Tshepo Gwatiwa is a Lecturer in Intelligence Studies at Macquarie University (Sydney, Australia) and Senior Researcher Fellow at the Institute for Pan-African Thought and Conversation (IPATC), University of Johannesburg (South Africa). He is the author of The African Union and African Agency in International Politics (2022) and is co-editor (with Justin van der Merwe) of Expanding US Military Command in Africa: Elites, Networks and Grand Strategy (2021).