(1985), president of the Institute of German American Relations (1995), and a member of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences (2004, 2010).
He was the author, co-author, or co-editor of nearly two dozen books and over six-hundred articles, essays, and reviews.
Entitled Hungary Through the Centuries: Studies in Honor of Professors Steven Béla Várdy and Agnes Huszár Várdy, this book was edited by Professor Richard P. Mulcahy of the University of Pittsburgh, with the collaboration of Drs.
[4] This book was introduced by one of his most distinguished former students, Air Force General Michael Hayden, former head of the National Security Agency and the CIA.
Várdy was involved in two major research projects dealing with the Soviet Gulag slave labor camps, and with the post-World War II political emigration from Hungary to the United States.