Dr Matthew Hill

Books (authored)

Hill M, Hurst S. 2022. The Trump Presidency Continuity and Change in US Foreign Policy Hill M, Hurst S. Routledge 9781032314631 Publisher Url Public Url

Hill M. 2022. Chapter One: Introduction :1-6 Routledge. New York 9781003254799 DOI Publisher Url Public Url

Hill MA. 2012. Chapter 3: Motives for American democracy promotion Routledge 9780415749565 DOI Publisher Url Public Url

Hill MA. 2011. Democracy Promotion and Conflict-based Reconstruction The United States and Democratic Consolidation in Bosnia, Afghanistan and Iraq Routledge 9780415588928

Hill MA. American Politics For Dummies John Wiley & Sons 9781118921128

Journal article

Hill M, Hurst S. 2020. The Trump presidency: continuity and change in US foreign policy Introduction Global Affairs, DOI Publisher Url Public Url

Hill M, Hurst S. 2020. The Trump administration: continuity and change in US foreign policy Global Affairs, 6 DOI Publisher Url Public Url

Hill MA. 2010. International actors and democratisation: can USAID deliver a democratic culture to Afghanistan? International Relations Journal, 2 :155-174 DOI Author Url Publisher Url

Hill MA. 2010. Erratum to Exploring USAID's democracy promotion in Bosnia and Afghanistan: A 'cookie-cutter approach'? (Democratization, 17, 1 (103)) Democratization, 17 :597 DOI Publisher Url

Hill MA. 2010. Exploring USAID’s democracy promotion in Bosnia and Afghanistan: A ‘cookie-cutter approach’? Democratization, 1 :98-124 DOI Author Url Publisher Url

Book review

Hill MA. 2013. Over There: Living with the U.S. Military Empire from World War Two to the Present Cold War History, 1 :567-568 DOI Publisher Url

Hill MA. 2013. The right kind of revolution: Modernization, development, and U.S. foreign policy from the Cold War to the present Cold War History, 1 :136-137 DOI Publisher Url

Hill MA. 2012. State power and democracy: before and during the Presidency of George W. Bush Journal of Transatlantic Studies, 3 :297-298 DOI Publisher Url

Other Professional Activity:

I submitted written evidence to the UK Parliament's International Relations and Defence Committee., https://committees.parliament.uk/writtenevidence/139244/pdf/. 2025

I submitted written testimony to a Foreign, Commonwealth, and Development Office white paper on UK international development., https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/international-development-in-a-contested-world-ending-extreme-poverty-and-tackling-climate-change. 2023

External PGR examinations performed:

MA by research, University of Swansea, The Transgressive Presidency: Donald J. Trump. 2024

PhD, University of Surrey, Reversing Course: Explaining Obama’s Rapprochements. 2023

PhD, Cardiff University, Theory-synergetic approach in IR: case-study of BTC and SGC pipelines. 2017

Research Grants Awarded:

Duration of research project: no limitations, Grant value (£): 2,000, Political Studies Association, US foreign policy. 2024

Conference organisation:

I organised and participated in a one-day symposium on the future effects of climate change., People, Politics, and the Planet in Crisis symposium, https://tinyurl.com/2ufpd9t2. 2023

Alongside the University of Liverpool, I organised the annual conference with approx. 800 delegates for the Political Studies Association (PSA)., Political Futures, https://www.psa.ac.uk/events/psa-annual-conference-2023. 2023

Organiser of the international conference that had 60+ delegates come to LJMU to discuss their research on US foreign policy., 13th Annual BISA US Foreign Policy Working Group conference, LJMU Liverpool, https://usfpgroup.org/conferences/. 2018

Co-organiser of the international symposium discussing the geopolitical context and implications of Brexit, and potential scenarios for the EU, the UK and the global order. It examines a number of important questions. These include the new relationship between the UK and the EU, how Europe and the UK will deal with common concerns such as Russia’s resurgence in world affairs and the impact of a Trump presidency on UK-US relations and UK-Europe relations., Brexit in a Changing Geopolitical Context, https://www.ljmu.ac.uk/about-us/events/symposium-brexit. 2017

