The Germanys and the Superpowers: A Return to Cold War?

Arthur M. Hanhardt, Jr., has had a longstanding interest in the politics of the German Democratic Republic (GDR) and is the author of The German Democratic Republic (Baltimore: John Hopkins Press, 1968). He has contributed to several volumes on the politics of East Europe, most recently Communism in Eastern Europe, by T. Rakowska-Harmstone and Andrew Gyorgy, eds. (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1979). He visited East Germany in 1970, 1972 and 1974 and last visited West Germany in 1980.