Wenger, Andreas

Biography

Andreas Wenger is Professor of International and Swiss Security Policy and Director of the Center for Security Studies (www.css.ethz.ch) at ETH Zurich (Swiss Federal Institute of Technology). He holds a doctoral degree from the University of Zurich and was a guest scholar at Princeton University (1992-94), Yale University (1998), the Woodrow Wilson Center (2000), and, recently, at the George Washington University (2005). His research team is part of the Center for Security Studies, which is integrated in the Center for Comparative and International Studies (CIS) at the ETH and University of Zurich. 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.

Research Interest

His main research interests are in security and strategic studies and the history of international relations.