Dieter K. Buse has authored or edited numerous studies, Modern Germany: An Encyclopedia won Best Reference Work 1998 and The Regions of Germany received a dozen positive reviews. He has also written or edited works about local history based on the motto "Dig where you stand." Among those are Hard Lessons and Whose National Security?. The co-authored guide, Come on Over: North- eastern Ontario A-Z, won the Louise de Keriline Lawrence prize for non-fiction.