Co-organised a panel Setting Geopolitical Trends in US Foreign Relations: Reviewing Reactions to the End of the Cold War After 25 Years, International Studies Association Annual Convention, Toronto Canada. 2014

Organised a panel on the relationship between women and foreign policy for the Globalisation and American Grand Strategy in a Time of Austerity conference., BISA US Foreign Policy Working Group conference, Warwick UK. 2013

Organised a conference with LSE IDEAS: Fifty Years without JFK: Rethinking Global Diplomacy, ISA and LSE IDEAS JFK Foreign Policy conference, http://www.lse.ac.uk/IDEAS/events/events/2013/130313-JFK.aspx. 2013

Organised a conference with David Chandler from DPIR, University of Westminster on democracy promotion, Democracy Promotion: Hegemony, Resistance and the Shifting Discourses of Democracy in International Relations, http://events.sas.ac.uk/isa/events/view/12034/Democracy+Promotion:+Hegemony,+Resistance+and+the+Shifting+Discourses+of+Democracy+in+International+Relations. 2013

Co-organised and chaired debate at the Institute for the Study of the Americas, University of London that included Prof. Mick Cox (LSE), Prof. Iwan Morgan (ISA), Dr. Adam Quinn (Birmingham) and Dr. Nick Kitchen (LSE)., Debate on the decline of the United States of America, http://www.sas.ac.uk/videos-and-podcasts/politics-development-human-rights/debate-united-states-america-decline. 2012

Organised at the Insitute for the Study of the Americas, University of London, Seminar on the death penalty in the United States of America. 2012

Organised panel at the Institute for the Study of the Americas, UK, Old wine in a new bottle? Democratisation lessons from Afghanistan and Iraq in the Arab Spring's Libya, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bnisyc5vRZ8. 2012

Co-organiser, Global Political Challenges: Women Advancing Democracy lecture by former US Secretary of State, Madeleine Albright, http://www.lse.ac.uk/IDEAS/events/events/2011/111202Albright.aspx. 2011

Organised a conference on US politics, and workshops on how to present at a conference and get research published in a journal, US Foreign Policy BISA working group and BAAS Postgraduate Conference. 2010

Fellowships:

Rothermere American Instittue (RAI), University of Oxford, Fellow-in-Residence, https://www.rai.ox.ac.uk/fellowships-in-residence. 2023

Higher Education Academy (HEA), Fellow. 2013

Other invited event:

Rothermere American Institute (RAI), University of Oxford, I presented a paper based on the work I was doing a research fellow of the RAI., Obama’s betrayal of local ownership; US engagement in the Arab Spring. 2022

Online, Invited speaker to webinar talking about contemporary US statebuilding and relationship to empire building., American and a Global Empire of Knowledge. 2022

Online, I was invited to speak to an international conference on the status of higher education and current proposed reforms so that we could have a global comparative discussion on reforms to be implemented in the Arab world., The reform of Higher Education in the Arab world. 2021

Online, Presented a paper at an international conference on higher education reform in the UK, The reform of higher education in the Arab world in a comparative perspective: the case of the faculties of law. 2021

Waterstones, Liverpool, All 120 tickets have been taken by members of the public that attended. Matthew Hill organised and will participate in this event. Two former members of the US Congress will be hosted by The International Relations and Politics Programme at LJMU, to discuss the state of US politics today. It promises to be an engaging and wide-ranging conversation, and comes at an important time in US domestic and international politics. Issues we are all asking include, what impact will the impeachment trial and possible eviction from the Office have on President Trump and US politics? After the assassination of the Iranian General Suleimani how is the US engaging with Iran? Will Donald Trump win the 2020 presidential election? Congresspeople Elizabeth Esty, a Democrat from Connecticut (2013-19) and Jeff Miller, a Republican from Florida (2001-17) will be part of our panel, and Dr Matthew Alan Hill, the Programme Leader for International Relations and Politics at LJMU, will chair the event., Inside US Politics: former Members of the US Congress talk America, Trump and Elections. 2020

