Prof Anna-Mart van Wyk

Professor
Name: Anna-Mart van Wyk
Location: B Ring 234 Auckland Park Kingsway Campus
DPIR Professors, Department of Politics and International Relations Staff  Staff Members

Contact Details:
Tel: 011 559 2887

Email: 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’s nuclear history and policies. Her multi-national archival research has been presented internationally, and published in numerous international publications (see https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=395io6oAAAAJ&hl=en). She is a former Public Policy Scholar of the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars and 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 The Thinker (3, 2024).

‘Abdul Samad Minty and the World Campaign against Military and Nuclear Collaboration with South Africa’, in L. Brunet and E. Karamouzi (eds.), Global Histories of Anti-Nuclear and Peace Activism in the Late Cold War.

‘South Africa’s Nuclear Weapons Program’, in L. Nuti and C. Ostermann (eds.), Cambridge History of the Nuclear Age, Vol. 1.

‘Wracked with Doubt: South Africa’s Position on the NPT, 1967-1968’. Cold War History, as part of a special edition on the Constitutional History of the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty.