Documents on Austrian Foreign Policy 1918-1938

The edition "Außenpolitische Dokumente der Republik Österreich 1918-1938 (ADÖ)", gives the reader detailed background information about Austrian foreign policy between the two World Wars. The aim of the series is to document the conduct of external policy, the political decisions and decision-making and the diplomatic activity of the First Austrian Republic. The collection of the most important sources should demonstrate as well the sometimes close connexion between foreign policy and domestic policy with all the economic, legal, social, cultural and military aspects and effects. Unlike the examination of the Austrian domestic policy during the inter-war period, an equivalent appraisal of foreign policy of the Viennese Ballhausplatz has been lacking in international historiography for a long time. We have known merely the few "big facts" of Austrian external relations. But there was actually only little documentation on foreign policy. So this new series should help the historian and the non-specialist reader to understand, value and analyse the composition of the structure of foreign policy making. ADÖ is edited by Arnold Suppan, Klaus Koch and Walter Rauscher at the Austrian Institute of East and Southeast European Studies, Vienna. The works have started in the summer of 1990. The series is intended to run to twelve volumes. In 1993 the first one was published by R. Oldenbourg. Five volumes have already followed. The edition publishes not merely sources of the Federal Chancellery and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. In addition to them it issues relevant material of other ministries, of the Cabinet, the Parliament and the most important political parties as far as foreign affairs are concerned. This method is doubtlessly one of the special features of the Austrian edition. In every volume the user finds treaties, drafts of treaties, international agreements, memoranda, directives, instructions, notes of meetings, dispatches, reports, telegrams, telephone dispatches and private papers. The volumes contain also protocols and records about the sessions of the national assembly. Last but not least the meetings of the Cabinet and of the most important parliamentary parties are published too.

The edition "Außenpolitische Dokumente der Republik Österreich 1918-1938 (ADÖ)", gives the reader detailed background information about Austrian foreign policy between the two World Wars. The aim of the series is to document the conduct of external policy, the political decisions and decision-making and the diplomatic activity of the First Austrian Republic. The collection of the most important sources should demonstrate as well the sometimes close connexion between foreign policy and domestic policy with all the economic, legal, social, cultural and military aspects and effects. Unlike the examination of the Austrian domestic policy during the inter-war period, an equivalent appraisal of foreign policy of the Viennese Ballhausplatz has been lacking in international historiography for a long time. We have known merely the few "big facts" of Austrian external relations. But there was actually only little documentation on foreign policy. So this new series should help the historian and the non-specialist reader to understand, value and analyse the composition of the structure of foreign policy making. ADÖ is edited by Arnold Suppan, Klaus Koch and Walter Rauscher at the Austrian Institute of East and Southeast European Studies, Vienna. The works have started in the summer of 1990. The series is intended to run to twelve volumes. In 1993 the first one was published by R. Oldenbourg. Five volumes have already followed. The edition publishes not merely sources of the Federal Chancellery and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. In addition to them it issues relevant material of other ministries, of the Cabinet, the Parliament and the most important political parties as far as foreign affairs are concerned. This method is doubtlessly one of the special features of the Austrian edition. In every volume the user finds treaties, drafts of treaties, international agreements, memoranda, directives, instructions, notes of meetings, dispatches, reports, telegrams, telephone dispatches and private papers. The volumes contain also protocols and records about the sessions of the national assembly. Last but not least the meetings of the Cabinet and of the most important parliamentary parties are published too.