Austrian Neutrality: Burden of History in the Making or Moral Good Rediscovered?
Austrian Neutrality: Burden of History in the Making or Moral Good Rediscovered?

Summary/Abstract: Since the late 1980s, when the importance of neutrality for Austrian politicians and officials significantly decreased, mainstream scholarship on Austrian foreign policy has condemned neutrality to oblivion. Today, these scholars feel considerable disappointment when they confront the return of the idea of neutrality even among previously neutrality-sceptical politicians. The aim of this essay is (1) to show that the inability to comprehend this development is caused primarily by posing the wrong questions and (2) to suggest a different orientation of future research.

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