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During the Cold War, Sweden actively cultivated a reputation as the \"conscience of the world,\" working to build bridges between East and West and embracing a nominal commitment to international solidarity. This groundbreaking study explores the tension between realism and idealism in Swedish diplomacy during a key episode in Cold War history-the Conference on Security and Cooperation in Europe, culminating in the 1975 Helsinki Accords. Through careful analysis of new evidence, it offers a compelling counternarrative of this period, showing that Sweden strategically ignored human rights violations in Eastern Europe and the nonaligned states in its pursuit of national interests

Against Massacre looks at the rise of humanitarian intervention in the nineteenth century, from the fall of Napoleon to the First World War. Examining the concept from a historical perspective, Davide Rodogno explores the understudied cases of European interventions and noninterventions in the Ottoman Empire and brings a new view to this international practice for the contemporary era.

This study shows that Austro-Hungarian policy toward the United States of America was in winter 1917 not primarily dictated by its German ally but by the sober evaluation of its own interests. The separate peace, which was offered by the Wilson administration, was not a realistic foreign-policy option for the Austro-Hungarian monarchy. Therefore, this article shows why Austria-Hungary did not accept US peace feelers. On the other hand, it also demonstrates that in the winter of 1917 Washington did not treat Germany and Austria-Hungary as equals, with the latter being in a better position. But the monarchy's acceptance of the German course in the submarine war strengthened the perception of the monarchy as an appendage of the stronger Germany in the United States, and finally caused great damage to its reputation across the Atlantic.

Williams highlights the 37th symposium of the International Committee for the History of Technology held on Aug 10-15, 2010 in in Tampere Finland. Among others, Gunter Dinhobl of Austria organized the papers on \"Railway Heritage\" that addressed railway lines, infrastructure, and rolling stock. He offered an overview of different approaches to the problem of using, reusing, and preserving railroad technology which, he argued, cannot be solved in one step, for using pieces of technical heritage means endangering them, if only by changing these artifacts by repairing and adapting them to new conditions, whereas preserving artifacts in a museum means preserving technology that has lost its function and is essentially dead. Other papers included development of a list of technical world heritage sites, discourses on criteria of what should be protected and in what way, and case studies of railway sites.