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Prof. Dr. Andreas Wenger

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Dep. of Humanities, Social and Pol.Sc.
Center for International and Comparative Studies Zurich
Switzerland

Biography

Andreas Wenger was born in 1964 and is a citizen of Thalwil, Zurich, Switzerland. He studied history, political science and german literature at the University of Zurich, where he received his M.A. in 1991. From 1992 to 1994 he was a visiting fellow at the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs and the Center of International Studies, Princeton University. During that period he wrote his doctoral dissertation analyzing the role of nuclear weapons in the Cold War international system. His main research interests are in security and strategic studies and the history of international relations. In the MACIS program, he teaches seminars on political violence and security politics. Andreas Wenger has published, inter alia, in Journal of Cold War Studies, Cold War History, Presidential Studies Quarterly, Vierteljahrshefte für Zeitgeschichte, Defense and Peace Economics and Osteuropa. He is author of Living with Peril: Eisenhower, Kennedy, and Nuclear Weapons (Rowman&Littlefield 1997), co-author of International Relations: From the Cold War to the Globalized World (Lynne Rienner 2003) and Conflict Prevention: The Untapped Potential of the Business Sector (Lynne Rienner 2003) and recently co-edited War Plans and Alliances in the Cold War: Threat Perceptions in the East and the West (Routledge 2006) and Transforming NATO in the Cold War: Challenges Beyond Deterrence in the 1960s (Routledge 2006). Andreas Wenger is the delegate for the Master of Advanced Studies in Security Policy and Crisis Management of the Department of Humanities, Social and Political Sciences at ETH Zurich  

Research Interest

World Politics Since 1945: The History of International Relations; World Politics Since 1945: The History of International Relations (Without Exercises) ; Current Issues in Security Policy ; BA Colloquium ; Political Violence ;Module 1: Mediation in Context

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