Joel Stuart Andrew Hayward
Professor, Homeland Security Program
Professor Joel Hayward is a New Zealand/British scholar who currently serves as Professor of Strategic Thought at the Rabdan Academy. He has held various academic leadership posts, including Director of the Institute for International and Civil Security at Khalifa University (UAE), Chair of the Department of Humanities and Social Sciences (also at Khalifa University), Head of Air Power Studies at King’s College London, and Dean of the Royal Air Force College (both UK).
He is the author or editor of sixteen books and monographs and dozens of peer-reviewed articles, mainly in the fields of strategic studies, the ethics of war and conflict, and Islamic and modern western history. He is especially interested in international politics, Just War and the ethics of modern conflict. He also researches and lectures on the Islamic laws and ethics of security.
He is fascinated by comparative religious studies and how the world’s religions engage with, and shape, politics and warfare. He reads the scriptures of the Abrahamic faiths in their original languages (Hebrew, Greek and Arabic). As a research area and specialization, he is interested in both the influence of conflict on Islam and the influence of Islam on conflict. Also able to read several modern languages, he has undertaken extensive primary research in Russian and German military archives.
His books include Stopped at Stalingrad: The Luftwaffe and Hitler’s Defeat in the East 1942-1943 (1998), For God and Glory: Lord Nelson and His Way of War (2003), Born to Lead? Portraits of New Zealand Commanders (2004, with Prof Glyn Harper), Airpower, Insurgency and the War on Terror (2009), (Warfare in the Qur’an (2012), War is Deceit: An Analysis of a Contentious Hadith on the Morality of Military Deception (2017), Civilian Immunity in Foundational Islamic Strategic Thought: A Historical Enquiry (2019), and The Leadership of Muhammad: A Historical Reconstruction. For the latter, he was awarded the prestigious prize of Best International Non-Fiction Book at the 2021 Sharjah International Book Awards.
His books have appeared in various languages, including Spanish, Portuguese, German, Polish, Chinese and Arabic.
Professor Hayward has given strategic advice to political and military leaders in several countries, has given policy advice to prominent sheikhs, and was tutor to His Royal Highness Prince William of Wales, Duke of Cambridge. In 2011 he was elected as a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts and in 2012 he was elected as a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society. In 2016 he was named as the “Best Professor of Humanities and Social Sciences” at the Middle East Education Leadership Awards. Professor Hayward is also active in the literary arts and has published three books of fiction and four collections of Islamic poetry.
Doctor of Philosophy, University of Canterbury, 1996.
Master of Arts with First Class Honours, University of Canterbury, 1993.
― Awarded the 1993 Philip Ross May Gown (“for academic excellence at the M.A. level”)
― Awarded the Sir James Hight Memorial Prize (for the year’s best M.A. thesis)
Bachelor of Arts, University of Canterbury, 1991.
Zertifikat Deutsch als Fremdsprache (Z.D.a.F.) Goethe Institut, Staufen im Breisgau, Germany, 1994
- Islamic strategic and military history
- Islamic strategic thought
- Twentieth century European history
- Western strategic thought
- International humanitarian law
- The ethics of war
- Leadership
- Humanities research methods
- Social science research methods
- Islamic strategic and military history
- Islamic strategic thought
- Twentieth century European history
- Western strategic thought
- International humanitarian law
- The ethics of war
- Leadership
Academic books and major monographs
- The Leadership of Muhammad: A Historical Reconstruction (Swansea: Claritas Books, June 2021).
— Best International Non-Fiction Book at the 2021 Sharjah International Cultural Awards
— Turkish, Bosnian, and Arabic translations are already underway
- لله وللمجد: اللورد نيلسون وأسلوبه في الحرب (عمّان – دار أسامة للنشر والتوزيع، ٢٠٢١)
- Civilian Immunity in Foundational Islamic Strategic Thought. English Monograph Series — Book No. 25 (Amman: Royal Islamic Strategic Studies Centre / Royal Aal al-Bayt Institute for Islamic Thought, 2018).
- الحصانة المدنية في الفكر الاستراتيجي الإسلامي التأسيسي : تحقيقٌ تاريخي . Arabic Monograph Series. (Amman: Royal Islamic Strategic Studies Centre / Royal Aal al-Bayt Institute for Islamic Thought, 2018).
- “War is Deceit”: An Analysis of a Contentious Hadith on the Morality of Military Deception. English Monograph Series — Book No. 24 (Amman: Royal Islamic Strategic Studies Centre / Royal Aal al-Bayt Institute for Islamic Thought, 2017).
