Gray, William GlennSchlemmer, Thomas2025-11-212025-11-212022https://open.ifz-muenchen.de/handle/repository/9309Secret services and international arms trade in the Cold War era are the crucial issues of the sixth volume of the German Yearbook of Contemporary History. In presenting a series of translated articles on statecraft and commercial policy in German-speaking Central Europe, the editors aim to acquaint readers with dilemmas that continue to overshadow German (and Austrian) engagement with the world. Historical research is not a perfect guide to the present, but there is a certain logic to the workings of the international system, and readers of this volume will be better equipped to discern that logic.261 Seitenen