Marco Wyss

He is Professor of International History and Security at Lancaster University; a Research Fellow at the Department of Military History, Faculty of Military Science, Stellenbosch University; and a Senior Research Fellow at the Institute of Commonwealth Studies, School of Advanced Study, University of London. He previously held a range of positions at ETH Zurich, the Universities of Chichester, Lausanne, and the Free State, and the Leibniz Institute of European History in Mainz, and held visiting professorships at Sciences Po Lille and Sciences Po Aix. His research focuses on the Cold War, military assistance, postcolonial security in Africa, as well as security and defence in Africa and Europe. Marco gained his PhD in Politics and International Relations, as well as in History, from the Universities of Nottingham and Neuchâtel. He is the editor of the International Journal of Military History and Historiography and co-edits the book series ‘New Perspectives on the Cold War’ (Brill). He is, among others, the author of Arms Transfers, Neutrality and Britain’s Role in the Cold War (Brill, 2013) and co-editor of Peacekeeping in Africa: The Evolving Security Architecture (Routledge, 2014), Neutrality and Neutralism in the Global Cold War: Between or Within the Blocs? (Routledge, 2016), The Handbook of European Defence Policies and Armed Forces (Oxford University Press, 2018), Europe and China in the Cold War (Brill, 2018), and the Handbook of African Defence and Armed Forces (Oxford University Press, 2025). His latest single-authored book is Postcolonial Security: Britain, France, and West Africa’s Cold War (Oxford University Press, 2021).

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BOOKS

PUBLICATIONS

Wyss, M., & Kleynhans, E. (Eds.). (2025). Handbook of African Defence and Armed Forces. Oxford University Press.

Wyss, M. (2021). Postcolonial Security: Britain, France, and West Africa’s Cold War. Oxford University Press.

Schaufelbuehl, J.-M., Wyss, M., & Zanier, V. (Eds.). (2018). Europe and China in the Cold War: Exchanges Beyond the Bloc Logic and the Sino-Soviet Split. Brill.

Meijer, H., & Wyss, M. (Eds.). (2018). The Handbook of European Defence Policies and Armed Forces. Oxford University Press.

Bott, S., Hanhimäki, J. M., Schaufelbuehl, J.-M., & Wyss, M. (Eds.). (2016). Neutrality and Neutralism in the Global Cold War: Between or Within the Blocs? Routledge.

Tardy, T., & Wyss, M. (Eds.). (2014). Peacekeeping in Africa: The Evolving Security Architecture. Routledge.

Wyss, M. (2013). Arms Transfers, Neutrality and Britain’s Role in the Cold War: Anglo-Swiss Relations 1945-1958 (Vol. 79). Brill.

Wyss, M. (2010). Un suisse au service de la SS: Dr. Franz Riedweg (1907–2005). Editions Alphil–Presses universitaires suisses.

Chafer, T., Charbonneau, B., & Wyss, M. (Eds.). (2017). Whose “West Africa”? The Regional Dynamics of Peace and Security. Journal of Contemporary African Studies, 35(4).

Bott, S., Hanhimäki, J. M., Schaufelbuehl, J.-M., & Wyss, M. (Eds.). (2015). Suisse et Guerre froide dans le tiers-monde. Relations Internationales, (163).

Bott, S., Hanhimäki, J. M., Schaufelbuehl, J.-M., & Wyss, M. (Eds.). (2015). Beyond and Between the Cold War Blocs. The International History Review, 37(5).

Tardy, T., & Wyss, M. (Eds.). (2013). Alternative Perspectives on African Peacekeeping. Journal of International Peacekeeping, 17(3–4).

Wyss, M. (2024). Neo-Imperial Cold War? Biafra’s Franco-African Arms Triangle. The Journal of African History, 65(1), 47–65.

Wyss, M. (2023). The Nkrumah Factor: The Strategic Alignment of Early Postcolonial Côte d’Ivoire and Nigeria. The English Historical Review, 138(592), 591–619.

Wyss, M. (2023). The Diplomacy of Military Assistance: The Royal Navy Training Team and the Nigerian Civil War. Diplomacy & Statecraft, 34(3), 491–515.

