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

• Record Nr.: UNISA996210017903316
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Wien : , : Böhlau Verlag, , [2003]; ©2003
• ISBN: 9783205770756
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (494 pages) : illustrations; digital file(s)
• Disciplina: 327.43622
• Soggetti: Neutrality - Austria; Neutrality - Hungary; National characteristics, Austrian; National characteristics, Hungarian
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references.
• Nota di contenuto: 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.
• Sommario/riassunto: 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.