LSE, London, 20 years after Gideon Rose’s famous review article, and with neoclassical realism firmly established in International Relations and Foreign Policy Analysis, this workshop aims at critically re-appraising and refining the approach. The workshop seeks to make three contributions: firstly, it investigates neoclassical realism’s roots, theoretical scope and domain as well as its core assumptions. Secondly, it assesses neoclassical realism’s potential to bridge disciplinary divides between realism, liberalism, and constructivism in the study of foreign policy and international politics, including through the integration of or fruitful juxtaposition with classical realist, liberal, constructivist and critical scholarship. Thirdly, it assesses a thusly reformulated neoclassical realism’s potential to provide answers to core disciplinary questions in a changing world, including on globalization, global power shifts, technology, and populism., Rethinking Neoclassical Realism – Paradigms and Power Shifts. 2018

Waterstones, Liverpool, There were 100+ members of the public that attended. Matthew Hill organised and participated in this event. Whether by design or accident, the Trump administration has often torn up the rule book on how to behave at the international level. Trump's unusual approach has attracted most of our attention but what does the rest of the ‘world’ think about the US and how do these states act in the international arena? This panel brings in a number of experts to shed light on what the rest of the world is doing and thinking. Each panellist will have 5 minutes and then the discussion will be open to you, the public. It promises to be a rich and engaging conversation, and is open to everyone interested in world affairs. This discussion is organised by the British International Studies Association (BISA) US Foreign Policy Working group in association with Waterstones bookstore and Liverpool John Moores University. The panellists include Dr Matthew Alan Hill, (USFP expert) LJMU, Steven Erlanger, Diplomatic Correspondent for the New York Times, Dr Xin (Calvin) Liu (Chinese expert) LJMU, Dr Ruth Deyermond, Kings College London (Russian Expert) Dr Dimitrios Anagnokstasis University of Aberdeen (European expert) Dr Geraldo Zahran, Pontifical Catholic University of Sao Paolo (Latin & South American expert) & Dr Maria Ryan, University of Nottingham (US expert) ., What the ‘World’ Thinks of the US?. 2018

SOAS, University of London, UK, I have been invited to a symposium at the Centre for International Studies and Diplomacy at the School of Oriental and African Studies to discuss US foreign policy., 100 Years of Wilsoniainism: Global Historical Perspectives. 2017

The Great Hall, Ullet Road Unitarian church, L17 2AA (York Street entrance), Sefton Park, Liverpool L17 2AA, I was an invited speaker at this event (http://www.liverpoolsalon.org.uk/outwiththeold/) From constitutional battles and economic uncertainty at home to political turbulence across Europe and a new president heading into the White House, the winds of change will continue to blow in the year ahead, but in what direction are they blowing? Are you apprehensive, in despair or exhilarated at the prospect of another year of change? Or have you simply given up making predictions? Whatever your hopes, fears, excitement or uncertainties the Liverpool Salon invites you to join a conversation on the tumulteous year that’s gone and the future that awaits. Join three local authors and academics who will share their knowledge of US and European politics and the economy and give their take on 2016 to start the evening off., Out with the old?. 2017

Waterstones L1 Liverpool, Matthew Hill organised and participated in this event. Cheryl Hudson from the History Department at the University of Liverpool was on the panel as well. 20 people attended. On November 8, the US electorate voted for Donald Trump to be the next President of the United States. Whilst he did not win the popular vote he did secure 290 Electoral College votes, enough to secure him the White House. And with the Republican Party keeping control of the Senate and the House of Representatives, there is an opportunity for a Republican agenda both in domestic and foreign policy to be consecrated. In the last event Matthew and Malcolm were pretty convinced that Clinton would win; what went wrong? Was it liberal bias, a blind faith in the rationality of humans that led them astray? What does Trump’s victory say about the battle for America’s identity? Is it too simple to say that there were enough angry voters to tip the polls? All these questions and more were discussed at this event., Donald Trump, the next US President: How did we get it so wrong?. 2016

University of Liverpool, I was invited by the University of Liverpool Politics Department to co-host its US Presidential Election night event at the Guildhall. There were 1,500 to 2,000 people that attended the event., US Presidential Election event. 2016

Waterstones L1 Liverpool, Matthew Hill organised and participated in this event that attracted 90+ members of the public. Since Donald Trump announced his candidacy in the summer of 2015 few political experts, commentators or the general population considered him a serious contender for the Republican Party’s nomination for President. He defied the odds then, can he defy the odds in the upcoming general election against the establishment’s Hilary Clinton? Join Matthew Hill along with Malcolm Craig from Liverpool John Moores University discussed whether Trump can win, and what his candidacy means for the future of democracy., Can Trump Defy The Odds?. 2016

