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Bruno Kreisky’s Foreign Policy
A Reassessment
Edited by Günter Bischof and Michael Burri
242 pages, 11 ills., bibliog., index
ISBN 978-1-83695-100-1 $135.00/£104.00 / Hb / Published (August 2025)
eISBN 978-1-83695-101-8 eBook
Reviews
“This is – without question – an excellent book project that addresses a number of interesting, relevant, and timely questions concerning Austrian politician Bruno Kreisky as well as 20th century Austrian, European, and global history.” • Dirk Rupnow, University of Innsbruck
“[A] fascinating anthology that sheds light on a variety of different aspects of probably the most important Austrian politician of the second half of the 20th century, Bruno Kreisky.” • Martin Tschiggerl, Austrian Academy of Sciences
Description
Despite his significance, the role of Austrian politician Bruno Kreisky remains under-represented in Anglo-American Cold War scholarship. Serving as foreign minister from 1959 to 1966 and chancellor from 1970 to 1983, his political career oversaw seismic developments in both Austria’s postwar recovery and broader international relations with the Middle East, the Communist Bloc, and the United States. In this enlightening and geographically wide-ranging reappraisal of his life and legacy, Bruno Kreisky’s Foreign Policy: A Reassessment seeks to reinstate the global repercussions of Kreisky’s work. Ranging from his involvement in the Marshall Plan to his role in the Arab-Israeli conflict, this volume highlights how Kreisky profoundly reshaped the geopolitical landscape of the modern era.
Günter Bischof is Professor Emeritus at the University of New Orleans. Formerly the Marshall Plan Chair of History and the Director of Center Austria, he is a historian of international history, focusing on American and European diplomatic history of the twentieth century, including Cold War international relations and Austrian foreign policy. He is co-editor of the yearbook Contemporary Austrian Studies (which currently totals thirty-three volumes) and is the author of Relationships/Beziehungsgeschichten: Austria and the United States in the Twentieth Century (Studienverlag 2014), and with Hans Petschar, The Marshall Plan Since 1947: Saving Europe, Rebuilding Austria (Brandstätter 2017).
Michael Burri is a Lecturer in the department of Film and Media Arts at Temple University in Philadelphia. He is the editor of the Journal of Austrian-American History and the former President of the Austrian Studies Association. He is co-editor of the forthcoming Österreich-Studien im 21. Jahrhundert (Vienna University Press, 2025), and his research has appeared in the German Studies Review, Austrian History Yearbook, Journal of Austrian Studies, and New German Critique, among others.
Subject: History: 20th Century to PresentPeace and Conflict Studies
Area: Central/Eastern Europe
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