From left to right: Center Austria's Gertraud Griessner, Austrian Consul-General Martin Kraemer, Austrian Trade Representative, Chicago, Franz Roessler, and Professor Bobby Dupont.
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Ryan Jones prepares a fresh batch of crawfish
2006/07 Ministry of Science Fellow Sigrid Harrer meets a Louisiana mudbug
Ryan with gourmet catch
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Ms. Petra Rabitsch, an international relations officer from the University of Graz, visited Center Austria. The University of Graz has been exceptionally generous in their support of UNO students post-Katrina and we would like to extend our warmest Danke.
Pictured: Dr. Carl Drichta, Dean of Metropolitan College and Petra Rabitsch
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.
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