University of Southern Denmark, Odense Denmark, I was part of a panel with a leading Danish expert on US politics discussing the 2016 presidential election to 100 students at the University of Southern Denmark., US 2016 Presidential election. 2015

University of Southern Denmark, Odense Denmark, Invited to present a paper on US foreign policy as part of their research seminar series. 80+ invited guests attended., Can the US promote democracy in a place like Afghanistan?. 2015

School of Advanced Study, University of London, Presented a paper discussing the role of democracy promotion in the Obama administration titled: ‘Obama’s Foreign Policy: Who Needs Democracy Promotion When You’ve Got Democracy Assistance?, School of Advanced Study Dean’s Seminar Series. 2013

SOAS, London UK, Panel member discussing gender and US foreign policy alongside the launch of a new report on gender in teaching https://soasgenderreport.wordpress.com/, Critical and Inclusive? Report and Recommendations on Gender Teaching at SOAS. 2012

University of Westminster, Presented a paper at the Centre for the Study of Democracy seminar series: ‘Can US democracy promotion drive democratic consolidation?’, University of Westminster research seminar series. 2012

Manchester Metropolitan University, Presented a paper at the Department of History, Politics and Philosophy seminar series: ‘Contemporary US democracy assistance: can it drive democratic consolidation?’, Manchester Metropolitan University research seminar series. 2012

Media Coverage:

I spoke on BBC Radio Merseyside about the recent withdrawal of foreign troops from Afghanistan. I explained how it could have been prevented and how the Taliban were possibly going to return to a very strict social control of the people. 2021

I spoke on BBC Radio Merseyside about the recent withdrawal of foreign troops from Afghanistan. I explained how it could have been prevented and how the Taliban were possibly going to return to a very strict social control of the people. 2021

Appeared on the BBC Breakfast show talking about the 2012 US Presidential Election

Conference presentation:

Oral presentation, City University, London UK, BISA US Foreign Policy Working Group conference, Understanding Obama’s application of democracy promotion in the Arab Spring’s Libya. 2015

Oral presentation, London School of Economics, London UK, BISA US Foreign Policy Working Group conference, What would Iraq look like if the US-led coalition had invaded? US plans for post-war reconstruction in 1991. 2014

Oral presentation, San Francisco, USA, International Studies Association Annual Convention, Obama’s Foreign Policy: Who Needs Democracy Promotion When You’ve Got Democracy Assistance?. 2013

Oral presentation, Universidad Rey Juan Carlos Madrid, Spain, Circulación De Ideas Y Modelos Sociales En Perspectiva Transatlántica conference, Contesting sovereignty over Pacific Islands during WWII: The UK versus the US. 2012

Oral presentation, Cork, Éire, Transatlantic Studies Association Annual Conference, Learning lessons from the past: Is past US democracy promotion influencing its engagement in Libya?. 2012

Oral presentation, Reykjavik, Iceland, ECPR General Conference, The US national interest in promoting democracy: Valuing democratisation but not consolidation?. 2011

Oral presentation, Oxford University, UK, American Politics Group annual conference, Comparative analysis of democracy promotion by USAID in Bosnia and Afghanistan: How important are contexts in designing a strategy?. 2009

Oral presentation, MJIA Conference London School of Economics, UK, Interrogating Democracy in International Relations, Owning the democratic development of one's culture: The failure of US democracy promotion in Bosnia and Afghanistan to support, not direct, the transition to democracy. 2008

Teaching qualification:

Postgraduate Certificate in Learning and Teaching (PGCILT). 2013

Membership of professional bodies:

International Studies Association (ISA), Member, http://www.isanet.org/. 2012

Historians of the Twentieth Century United States society (HOTCUS), Member, http://www.hotcus.org.uk/Welcome.html. 2012

British Association for American Studies (BAAS), Member, http://www.baas.ac.uk/. 2010

British International Studies Association (BISA), and its US Foreign Policy working group, Member, http://www.us-foreign-policy.com/. 2009