Bøger af Anton Pelinka

This work focuses on the Indian factors underlying its successful democracy by describing and analyzing the life of Subhas Chandra Bose, who competed with Nehru for the role of Gandhi's heir, and his impact on India before and after Independence.

Franz Vranitzky, the banker turned politician, was chancellor during the ten years (1986-96) when the world dramatically changed in the aftermath of the cold war

In 2005, Austria celebrated the sixtieth anniversary of its liberation from the Nazi regime and the fiftieth anniversary of the State Treaty that ended the occupation and returned full sovereignty to the country

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

In his pathbreaking book, Leadership, James MacGregor Burns defines a kind of leadership with an indistinguishable personal impact on society

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

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

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.

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.

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.

The Marshall Plan for reconsruction of post-World War II Europe helped to ensure the Austrian economic miracle of the 1950s. Despite this Austria seems to have forgotten this essentially American contribution. This text examines how the plan affected Austria, and how it is perceived today.

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.

This volume provides an overall assessment of ethnic diversity in central Europe in historical context and presents a critical assessment of the conflict in former Yugoslavia.