Sunday, August 7, 2011 at 03:08PM 
The Credible Defense Manqué of Cold War Austria:
Manfried Rauchensteiner (ed.), Zwischen den Blöcken: NATO, Warschauer Pakt und Österreich (Vienna: Böhlau 2010), 817 pages, ISBN: 978-3-205-78469-2.
Sunday, August 7, 2011 at 03:01PM 
Neville Wylie, Barbed Wire Diplomacy. Britain, Germany, and the Politics of Prisoners of War, 1939–1945. Oxford/New York/Auckland, Oxford University Press 2010. In Historische Zeitschrift Band 292 (2011).
Friday, May 13, 2011 at 09:54AM Der Wiener Gipfel 1961 - Kennedy - Chruschtschow.
Stefan Karner (Herausgeber), Manfred Wilke (Herausgeber), Barbara Stelzl-Marx (Herausgeber), Natalja Tomilina (Herausgeber), Alexander Tschubarjan (Herausgeber), Günter Bischof (Herausgeber), Viktor IScenko (Herausgeber), Michail ProzumenScikov (Herausgeber), Peter Ruggenthaler (Herausgeber), Gerhard Wettig (Herausgeber).
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Tuesday, May 3, 2011 at 10:19AM Kerstin von Lingen. “Abhörung und Anwerbung: Die ‘Sunrise-Gruppe’ im Fokus von CIC und CSDIC.” Journal for Intelligence, Propaganda and Security Studies 4:2 (2010): 7-19.
URL: http://www.h-net.org/~diplo/reviews/PDF/AR301.pdf
Review by Günter Bischof, CenterAustria, University of New Orleans.
Tuesday, May 3, 2011 at 10:17AM Der Gorbach-Besuch bei Kennedy im Mai 1962
Günter Bischof
Tuesday, April 26, 2011 at 10:17AM Diplomacy & Statecraft, 22:61–80, 2011
Copyright © Taylor & Francis Group, LLC
ISSN: 0959-2296 print/1557-301X online
DOI: 10.1080/09592296.2011.549737
Under Presidents Dwight Eisenhower and Lyndon Johnson, the United States refrained from intervening during the three major Cold War crises in the Soviet bloc in 1953, 1956, and 1968. The uprisings in the German Democratic Republic and Hungary came at a contentious stage of the Cold War. In 1968 East–West relations were again groping towards détente and, the Czechoslovak Communist Party unleashed an ambitious reform agenda under Alexander Dubcek.
On 20 August, a massive military invasion by Warsaw Pact forces squashed the reform spirit. All three challenges to Soviet control on the periphery of its Cold War empire followed power struggles in the Kremlin and intimations of a slackening of the reigns of control in Moscow. Eastern Europe was terra incognita for most Americans, and the United States had never pursued an active policy in Eastern Europe. All three crisis scenarios were overshadowed by crises in other parts of the world—part of larger arcs of crises the superpowers were confronting simultaneously.
The three crises also coincided, domestically, with intense presidential election politics. Washington ultimately respected the Yalta arrangements and tolerated the Soviet sphere of influence in Eastern Europe. Next to grudging respect for the Yalta outcomes, the ultimate spectre of mutual destruction in a nuclear war “compelled” the superpowers towards co-existence
and, ultimately, in 1989, the satellite states had to liberate
themselves.
Wednesday, December 15, 2010 at 01:02PM Interview on sensitive issue areas between the U.S. and Austria in the Austrian weekly "Profil"
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Sunday, December 12, 2010 at 07:24PM Missiles for the Fatherland: Peenemuende, National Socialism, and the V-2 Missile. By Michael B. Petersen. New York: Cambridge University Press. 2009. Pp. xii þ 276. Cloth $80.00. ISBN 978-0-521-88270-5.
The historiography of National Socialist Germany in the past few years has increasingly concentrated on the self-perception of the Germans (and Austrians) as victims rather than perpetrators. The Austrians after the war most notoriously portrayed themselves as “Hitler’s first victims” for two generations—a myth deconstructed after the election of Kurt Waldheim in 1986. More recently, German civilians were portrayed as victims of the brutal bombing campaign of the Western allies (W. G. Sebald and Joerg Friedrich); German civilians were seen as victims of Red Army expulsions from eastern Europe (Guenter Grass), German prisoners of war (POWs) as victims of the western allies in the infamous Rhine meadow camps (James Bacque), as well as millions of German POWs as victims of the Red Army (Frank Biess).
Sunday, December 12, 2010 at 07:05PM Campbell Craig, Sergey Radchenko. The Atomic Bomb and the Origins of the Cold War. New Haven Yale University Press, 2008. xxv + 201 pp. $27.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-300-11028-9.
