Associate ProfessorAhmed Hashim

Ahmed S. Hashim received his B.A. from Warwick University and M.A. and Ph.D
from MIT. He specialises in Strategic Studies, specifically on security issues
as they relate to the Middle East and the Indo-Pacific regions. Functionally,
he specialises in Future Warfare, Grand Strategies, and the evolution of ways
of war of various states and societies.

Ahmed S. Hashim is Associate Professor of Strategic Studies in the School of
Humanities and Social Sciences. He studied Politics and International
Relations at Warwick University, Coventry, UK under Barry Buzan and Robert
Skiddelsky where he received his B.A. He received his M.A. in Political
Science at MIT where he studied Strategic Studies, International Relations and
Comparative Politics with Hayward Alker, Lucian Pye, William Kaufmann, and
Barry Posen. He received his Ph.D from MIT in Strategic Studies. He worked at
the Centert for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) in Washington, D.C.
where he focused on security issues related to the Persian Gulf. He moved to
the Center for Naval Analysis in Virginia where he worked on U.S. national
security issues as they related to the Persian Gulf and the Indo-Pacific
regions; specifically on interoperability and joint warfare and the evolution
of the Chinese Navy (the PLA-N). He then worked for the United States
Department of Defense where his work initially focused on future warfare
matters, security in the Persian Gulf and Indo-Pacific regions. He also
developed an expertise in Terrorism and Counter-Terrorism studies, Insurgency
and Counterinsurgency and helped develop strategies for the U.S. military to
prosecute the Global War on Terror. After 11 years, he moved to Asia to
further his interest in Asian security issues. He worked at the Rajaratnam
School of International Studies and the Singapore Armed Forces Training
Institute where he taught courses on Defence Analysis, Military History,
Counterterrorism and Insurgency and Counterinsurgency. He contributed to the
pre-deployment education of the Singapore military prior to deployment in
Southwest Asia. Hashim also helped set up and headed the Research and
Integrity unit of his department to ensure academic integrity and ethical
conduct. After a decade in Singapore, Hashim moved permanently to Australia to
work at Deakin University and the Canberra Centre for Defence Studies. His
focus of attention for the coming years will be on the evolution of security
issues in the Indo-Pacific particularly as they pertain to the security of
Australia, contribute to ensuring the security of Australia, pursue the study
and teaching of future war and grand strategies and improve his Mandarin and
Russian language skills. He has recently completed five aerticles to be
published by end of 2020 and early 2021. His forthcoming projects include
completing two book projects and three articles on Asian security issues and
also on future war.

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