Ronan Wordsworth

Ronan Wordsworth is an analyst for Geopolitical Futures. He completed a Masters in Geopolitical Studies at Charles University in Prague in 2022. He has an ongoing association with the University, including assisting an ongoing project of African University partnerships and is co-host of a Geopolitics Podcast. Prior to undertaking the master’s program, Mr Wordsworth completed a Bachelor of Civil Engineering from the University of Sydney and spent nine years working across Australia, Europe, and Southern Africa working up to the level of Senior Project Manager providing experience in statistical analytics.

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The UAE’s Quiet Militarization of the Red Sea

The Rapid Support Forces, a paramilitary group that comprises one side of the civil war in Sudan, recently took el-Fasher, the last important stronghold of the country’s military in western Sudan. The victory – and the massacre that followed – would have been impossible without foreign support. Multiple intelligence assessments suggest that that support came […]

A Shift in the Nuclear Order?

Following a visit with South Korean President Lee Jae Myung, U.S. President Donald Trump announced that Seoul had his approval to build a nuclear-powered submarine. At first glance, the...

Why the Conflict in the Congo Can’t Stop

This week, the United States hosted a third round of talks to broker peace between the Democratic Republic of the Congo and M23, a rebel group that has taken...

China’s Green Push for the Global South

As the world transitions from hydrocarbons to renewables, Washington and Beijing are pursuing diverging paths that will have important implications for global leadership and geoeconomic power in the 21st...

Australia, Papua New Guinea and China: The Strategic Pivot in the Pacific

On Sept. 17, Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese was in Port Moresby, the capital of Papua New Guinea, where he was expected to sign the landmark Pukpuk Treaty. The...

A Global Military Recruitment Crisis

Many militaries in the world have a personnel problem. The British government, for example, has said for years that it doesn’t just need more troops; it needs a different...

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