout the 20th century. The essays seek to demonstrate that "Americanization", "Westernization" and "globalization" need to be defined before generalizations can be made.

Since it joined the European Union in 1995 Austria has has experienced dramatic reversals in how it is viewed by other members of the Union. This volume assesses Austria's first five years in the European Union and also its on going struggle with its past.

The years of Chancellors Dollfuss and Schuschnigg's authoritarian governments (1933-1938) have been denounced as "Austrofascism" by the left and defended as a Christian corporate state by the right. This title looks at economic, domestic and international politics.

Examines continuities and changing patterns of sexual behavior in Austria. This work surveys the number of sex counseling organizations in interwar Vienna, some driven by eugenics, others by social concerns. It also documents ties with Margaret Sanger's birth control movement in the US and is intended for historians, psychologists, and others.

Investigates the permanent changes of Austrian voting behavior over the past forty years and analyzes causes and consequences for party competition and the electoral process in Austria during the first decade of the 21st century. This work analyzes electoral strategies and the rise and fall of Austrian right wing populism from 1986 to 2006.

Analyzes Austrian soldiers who were active in resistance at the end of the World War II. This book summarizes POW treatment on the Eastern front. It deals with the increasingly difficult life on the Austrian homefront.

Franz Vranitsky was chancellor of Austria from 1986 to 1996, a time when the world dramatically changed in the aftermath of the Cold War. This text aims to assess Vranitsky's central role in 20th century Austrian and European history.

When the Hapsburg monarchy disintegrated after World War I, Austria was not considered to be a viable entity

The position of women in Austrian society, politics, and in the economy follows the familiar trajectory of Western societies

Political, economic, social, and cultural modernization dramatically transformed twentieth-century Austria

The years of Chancellors Dollfuss and Schuschnigg's authoritarian governments (1933/34-1938) have been denounced as "Austrofascism" from the left, or defended as a Christian corporate state ("Stondestaat") from the right

Scholars have increasingly been investigating human sexu- ality as an important field of social history in particular national cultures

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