- Zatrzymani pod Stalingradem: Klęska Luftwaffe i Hitlera na wschodzie 1942-1943 (Warsaw: Wydawnictwo Napoleon V, 2015)
- Editor, Air Power and the Environment: The Ecological Consequences of Modern Air Warfare (Montgomery, Alabama: Air University Press, 2013. Second edition 2019).
- Warfare in the Qur’an English Monograph Series — Book No. 14 (Amman: Royal Islamic Strategic Studies Centre / Royal Aal al-Bayt Institute for Islamic Thought, 2012).
- Editor, Air Power, Insurgency and the “War on Terror” (Royal Air Force Centre for Air Power Studies, 2009).
- 신과 영광을 위해: 넬슨 경과 그의 전쟁 방식 (Goyang-Si: In-Gan-Sar-Rang, 2004).
- For God and Glory: Lord Nelson and His Way of War (US Naval Institute Press, 2003. Second edition 2019).
- Co-Author, Born to Lead: Portraits of New Zealand Commanders (with Glyn Harper: Exisle Press, 2003).
- Adolf Hitler and Joint Warfare (Wellington: Military Studies Institute, 2000).
- A Joint Future? The Move to Jointness and its Implications for the New Zealand Defence Force (Wellington: Centre for Defence Studies, 2000).
- Stopped at Stalingrad: The Luftwaffe and Hitler’s Defeat in the East 1942-1943 (University Press of Kansas, 1998, 2001 and other editions).
Literary Books
- وحشيّ وغيرها من القصص الإسلامية القصيرة (Amman: Dar Al-Shorouk, 2018).
- جني ذات الأسنان الخضراء وقصص قصيرة أُخرى (Amman: Dar Al-Shorouk, 2018).
- The Savage and other Islamic Short Stories (Swansea: Claritas, 2018).
- Pain and Passing: Islamic Poems of Grief and Healing (Swansea: Claritas, 2018).
- Poems from the Straight Path: A Collection of Islamic Verse (Ashland, OR: White Cloud Press, 2017)
- Splitting the Moon: A Book of Islamic Poetry (Markfield, UK: Kube, 2012).
- No Lamp in the Cave: Islamic Short Stories (CreateSpace, 2012).
- Jenny Green Teeth and Other Short Stories (Palmerston North: Totem Press, 2003).
- Lifeblood: A Book of Poems (Palmerston North: Totem Press, 2003).
Books in progress
- An Ecological History of War: The Environmental Consequences of Warfare from Antiquity to the Present (Cambridge University Press, 2023).
- Prophet and Warrior: The Conduct and Justice of Muhammad’s Military Campaigns (White Cloud, 2022).
Selected key book chapters and peer-reviewed articles
- “Islamic Principles of War for the Twenty-first Century” (Amman: Royal Islamic Strategic Studies Institute, February 2021).
- “Revisiting the Past: The Value of Teaching Islamic Military History”, Cambridge Muslim College Papers, Vol. 8, 2020.
- “Justice, Jihad, and Duty: the Qur’anic Concept of Armed Conflict”, Islam and Civilizational Renewal, Vol. 9, No. 3 (July 2018), pp. 267-303.
- “The Islamic Tradition of Diplomacy”, National Defense, Issue No. 5 (not peer-reviewed).
- “Warfare in the Qur’an” in HRH Prince Ghazi bin Muhammad, Ibrahim Kalin and Mohammad Hashim Kamali, editors, War and Peace in Islam: The Uses and Abuses of Jihad (Amman: Royal Islamic Strategic Studies Centre / Royal Aal al-Bayt Institute for Islamic Thought, 2013), pp. 28-56.
- “Air Power and the Environment: Some Ecological Implications of Modern Warfare”, in Joel Hayward, ed., Air Power and the Environment: The Ecological Consequences of Modern Air Warfare (Montgomery, Alabama: Air University Press, 2013), pp. 197-224.
- “Qur’anic Concepts of the Ethics of War: Challenging the Claims of Islamic Aggressiveness”, Cordoba Foundation Occasional Paper (Series 2, April 2011).
- “Reflections on the Maxwell ‘Revolution’: John Warden and Reforms in Professional Military Education” [with Dr Tamir Libel], Air Power Review, Vol. 4, No. 1 (Spring 2011), pp. 11-33.
- “The Qur’an and War: Observations on Islamic Just War”, Air Power Review, Vol. 13, No. 3 (2010), pp. 41-63.
