NATO, neutrality and national identity : the case of Austria and Hungary / András Kovács, Ruth Wodak (editors).

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Kovács, András, Dr., editor.

Wodak, Ruth, 1950- editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

North Atlantic Treaty Organization.

North Atlantic Treaty Organization--Austria.

North Atlantic Treaty Organization--Hungary.

Neutrality--Austria.

Neutrality.

Neutrality--Hungary.

National characteristics, Austrian.

National characteristics, Hungarian.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (494 pages): illustrations; digital file(s).

Other Title:

NATO, Neutrality and National Identity

Place of Publication:

Böhlau

Wien : Böhlau Verlag, [2003]

Language Note:

Text in English.

System Details:

text file

Summary:

When the cold war was over, a vehement discussion of the new alternatives in security policy started in almost all former Warsaw-Pact States and in the neutral and nonaligned nations, Austria and Hungary among the latter. These nations' entry into the NATO has been the pivotal question. These discussions were the subject of comparative research that was done in Hungary and Austria. The results are presented in the book "NATO, Neutrality and National Identity - the Case of Ausria and Hungary". The book does not focus on the manifold security problems that the concerned nations' joining of NATO would entail but deals with the discourses and debates on neutrality and NATO... The book analyzes the issues of creating identity by discussion both from a historical-sociological standpoint and from the angle of discourse analysis. The individual chapters deal with comparative studies of the change and upheaval in the national identities in Hungary and Austria. Although these specific analyses are intended to be case studies, they allow generalizations on all of central Europe. The individual corpora (opinion surveys, political speeches, focus groups, talk-shows, newspapers), having been selected so as to ensure comparability, are subjected to a comparative and interdisciplinary analysis and interpretation. Following the introduction - problems are defined from the standpoint of history and political science - the complex discourses from focus group discussions and the outcomes of opinion surveys are presented and analyzed, and newspapers, TV talk-shows and speeches held on days of remembrance are presented applying the methods of discourse analysis. Against this backdrop a comprehensive picture of the identity discourses develops. In the introduction and concluding remarks the two editors draw theoretical and methodical conclusions for interdisciplinary and comparative studies.

Contents:

Preface / Andras Kovács and Ruth Wodak

Austrian neutrality: historical development and semantic change / Karin Liebhart

Neutrality in the 1956 Hungarian revolution / Borbála Jubász

Nato membership and Hungarian domestic politics in the Nineties / Zsuzsanna Dákai

"From prices and prizes to outmoded things" neutrality and identity in the speeches of Austrian presents on the national holiday (26.10.) in the Second Republic / Gertraud Benke

"Austria owes its policy of neutrality ..." Neutrality in Austrian newspapers in the Second Republic / Gertraud Benke

Nation, Europe, NATO / Dénes Némedi

Public debate in Hungary on the NATO Alliance / Maria Heller and Agnes Rényi

"We are facing a new order in Europe": Neutrality versus NATO / Gertraud Benke, Ruth Wodak

Joining NATO: the analysis of a TV-Debate on Hungary's alliance / Maria Heller, Agnes Reyni

"Somehow emotionally

if we LOSE neutrality that makes me afraid" An analysis of focus group discussions on neutrality (1997) / Gertraud Benke

Hungary and Euro-Atlantic integration focus group research / Györgyi Bindorffer, István Siklaki

Neutrality and Austrian identity: discourse on NATO and neutrality as reflected in public opinion / Christoph Reinprecht, Rossalina Latcheva

NATO and Hungarian public opinion / András Kovács

Neutrality, NATO, and the world after the "Cold War" / Anton Pelinka.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

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Print version:

ISBN:

9783205770756

OCLC:

647909372