Jonathan Hill

Visiting Fellow

Dr Jonathan Hill is Reader in Postcolonialism and the Maghreb in the Defence Studies Department at King’s College London. He joined King’s in 2005 after completing his PhD in the Department of International Politics at the University of Wales, Aberystwyth. He is an Associate Staff Member in the Institute of Middle Eastern Studies at King’s College London and a former Senior Associate Member of St Antony’s College, University of Oxford. He is a member of both the Board of Advisory Editors for the Middle East Journal and the ESRC’s Peer Review College. He is a Fellow of the British Society of Middle Eastern Studies (BRISMES) and the Middle East Studies Association (MESA). He has provided expert opinion on North Africa to a range of public and private organisations including the UK’s Foreign and Commonwealth Office, Ministry of Defence and Department for International Development, Sweden’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the World Energy Council.

Jon’s research examines and compares political processes, structures and cultures in contemporary North Africa and, increasingly, the wider Middle East. He is currently completing a book for Edinburgh University Press entitled Democratisation in the Maghreb which draws on Steven Levitsky and Lucan Way’s democratisation model to chart and compare the political development of Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia and Mauritania over the past 10 years.

Contact Details

Mob:  +44 (0) 7816 206 746

Research Interests

Contemporary and comparative politics of Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia and Mauritania with emphasis on:

• Colonial legacies;
• Islamism;
• authoritarianism;
• democratisation;
• security;
• external relations (Europe and the United States).

Selected Publications

Books

• Hill, Jonathan. Democratisation in the Maghreb. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2015 (forthcoming).
• Hill, Jonathan. Nigeria Since Independence. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2012.
• Hill, Jonathan. Identity In Algerian Politics. Boulder: Lynne Rienner Publishers, 2009.

Monographs

• Hill, Jonathan. Sufism in Northern Nigeria: Force for counter-radicalization? Strategic Studies Institute, 2010.

Book Chapters

• Hill, Jonathan. 'Providing for National Security: A Comparative Analysis' in A Dorman & J Kaufman (eds), Providing for National Security: A Comparative Analysis. Stanford University Press, 2000.

Papers

• Hill, Jonathan. 'Linkage, Leverage and Organisational Power: Algeria and the Maghreb Spring'. Comparative Governance and Politics, 2015 (forthcoming). 
• Hill, Jonathan. 'Remembering the war of liberation: Legitimacy and conflict in contemporary Algeria'. Small Wars & Insurgencies 23:1, 2012, pp. 4-31. 
• Hill, Jonathan. 'Islamism and Democracy in the Modern Maghreb'. Third World Quarterly 32:6, 2011. 
• Hill, Jonathan. 'Frustrated Hopes: Democracy and its Alternatives in North Africa and the Middle East'. Mediterranean Politics 14: 3, 2009. pp. 443-453.
• Hill, Jonathan. 'Decolonization and the Challenges of Independence in Modern Algeria'. Intelligence and National Security 24:4, 2009. pp. 612-622.

For more publications, see https://kcl.academia.edu/JonathanHill.