- “Air Power, Ethics and Civilian Immunity during the Great War and its Aftermath”, Global War Studies, Vol. 7, No. 7 (2010), pp. 102-130.
- “Adding Brain to Brawn: The School of Advanced Air and Space Studies and its Impact on Air Power Thinking” [with Dr Tamir Libel], Air Power Review, Vol. 13, No. 2 (Summer 2010), pp. 69-80.
- “Demasiado Poco, Demasiado Tarde: Un Análisis del Fracaso de Hitler en Agos-to de 1942 de Dañar la Producción Petrolífera Soviética.” Traducido por Francisco Medina Portillo (Edciones De La Guerra, 2010), pp. 1-19.
- “Air Power: The Quest to remove Battle from War,” in Ashgate Research Companion to Modern Warfare, ed. by George Kassimeris and John Buckley, (Ashgate, 2009), pp. 49-72.
- “Air Power and the Environment: The Ecological Implications of Modern Air Warfare”, Air Power Review, Vol. 12, No. 3 (2009), pp. 15-41.
- “The Luftwaffe and Agility,” in N. Parton, ed., Air Power: The Agile Air Force (Royal Air Force Centre for Air Power Studies, 2008), pp. 40-49.
- “Current and Future Command Challenges for New Zealand Defence Force Personnel”, Australian Defence Force Journal, 155 (July/August 2002), pp. 39-45.
- “Prayers Before Battle: The Spiritual Utterances of Three Great Commanders”, The [U.S.] Army Chaplaincy, Winter-Spring 2002, pp. 32-40.
- “Horatio Lord Nelson’s Warfighting Style and the Maneuver Warfare Paradigm”, Defence Studies, 1, No. 2 (Summer 2001), pp. 15-37.
- “Adolf Hitler 1889-1945: German Dictator and War Leader”, in Charles Messenger, ed., Reader’s Guide to Military History (London: Fitzroy Dearborn, 2001), pp. 229-233.
- “Too Little, Too Late: An Analysis of Hitler’s Failure in August 1942 to Damage Soviet Oil Production”, The Journal of Military History, 64, No. 3 (July 2000), pp. 769-794.
- ― Republished in Jeremy Black, ed., The Second World War, Volume I: The German War 1939–1942 (London: Ashgate, 2007), pp. 511–536.
- “Leonard Henry Trent”, Vol. 5, The Dictionary of New Zealand Biography (Auckland University Press, 2000), pp. 515-526.
- “A Case Study in Early Joint Warfare: An Analysis of the Wehrmacht’s Crimean Campaign of 1942”, The Journal of Strategic Studies, 22, No. 4 (December 1999), pp. 103-130.
- ― Republished in Jeremy Black, ed., The Second World War, Volume I, pp. 483–510.
- “Eine Fallstudie früher integrierter Kriegführung: Eine Analyse des Krimfeldzuges der Wehrmacht im Jahre 1942”, Vierteljahreshefte für Geschichtsforschung, 3. Jahrgangs. Heft 1 (März 1999), pp. 21-37.
- “NATO’s Air War in the Balkans: A Preliminary Analysis”, New Zealand Army Journal, 21 (July 1999), pp. 1-17.
- “Adolf Eichmann” in John Sandford, ed., The Routledge Encyclopedia of Contemporary German Culture (Routledge, 1999).
- “Simon Wiesenthal”, in John Sandford, ed., The Routledge Encyclopedia of Contemporary German Culture (Routledge, 1999).
- “A Case Study in Effective Command: An Analysis of Field Marshal Richthofen’s Character and Career”, New Zealand Army Journal, No. 18 (January 1998), pp. 7-18.
- “The German Use of Airpower at Kharkov, May 1942”, Air Power History, 44, No. 2 (Summer 1997), pp.18-29.
- “Stalingrad: An Examination of Hitler’s Decision to Airlift”, Airpower Journal, 11, No. 1 (Spring 1997), pp. 21-37.
- “Von Richthofen’s ‘Giant Fire-Magic’: The Luftwaffe’s Contribution to the Battle of Kerch, 1942”, The Journal of Slavic Military Studies, Vol. 10, No.2 (June 1997), pp. 97-124.
- “Hitler’s Quest for Oil: The Impact of Economic Considerations on Military Strategy, 1941-1942”, The Journal of Strategic Studies, 18, No. 4 (December 1995), pp. 94-135.
- ― Republished in Jeremy Black, ed., The Second World War, Volume I, pp. 441–482.
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