Associate ProfessorAhmed Hashim
Associate Professor, War Studies
Faculty of Arts and Education/Centre for Future Defence and National Security
Orcid identifier0000-0002-1706-5324 (opens in a new tab)
- Associate Professor, War StudiesFaculty of Arts and Education/Centre for Future Defence and National Security
- Canberra - Centre for Defence
RESEARCH INTERESTS
Evolution of War from ancient times to the present
Future War
Militaries of the Middle East, South Asia and Indo-Pacific
Grand Strategies
Hybrid Warfare
Knowledge Areas
Extensive knowledge of security issues in the Middle East and Indo-Pacific
regions.
Specific functional specializations: Future War, Insurgency and
Counterinsurgency, Terrorism and Counterterrorism, Grand Strategies, ancient
and modern military history.
Major focus on conventionbal war and the trajectory of future war, Aritifical
Intelligence, Robotics, and future technologies of war
Projects
Hashim's current projects include the following book projects to be completed
in 2021: a. Iranian Ways of War: From Cyrus to Qasim Soleimani, (NY: Oxford
University Press); b. "Mighty Melians": the construction of national security
and defence capabilities in Qatar, the UAE and Singapore (London: Hurst); c.
the edited volume entitled the Encyclopedia of Strategic Studies (London:
Edward Elgar).
Articles slated for the next year include: a. Carl Schmitt's Theory of War and
International Order; b. Can Asians Fight: Structural Impediments to Military
Effectiveness in the militaries of India, Japan and China; c. the PAVN as
Asymmetric Warfare Exemplar: Vietnamese Ways of War; Assessing the theories of
Future War and the Future of War.
Prepare to teach the Future War Module and to assist colleagues in other
modules in the next academic year.
Future War
Militaries of the Middle East, South Asia and Indo-Pacific
Grand Strategies
Hybrid Warfare
Knowledge Areas
Extensive knowledge of security issues in the Middle East and Indo-Pacific
regions.
Specific functional specializations: Future War, Insurgency and
Counterinsurgency, Terrorism and Counterterrorism, Grand Strategies, ancient
and modern military history.
Major focus on conventionbal war and the trajectory of future war, Aritifical
Intelligence, Robotics, and future technologies of war
Projects
Hashim's current projects include the following book projects to be completed
in 2021: a. Iranian Ways of War: From Cyrus to Qasim Soleimani, (NY: Oxford
University Press); b. "Mighty Melians": the construction of national security
and defence capabilities in Qatar, the UAE and Singapore (London: Hurst); c.
the edited volume entitled the Encyclopedia of Strategic Studies (London:
Edward Elgar).
Articles slated for the next year include: a. Carl Schmitt's Theory of War and
International Order; b. Can Asians Fight: Structural Impediments to Military
Effectiveness in the militaries of India, Japan and China; c. the PAVN as
Asymmetric Warfare Exemplar: Vietnamese Ways of War; Assessing the theories of
Future War and the Future of War.
Prepare to teach the Future War Module and to assist colleagues in other
modules in the next academic year.