Condamnée à la neutralité perpétuelle ? La diplomatie autrichienne contrainte au repli

• Published in: Revue internationale et stratégique
• Main Author: Emmanuel Prokob
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: unknown
• Published: CAIRN 2010
• Subjects: Political Science and International Relations; scipo; hist; North Atlantic
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.3917/ris.061.0027; https://www.cairn.info/revue-internationale-et-strategique-2006-1-page-27.htm; https://academic.microsoft.com/#/detail/2031344916

Dix ans apres son adhesion a l'Union europeenne (UE), l'Autriche a perdu de son autonomie en politique etrangere. Au sein de l'Europe, elle est souvent isolee, alors que le soutien de l'opinion publique a l'UE est tres faible. Le pays a de reelles opportunites pour s'imposer comme « acteur actif » en approfondissant la cooperation multilaterale, surtout en matiere de securite et de defense. Mais l'attachement de la population a la neutralite militaire du pays et son opposition a l'Organisation du traite de l'Atlantique Nord (OTAN) bloquent ce type d'initiatives. Traversant une crise profonde de son modele societal, la societe civile s'accroche a la neutralite comme expression fondamentale de son identite nationale, assez recemment acquise dans l'apres-guerre. Ten years after its accession to the European Union (EU), Austria has lost its autonomy in foreign politics. Within Europe, it is often isoleic, while public support for the EU is weak. The country has good opportunities to become an “active player” by deepening multilateral cooperation, especially in terms of security and defence. But the attachment of the people to the country’s military neutralite and its opposition to the North Atlantic Trafficking Organisation (NATO) block such initiatives. Going through a deep crisis of its societal modele, civil society hits into neutralite as a fundamental expression of its national identity, which is quite refocused in the ap-war.