Reviewed by Günter Bischof (CenterAustria, ED196, University of New Orleans) Published on H-HistGeog (December, 2010) Commissioned by Eva M. Stolberg.
The Nuclear Age: The Great Bomb and the Cold War
Do we need another book on the atomic bomb and the origins of the Cold War? After Tsuyoshi Hasegawa's brilliant _Racing the Enemy_ (2005) on the complex triangle of U.S.-Soviet-Japanese diplomacy prior to the dropping of the bombs over Japan, and Andrew Rotter's less persuasive _Hiroshima: The World's Bomb_ (2008) trying to explain the building and dropping of the atomic bombs as international history and not an exclusively American affair, is there still new wine available to be poured into old skins with unique vintages to be expected? For one, it is in the nature of the scholarly venture to rake over old evidence again and again by identifying new sources, asking questions from new methodological grandstands, or simply gaining wisdom from the benefit of hindsight. Historical events that wrought sea changes in the international arena inspire each new generation of scholars to rewrite history by identifying gaps in the old arguments and adding information from new sources.
Saturday, April 25, 2009 at 06:41AM Bernd Stöver. Der Kalte Krieg: Geschichte eines radikalen Zeitalters 1947-1991. Munich: C.H. Beck Verlag, 2007. 528 pp. EUR 24.90 (cloth), ISBN 978-3-406-55633-3.
A German Master Narrative of the Cold War
Later this year, the end of the Cold War will be twenty years in the past. While many of the principal documentary records up to the mid-1970s are becoming available in western archives, a growing body of records is now open from former communist archives too, even though Russian opening practices and accessibility rules are not as generous and consistent as in western archives. Given the both the growing distance in time of these events and the burgeoning archival record, we should not be surprised that the Cold War continues to attract enormous interest as a central historical epoch of the twentieth century and that historians are increasingly inclined to historicize it. A number of recent Cold War histories follow this trend.[1] In his new book, German historian Bernd Stöver presents a new interpretation that breaks into the predominant phalanx of Anglo-American Cold War historiography that has established the master narratives of the Cold War.
Thursday, August 14, 2008 at 04:15AM Günter Bischof in an one-hour radio interview with Austrian Broadcasting Corporation (ORF) Vorarlberg. In German language. Originally published at ORF Vorarlber's pages: http://vorarlberg.orf.at/magazin/klickpunkt/imlaendle/stories/250078/
Professor Günter Bischof zu Gast
Dr. Günter Bischof ist gebürtiger Mellauer und seit vielen Jahren Professor für Zeitgeschichte an der Universität von New Orleans. Dort leitet er auch das "Center Austria" das enge Verbindungen zur Uni Innsbruck unterhält und Österreich in der Region präsentiert. Als vor drei Jahren eine Flut im Gefolge des Hurrikans "Katrina" weite Teile der Stadt zerstörte, verließ auch Günter Bischof mit seiner Familie die Region:
Ans Wegziehen denkt er jedoch nicht
Von Mellau bis New Orleans - wie ging das überhaupt?
Günter Bischof zum Phänomen Obama
... und zu den vorzeitigen Neuwahlen in Österreich
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Monday, April 21, 2008 at 02:25PM *Vladislav Zubok: A Failed Empire. The Soviet Union in the Cold War from Stalin to Gorbachev, Chapel Hill, NC / London: University of North Carolina Press 2007, 488 S., 12 illus, ISBN 978-0-8078-3098-7, USD 39,95*
Rezensiert von:
Günter Bischof
Department of History, University of New Orleans
Der an der Temple University in Philadelphia lehrende Vladislav M. Zubok hat zusammen mit Constantine Pleshakov bereits 1996 mit dem Buch /Inside the Kremlin's Cold War/ Furore gemacht und die "Kalter-Krieg-Forschung"
gründlich aufgewühlt. [1] Auf der Grundlage unzähliger Akten aus sowjetischen Archiven, Zeitzeugenbefragungen und profunder Kenntnisse nicht nur der russischen, sondern auch der westlichen Sekundärliteratur prägten die beiden russischen Historiker das Paradigma des /"revolutionären und imperialistischen"/ Charakters von Josef Stalins und Nikita Chruschtschows expansiver Außenpolitik. Wie vor ihnen bereits Vojtech Mastny [2], brachten die beiden Historiker die zentrale Bedeutung der Ideologie für die Kremlherren wieder in den Mittelpunkt historischer Betrachtung zum Sowjetreich zurück.
