English summary: How have relations and interactions between the City of Vienna and the Viennese universities developed since 1945? What structures existed and what structures were created in this respect? And what about study conditions, the influence of the universities on the city culture, the urban climate for science and research funding? Such questions are documented and analysed in this volume on the basis of interviews with and contributions by actors from science, research and politics. In this way a picture emerges in which empirical facts and subjective perceptions complement each...

English summary: Austria's international position in the Cold War is eversince a subject to controversial debates. This volume presents the current state of research and highlights existing desiderata. The various chapters on recent questions of Cold War History - all of them written by young historians - are well embedded into current international debates. The volume delivers new insights into the relatively well researched occupation period (1945-55), provides articles adressing international perceptions of neutral Austria, and, moreover, it offers fresh studies on the Austrian Cold War...