Matthew Hoye
Associate Professor
- Name
- Dr. J.M. Hoye
- Telephone
- +31 70 800 9506
- j.m.hoye@fgga.leidenuniv.nl
J. Matthew Hoye is Associate Professor of Global Justice at ISGA and head of the War, Peace, and Justice Research Group. He is also the Principal Investigator of the European Research Council Starting Grant JustRemit, a member of ISGA’s board of examiners, and a teacher.
More information about Matthew Hoye
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News and media
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Call for Paper/Panel Proposals: 'Regulating Remittances: Methods, Case Studies and Theories' -
‘The Afghan state has collapsed, but the democratic gains of the past 20 years are not lost’ -
Lessons from Afghanistan: call for papers and policy think pieces -
ERC Starting Grants for five young researchers from Leiden University
Research projects
J. Matthew Hoye is Associate Professor of Global Justice at ISGA and head of the War, Peace, and Justice Research Group. He is also the Principal Investigator of the European Research Council Starting Grant JustRemit, a member of ISGA’s board of examiners, and a teacher.
Research
Matthew’s research interests are diverse, clustering around three themes. One theme is political theory and the history of ideas, with a focus on the political philosophy of Thomas Hobbes. That research includes studies into war, peace, justice, security, obligation, law, rhetoric, resistance, urban politics, and new foundations. This research has been published in various leading journals. Most recently, Matthew published Sovereignty as a Vocation in Hobbes’s Leviathan: New foundations, statecraft, and virtue (2024) with Amsterdam University Press.
Matthew is also interested in migration politics and security. Parts of this research look back to pre-liberal ways of thinking about migration found in the republican tradition, particularly Machiavelli, Spinoza, Althusius, the Radical Enlightenment, and the early-modern republican revolutionary period. Matthew also works on contemporary issues in migration politics, including on topics such as sanctuary cities. These various lines of research are the basis for an ongoing research project into the democratic-republican critique of migration, tentatively titled Migration and the Republic from Spinoza to Sanctuary: War, Peace, and Democracy.
Lastly, as the PI of JustRemit, Matthew leads a research group of two PhDs and a Postdoc in the study of remittances and global justice. Remitters send upwards of €1 trillion annually to their families back home. One billion people participate in the global remittance economy as senders and receivers. That money is elementally important for the well-being of receivers. Yet remittances are marginal concerns in the global justice debates. JustRemit begins by considering why existing liberal critiques—from open and aspirational cosmopolitanism to closed and protective statism—generate strikingly shallow analyses of the phenomenon and are normatively inapt. It then aims to set out a new approach to thinking about remittances and justice in a way that is analytically powerful and normatively useful. As such, remittances demand that we rethink notions of agency, institutions, transnational entitlements, duties, and strategy. Please see the JustRemit project webpage for more details.
Matthew's Ph.D. and previous work
Matthew’s Ph.D. is from the New School for Social Research (Politics, honors in Political Theory), where he was supervised by Nancy Fraser. His Ph.D. thesis was awarded The Frieda Wunderlich Memorial Award, the university’s highest academic honor. In 2011, he held the Frank Altschul Fellowship at the New School. In 2012-13 and 2013-14, he was a Max Weber fellow in the departments of History and Civilization, then in Social and Political Studies. In 2017-18, he was a fellow at the Netherlands Institute of Advanced Studies. He has worked at Maastricht University (Philosophy) and Vrije University Amsterdam (Law and Political Science).
Associate Professor
- Faculty Governance and Global Affairs
- Institute of Security and Global Affairs
- War, Peace and Justice
- Hoye J.M. (2022), Famine, remittances, and global justice, World Development Perspectives 27: 100446.
- Hoye J.M. (2021) Oxford Handbook of Global Justice at Contemporary Political Theory (Review). Review of: , Oxford Handbook of Global Justice at Contemporary Political Theory. Contemporary Political Theory .
- Hoye J.M. (2021), Migration, Membership, and Republican Liberty , Critical Review of International Social and Political Philosophy 24(2): .
- Hoye J.M. (2021), Global justice and the remittances challenge: on political ontology and agency, Constellations 28: 234-251.
- Hoye J.M. (2021), Is a European Republic Possible? On the Puzzle of Corporate Domination. In: Meacham D. & de Warren N. (Eds.), The Routledge Handbook of Philosophy and Europe: Routledge.
- Hoye J.M. (2020), Leviathan Against the City Commonwealth, History of Political Thought 41(3): 419-449.
- Hoye J.M. (2020), Sanctuary Cities and Republican Liberty, Politics and Society 48(1): 67–97.
- Hoye J.M. (2020) Cities and Immigration: Political and Moral Dilemmas in the New Era of Migration (Review), by Avner de-Shalit. Review of: . Perspectives on Politics 18(1).
- Hoye J.M. (2019) The Expanding Blaze: How the American Revolution Ignited the World, 1775–1848 (Review), by Jonathan Israel. Review of: . Contemporary Political Theory 18(4): 274–77.
- Hoye J.M. (2019), Natural Justice, Law, and Virtue in Hobbes’s Leviathan, Hobbes Studies 32: 1-31.
- Hoye J.M. (2019), Rhetorical Action and Constitutive Politics, Rhetorica 37(3): 286–320.
- Hoye J.M. (2018) The Elusive Politics of Radical Democratic Philosophy. Review of: . Contemporary Political Theory 17(1).
- Hoye J.M. & Monaghan J. (2018), Surveillance, Freedom and the Republic, European Journal of Political Theory 17(3): .
- Hoye J.M. (2017), Obligation and Sovereign Virtue in Hobbes’s Leviathan, The Review of Politics 79: 23–47.
- Hoye J.M. (2017), Neo-republicanism, old imperialism, and migration ethics , Constellations 24(2): 154-166.
- Hoye J.M. (2016), Brunkhorst’s Critical Theory: Evolutionary Paths or Path Dependency, