Austria 1945-95 : fifty years of the Second Republic / edited by Kurt Richard Luther and Peter Pulzer.

Papers delivered at the conference on the Second Austrian Republic, held in June 1995 at the London School of Economics.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

The origins of the Second Republic : a retrospective view / Erika Weinzierl -- The Renner state government and Austrian sovereignty / Robert Knight -- Austrian identity in a schizophrenic age : Hilde Spiel and the literary politics of exile and reintegration / Edward Timms -- Superpower perceptions of Austrian neutrality post-1955 / Oliver Rathkolb -- The development of Austrian national identity / Ernst Bruckmüller -- Austrian political culture : from subject to participant orientation / Anton Pelinka -- From accommodation to competition : the "normalization" of the Second Republic's party system? / Kurt Richard Luther -- Austrian foreign policy from the State Treaty to European Union membership (1955-95) / Helmut Kramer -- Austria and its immediate neighbours : Hungary / Lázló J. Kiss -- Austria's new neighbours : the Slovenian perspective / Walter Lukan -- Austria in search of its place in a changing world : from between the blocs to full Western integration? / Hanspeter Neuhold -- Between collectivism and liberalism : the political evolution of Austria since 1945 / Peter Pulzer.