Osnove i prostorne dimenzije austrijske vanjske politike
Foundations of Austrian Foreign Policy

Summary/Abstract: Austrian foreign policy is determined by four basic factors: (a) by the State Treaty of 1955, which restores full sovereignty to Austria, but also contains some provisions that bear upon its foreign policy after 1955; (b) the adoption of the status of permanent neutrality on the Swiss model, which also implies the observance of certain obligations within international law applying to war and peacetime conditions; (c) affiliation to the group of Western pluralistic democracies, which, despite permanent neutrality, does not signify 'ideological abstinence’ ; (d) global solidarity in international relations, specifically with the economically underprivileged 'third-world' countries. The chief effects of these four fundamental orientations can be reduced to four geographical correlations: (a) policies In relation to neighbours, including Yugoslavia; (b) the West European dimension of Austrian foreign policy; (c) European relations as a whole, and especially East-West relations; (d) world relations, including North-South relations.

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