Bruno Kreisky’s Foreign Policy

An enlightening and geographically wide-ranging reappraisal of the life and legacy of the Austrian politician, Bruno Kreisky, this volume seeks to reinstate Kreisky’s centrality to Cold War history and Austria’s postwar recovery, highlighting how profoundly he reshaped the modern, geopolitical landscape.

Günter Bischof is Professor Emeritus at the University of New Orleans. Formerly the Marshall Plan Chair of History and the Director of Center Austria, he is a historian of international history, focusing on American and European diplomatic history of the twentieth century, including Cold War international relations and Austrian foreign policy. He is co-editor of the yearbook Contemporary Austrian Studies (which currently totals thirty-three volumes) and is the author of Relationships/Beziehungsgeschichten: Austria and the United States in the Twentieth Century (Studienverlag 2014), and with Hans Petschar, The Marshall Plan Since 1947: Saving Europe, Rebuilding Austria (Brandstätter 2017).

Michael Burri is a Lecturer in the department of Film and Media Arts at Temple University in Philadelphia. He is the editor of the Journal of Austrian-American History and the former President of the Austrian Studies Association. He is co-editor of the forthcoming Österreich-Studien im 21. Jahrhundert (Vienna University Press, 2025), and his research has appeared in the German Studies Review, Austrian History Yearbook, Journal of Austrian Studies, and New German Critique, among others.

Günter Bischof is Professor Emeritus at the University of New Orleans. Formerly the Marshall Plan Chair of History and the Director of Center Austria, he is a historian of international history, focusing on American and European diplomatic history of the twentieth century, including Cold War international relations and Austrian foreign policy. He is co-editor of the yearbook Contemporary Austrian Studies (which currently totals thirty-three volumes) and is the author of Relationships/Beziehungsgeschichten: Austria and the United States in the Twentieth Century (Studienverlag 2014), and with Hans Petschar, The Marshall Plan Since 1947: Saving Europe, Rebuilding Austria (Brandstätter 2017).

“This is – without question – an excellent book project that addresses a number of interesting, relevant, and timely questions concerning Austrian politician Bruno Kreisky as well as 20th century Austrian, European, and global history.” • Dirk Rupnow, University of Innsbruck

“[A] fascinating anthology that sheds light on a variety of different aspects of probably the most important Austrian politician of the second half of the 20th century, Bruno Kreisky.” • Martin Tschiggerl, Austrian Academy of Sciences