Wednesday, August 22, 2007 at 01:59PM Paper for Panel “New Forms of Public Diplomacy”
Politische Gespräche, Europäisches Forum Alpbach, 26. – 29. August, 2007
Günter Bischof
Chair and Marshall Plan Professor of History and Director, CenterAustria, University of New Orleans
In order to assess new forms of U.S. public diplomacy, one needs to know whether the old public diplomacy worked and how it was practiced. My argument here is that American Cold War “people to people” networking was probably the most successful part of the U.S. public diplomacy posture. The American style of public/private partnerships was unique – some argue it even helped bring down the iron curtain in 1989. After the Cold War ended, the U.S. took a turn towards isolationism and privileging economic over public diplomacy. Only after the 9/11 disaster and Bush’s unleashing of preemptive war in Iraq, which brought about a precipitous decline of American prestige in the world and an upsurge of anti-Americanism, did the Bush White House rediscover the necessity of public diplomacy. The public diplomacy strategy fashioned by Karen Hughes, seems to be harkening back to Cold War models of state/private networks, citizen diplomacy, buttered up by “virtual diplomacy” utilizing the new digital media.
>>> Click here to download the entire paper as a Word document
Wednesday, June 13, 2007 at 10:37AM “Am Rand der Weltgeschichte? Osttirol und die Welt,” in: Museum der Stadt Lienz Schloss Bruck, ed., /Spurensuche 3: Randlange im Wandel: Osttirol – 1850 bis zur Gegenwart/ (Innsbruck: StudienVerlag, 2007), pp. 20-29.
Thursday, May 10, 2007 at 10:50AM Towards A Life of Arnold
The usual paradigm in which the history of Austrian immigrants to the United States has been narrated is one of "the quiet invaders."[1] There is nothing quiet or bashful about Arnold Schwarzenegger, the body builder turned actor and Hollywood icon turned politico. He has been an in-your-face superstar producing serial blockbuster movies. With this image of his global star power, much of which he has very consciously cultivated, a political career was launched that brought him to Sacramento and the governorship of California in 2003. As the governor of a state comprised of almost 40 million residents (illegal immigrants included), and with aneconomy that is the sixth strongest in the world, he has perforce become a major player in the American political arena. Ever since he listened with the help of a translator to the Nixon vs. Johnson presidential race in 1968, when he first entered the United States, he has called himself a Republican.
Wednesday, May 9, 2007 at 04:46PM Günter Bischof, University of New Orleans
Paper for presentation at the Norwegian Nobel Institute, Oslo, on May 15, 2007
“Occupation is not a science but a deep art that can only be learned through
experience.”
This essay briefly assesses the historiography on the post-World War II quadripartite occupation of Austria. I first speculate why in recent analyses of historical case studies of the United States as an occupation power, as well as in U.S. “nation building” efforts, the case study of the highly successful American occupation regime in postwar Austria is blithely ignored. Secondly, I run through the cycles of preoccupation in contemporary history research with the Austrian occupation and note that the highpoint of occupation studies came with a cohort of Austrian “baby boomers” mining the newly opened Western archival holdings in the 1980s. Occupation studies—as has much of the scholarly engagement with political and diplomatic history--have largely fallen by the wayside as a priority in recent gender- and cultural studies driven Austrian contemporary history research. Finally, some tentative suggestions are made about what we can learn from the occupation of postwar Austria for the current occupation challenges in Iraq after the transition from war to peace in the building of a stable political and economic nation.
Thursday, March 8, 2007 at 10:20AM Günter Bischof
Contemporary Austrian Studies
Introduction: A Surfeit of Memory?
The year 2005 produced a memory blitz in Austria of unprecedented proportions. The major commemorations celebrated were the fiftieth anniversary of the Austrian State Treaty and the end of the four-power occupation, the sixtieth anniversary of the end of World War II and the reestablishment of an independent republic, and the tenth anniversary of the Austrian accession to the European Union. A cornucopia of additional anniversaries were thrown into the hopper of the big year of commemorations: Bertha von Suttner’s Peace Nobel Prize 100 years ago, the Allied liberation sixty years ago, the establishment of the Austrian Army, the reopening of the State Opera and the national theater (the Burgtheater), and the beginning of Austrian state television, as well as the conclusion of the Austrian neutrality law and membership in the United Nations fifty years ago, and the less “round” anniversary of the beginning of Austrian soldiers serving in UN missions forty-five years ago. In the age-old tradition of Josephinian state paternalism, the federal chancellery gave marching orders to make 2005 not only a memory year (Gedenkjahr), but also a year of thoughtful reflection (Gedankenjahr).
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