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Name: Anna-Mart van Wyk
Location: B Ring 234 Auckland Park Kingsway Campus
DPIR Professors, Department of Politics and International Relations Staff听 Staff Members
Contact Details:
Tel: 011 559 2887
Email:听annamartvw@uj.ac.za
About Prof Anna-Mart van Wyk
Anna-Mart van Wyk is Professor of International Relations. Her doctoral thesis investigated the implementation of the 1977 United States arms embargo against South Africa and its impact on US-South African relations, until 1997. She subsequently went on to specialise in South Africa鈥檚 nuclear history and policies. Her multi-national archival research has been presented internationally, and published in numerous international publications (see听). She is听a听former Public Policy Scholar of the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars and听a collaborator in various international research projects, including the Nuclear Proliferation International History Project (NPIHP); the Consortium on Rewriting the History of the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty; and Global Histories of Peace and Anti-Nuclear Activism. Several book chapters and articles related to these projects are set to be published in 2024/25.
Prof Van Wyk teaches courses related to international conflict, strategic studies, and arms control and disarmament, and is a regular invited speaker on nuclear- or arms control-related ‘summer/winter schools’. She has successfully supervised almost fifty Honours, Master’s and PhD students in a wide range of topics related (but not limited) to international relations, arms control, disarmament, weapons of mass destruction, nuclear (history, weapons, energy, policies, strategies, diplomacy, etc), 4IR-related topics (AI, cybersecurity, cyberterrorism, etc).
Forthcoming publications:
‘The ANC and Apartheid South Africa’s Nuclear Weapons Program,’ with Jo-Ansie van Wyk, in听The Thinker听(3, 2024).
鈥楢bdul Samad Minty and the World Campaign against Military and Nuclear Collaboration with South Africa鈥�, in L. Brunet and E. Karamouzi (eds.),听Global Histories of Anti-Nuclear and Peace Activism in the Late Cold War.
鈥楽outh Africa鈥檚 Nuclear Weapons Program鈥�, in L. Nuti and C. Ostermann (eds.),听Cambridge History of the Nuclear Age, Vol. 1.
鈥榃racked with Doubt: South Africa鈥檚 Position on the NPT, 1967-1968鈥�.听Cold War History,听as part of a special edition on the Constitutional History of the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty.