Bruno Kreisky’s Foreign Policy

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).

“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

• List of IllustrationsAcknowledgmentsPart I: IntroductionsIntroductionGünter Bischof and Michael BurriChapter 1. Bruno Kreisky and His TimesOliver RathkolbPart II: Kreisky and the United StatesChapter 2. The Sun King and the Intellectual: Heinrich Drimmel, Kreisky, and the United StatesMichael BurriChapter 3. The International Media Coverage of Kreisky’s Visits to the United States of AmericaChristoph BeitlPart III: Foreign PolicyChapter 4. Kreisky and Austrian NeutralityPaul LuifChapter 5. Bruno Kreisky, the Marshall Plan, and the Cancun Summit in October 1981Günter BischofChapter 6. Kreisky, His Jewish Identity, and IsraelDaniel AschheimChapter 7. Austrian Neutrality, Détente, and Kreisky’s Involvement in the Arab-Israeli Conflict Steven VerburgChapter 8. Kreisky, the Soviet Union, and the Road to HelsinkiAnna Graf-SteinerPart IV: Domestic PolicyChapter 9. BrunoKreisky and the Socialist PartyMatthew P. BergChapter 10. The Kreisky Era in Environmental Terms: On the Social Ecology of the Austrian 1970sMartin Schmid Part V: Kreisky and the Austrian Bicentennial Gift to the University of Minnesota-Twin CitiesChapter 11. Austria’s Bicentennial Gift to the United States in 1976: Bruno Kreisky, the Fulbright Program, and the Establishment of the Center for Austrian Studies at the University of MinnesotaLonnie R. JohnsonAfterwordGünter Bischof and Michael BurriIndex