Global Vienna Vienna: global

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Global Vienna Vienna global?

• Andrea Komlosy
• Gerhard Strohmeier

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Vienna Capital of Austria

• ? Vienna Important part of Austrian history for
  a long time
• Changing manifestations of Austria
• Roman Limes Provinces (1-5th c. AC)
• Frontier Province (Mark) (803-1156), 996
  Ostarrichi
• Duchy (1156) state sovereignty
• Regnum (1192-1699)
• World Empire (1516-1556)
• Continental Empire (1699-1918)
• Republic (1918-38, 1945ff)
• ? Often part of larger political units Holy
  Roman Empire, German Confederation, Greater
  Germany, European Union

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Conceptualizing Austria

• 1st There is no natural geographical territory,
  defined Austrian.
• 2nd Our perception starts from the territory of
  today's Austrian state ( Republic of Austria)
• 3rd In history the Austrian state had different
  territories with changing boundaries, as well as
  in the history of the other successor states.
• 4th There is no Austrian people in an ethnic
  sense Austrian people are the people that belong
  to the respective state ) subjects of the Duke,
  Archduke, King, Emperor or whatever ) citizens
  of the Empire, Republic. The Austrian population
  consists of various ethnic groups (peoples),
  which form the nation.
• ? Political nation Austrian
• ? Ethnic nation / peoples German, Czech, Magyar,
  Croat,

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A global perspective ?

• How do Viennese relate to and interact with the
  world? (a node in a network, centre of Europe, )
• Viennese impacts on the world
• International/global impacts on Vienna
• Vienna A Global City?
• global history?
• Historical developments rooted and driven by
  inter-actions between actors from several
  world-regions how do they impact
  local/regional/national developments, where and
  how do they meet/inter-mingle with specific
  domestic factors?

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How shall we conceive global?

• ? Multi-layered understanding of relations across
  Austrian borders (changing in quality, quantity,
  significance, intensity, distance, and direction)

regional Neighbour states and Individuals and
groups regions continental Other European
states Political, cultural, economic transcontin
ental Non-European states institutional
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Inter-national or inter-regional?

• Shall we include inter-regional relations into a
  global perspective?
• e.g. Core-periphery relations, inter-ethnic
  relations in Austria?

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Vienna a stage for global history

• How do Capitals relations differ from
  inter-state relations? Are they representative
  for the country, or are they specific, condensed,
  exceptional and untypical?
• Approaches
• a) Viennese history seen through interactions
  with other parts of the world
• b) Viennese history as a reflection and
  expression of global history in the capital,
  respectively in Austria (Mark, Duchy, Empire,
  Republic)

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A Global over-strech?

• If almost everything has global impacts, how to
  avoid global overstretch?
• Emphasizing on
• a) Influences, transfers, encounters and
  conflicts
• b) Integration and disintegration, association -
  dissociation, dominance - hegemony dependency,
  that characterize all inter-relations.

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Specific themes for a global history of Vienna

• Diplomacy, international relations
• International organizations, conferences
• Cultural transfers -gt lt
• Church and City
• Urban autonomy versus central state influence
• Economic relations
• Viennas role in the global economy
• Migrations -gt lt-
• Asylum and expulsion
• Self-perception and representation

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Specific regions for a global history of Vienna

• Western Europe
• Eastern and south eastern Europe
• Ottoman Empire and Balkans
• Austrian German relationship
• Relations with the successor states of the HM
• East-west relations and Neutrality

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Vienna A Global City?

• Global Cities geographic term by Saskia Sassen
  (Mega-Cities, World Cities)
• important node in global economic system
• Sassen some 45 cities in the world
• Is Vienna a global city?

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Global Cities

• Some characteristics
• Active influence in international politics and
  world affairs
• Fairly large population
• Multicultural population
• Cultural importance (Media, Arts)
• Important financial institutions, corporate
  headquarters
• Important traffic node