Meijer, H., & Wyss, M. (2019). Upside Down: Reframing European Defence Studies. Cooperation and Conflict, 54(3), 378–406.

Wyss, M. (2018). The United States, Britain, and Military Assistance to Nigeria. The Historical Journal, 61(4), 1065–1087.

Wyss, M. (2018). The Challenge of Western Neutralism during the Cold War: Britain and the Build-up of a Nigerian Air Force. Journal of Cold War Studies, 20(2), 99–128.

Wyss, M. (2017). France and the Economic Community of West African States: Peacekeeping Partnership in Theory and Practice. Journal of Contemporary African Studies, 35(4), 487–505.

Wyss, M. (2016). A Post-Imperial Cold War Paradox: The Anglo-Nigerian Defence Agreement 1958–1962. The Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth History, 44(6), 976–1000.

Nilsson, M., & Wyss, M. (2016). The Armed Neutrality Paradox: Sweden and Switzerland in U.S. Cold War Armaments Policy. Journal of Contemporary History, 51(2), 335–363.

Schaufelbuehl, J.-M., Bott, S., & Wyss, M. (2015). Choosing Sides in the Global Cold War: Switzerland, Neutrality, and the Divided States of Korea and Vietnam. The International History Review, 37(5), 1014–1036.

Wyss, M. (2015). “A Considerable Windfall of Swiss Francs”: La politique d’armement britannique envers la Suisse au début de la Guerre froide. Revue Suisse d’Histoire, 65(2), 230–248.

Wyss, M. (2013). The Gendarme Stays in Africa: France’s Military Role in Côte d’Ivoire. African Conflict & Peacebuilding Review, 3(1), 81–111.

Wyss, M. (2013). The Advocate and Its Wealthy Client: Britain and Switzerland in the Emerging Cold War. The International History Review, 35(1), 184–204.

Wilner, A., & Wyss, M. (2012). The Next Generation Fighter Club: How Shifting Markets Will Shape Canada’s F-35 Debate. Canadian Military Journal / Revue militaire canadienne, 12(2), 18–27.

Wyss, M. (2012). Neutrality in the Early Cold War: Swiss Arms Imports and Neutrality. Cold War History, 12(1), 25–49.

Wyss, M. (2011). Is Kosovo the Beginning and the End? Swiss Military Peacekeeping. Baltic Security and Defence Review, 13(1), 51–70.

Wyss, M. (2011). Military Transformation in Europe’s Neutral and Non-Allied States. RUSI Journal, 156(2), 44–51.

Wyss, M. (2011). A War-Profiteer or a Strategic Lightweight? Switzerland in American Aircraft Supply Priorities in the Emerging Cold War. Militärhistorisk Tidskrift, 2009–2010, 311–339.

Wyss, M. (2011). Abhängigkeit wider Willen oder Drang zum Westen? Die einseitigen Rüstungsbeschaffungen und -lieferungen der Schweiz im frühen Kalten Krieg. Itinera, 30, 31–45.

Wyss, M. (2010). Jet Propulsion Technology in Switzerland: Introduction without Production in the Emerging Cold War 1945–1949. Traverse, no. 3, 113–124.

Wyss, M. (2009). Des Vampires pour la Suisse. Hiérarchies militaires et acquisition des premiers avions à réaction au début de la Guerre froide. Revue Historique Neuchâteloise, 146(3), 201–211.

Wyss, M. (2007). Un suisse au service de la SS, Dr. Franz Riedweg et le “travail germanique” de la SS. Revue Suisse d’Histoire, 57(4), 417–440.

Wyss, M., & Kleynhans, E. (2025). Introduction: The past, the present, and the future of African defence and armed forces. In E. Kleynhans & M. Wyss (Eds.), Handbook of African defence and armed forces (pp. 1–22). Oxford University Press.

Wyss, M., & Wylie, N. (2020). Guardians of the “whispering gallery”?: Switzerland, neutrality and the clandestine war. In A. Gerolymatos, D. Smyth, & J. Horncastle (Eds.), Neutral countries as clandestine battlegrounds, 1939–1968: Between two fires (pp. 137–154). Lexington Books.

