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ZusammenfassungDie österreichische Außenpolitik gegenüber den Vereinigten Staaten ist gekennzeichnet durch das Verhältnis eines Kleinstaates zur hegemonialen Supermacht. Das Verhältnis zur Mittelmacht Kanada findet hingegen eher auf Augenhöhe statt. Zwar sind die Beziehungen zu den USA durchwegs gut, jedoch hat die Relevanz Österreichs für die USA stetig abgenommen. In den Beziehungen zu Kanada gibt es wichtige Schnittmengen, vor allem im Bereich des Engagements in internationalen Institutionen, jedoch ebenfalls Spannungspunkte.

Corporatism was unpopular in the Europe of the past decade. During a time of neo-conservative resurgence in both the United States and the United Kingdom, macroeconomic steering and statist centralism and regulation were in disfavor. However, Austria's unique Sozialpartnerschaft, its famed system of tripartite informal and formal labor, business, and state cooperation, continued to prosper in spite of such powerful Anglo-American trends. Austro-Corporatism is the fourth volume in the interdisciplinary Contemporary Austrian Studies series. This effort in particular reflects the uniqueness of Austrian corporatism, and looks at its deep historical roots from a comparative continental European perspective. The contributors include specialists on Austria from all parts of the world, making this a truly international effort. Andrei Markovits provides the larger European context for this analysis of Austrian corporatism. Emmerich Talos and Bernhard Kittel review the historical development of Austrian corporatism, going back to its nineteenth-century roots. Randall Kindley studies the institutional framework of Austrian corporatism, particularly its post-World War II reincarnation. Hans Seidel looks at the subject from a neo-Keynesian economic perspective, and Ferdinand Karlhofer at the chances of its survival in a changing international environment. Jonathan Petropoulos presents a fascinating biographical study of Nazi art plunderer Kajetan Muhlmann, and David McIntosh compares Eisenhower's policy vis-a-vis the small friendly countries of Lebanon, Costa Rica, and Austria. A special forum looks at the model character and appeal of tripartite Austrian cooperation among its new eastern democratic neighbors: the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Hungary, and Slovenia. A number of reviews of Austrian politics in 1994 complete the volume. Austro-Corporatism will be of intense interest to foreign policy analysts, historians, and scholars concerned with the unique elements in Central European politics.

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Gunter Bischof’s chapter sketches the making of Sun Valley, Idaho, as the first American winter destination and the role Austrian consultants and ski instructors played in the development of Sun Valley. Bischof suggests that the role of the Austrian ski instructors (mostly from the Tyrol region) was essential not only in the making of Sun Valley, but also in the building of the 10th Mountain Division during World War II and the diffusion of skiing and winter resort construction after the war. As well as examining primary sources, such as the Harriman Papers at the Library of Congress and the Friedl Pfeiffer Papers at the Denver Public Library, Bischof builds on recent published and unpublished work on the establishment of skiing and winter destinations in tourism.