Schaufelbuehl, J.-M., Wyss, M., & Zanier, V. (2018). Europe and China in the Cold War: Exchanges beyond the bloc logic and the Sino-Soviet split. In J.-M. Schaufelbuehl, M. Wyss, & V. Zanier (Eds.), Europe and China in the Cold War: Exchanges beyond the bloc logic and the Sino-Soviet split (pp. 1–15). Brill.

Meijer, H., & Wyss, M. (2018). Introduction: Beyond CSDP: The resurgence of national armed forces in Europe. In H. Meijer & M. Wyss (Eds.), The handbook of European defence policies and armed forces (pp. 1–31). Oxford University Press.

Bott, S., Hanhimäki, J. M., Schaufelbuehl, J.-M., & Wyss, M. (2016). Introduction: A tightrope walk – Neutrality and neutralism in the global Cold War. In S. Bott, J. M. Hanhimäki, & J.-M. Schaufelbuehl (Eds.), Neutrality and neutralism in the global Cold War: Between or within the blocs? (pp. 1–14). Routledge.

Wyss, M., & Kleynhans, E. (Eds.). (2025). Handbook of African defence and armed forces. Oxford University Press.

Wyss, M. (2021). Postcolonial security: Britain, France, and West Africa’s Cold War. Oxford University Press.

Schaufelbuehl, J.-M., Wyss, M., & Zanier, V. (Eds.). (2018). Europe and China in the Cold War: Exchanges beyond the bloc logic and the Sino-Soviet split. Brill.

Meijer, H., & Wyss, M. (Eds.). (2018). The handbook of European defence policies and armed forces. Oxford University Press.

Bott, S., Hanhimäki, J. M., Schaufelbuehl, J. M., & Wyss, M. (Eds.). (2016). Neutrality and neutralism in the global Cold War: Between or within the blocs? Routledge.

Tardy, T., & Wyss, M. (Eds.). (2014). Peacekeeping in Africa: The evolving security architecture. Routledge.

Wyss, M. (2013). Arms transfers, neutrality and Britain’s role in the Cold War: Anglo-Swiss relations 1945–1958. Brill.

Wyss, M. (2010). Un Suisse au service de la SS: Dr. Franz Riedweg (1907–2005). Editions Alphil–Presses universitaires suisses.

Chafer, T., Charbonneau, B., & Wyss, M. (Eds.). (2017). Whose “West Africa”? The regional dynamics of peace and security. Journal of Contemporary African Studies, 35(4).

Bott, S., Hanhimäki, J. M., Schaufelbuehl, J. M., & Wyss, M. (Eds.). (2015). Suisse et Guerre froide dans le tiers-monde. Relations Internationales, (163).

Bott, S., Hanhimäki, J. M., Schaufelbuehl, J. M., & Wyss, M. (Eds.). (2015). Beyond and between the Cold War blocs. The International History Review, 37(5).

Tardy, T., & Wyss, M. (Eds.). (2013). Alternative perspectives on African peacekeeping. Journal of International Peacekeeping, 17(3–4).

Wyss, M. (2009). Dr. Franz Riedweg and the Enforcement of Non-German ‘Germanic Civilians’ to SS Standards during the Second World War. En *Military Conflicts and Civil Populations. Total Wars, Limited Wars, Asymmetric Wars. 34th Congress of the International Commission of Military History, Trieste, Vol. I* (pp. 448–458). Ministero della Difesa / Commissione Italiana di Storia Militare.

Wyss, M. (2010). Guillaume Tell, du sujet de dispute à l’objet de recherche. En J.-D. Morerod & A. Näf (Eds.), *Guillaume Tell et la Libération des Suisses, Pour mémoire* (pp. 209–238). Société d’Histoire de la Suisse Romande.

Wyss, M., et al. (2010). Les plus anciens textes. En J.-D. Morerod & A. Näf (Eds.), *Guillaume Tell et la Libération des Suisses, Pour mémoire* (pp. 15–116). Société d’Histoire de la Suisse Romande.

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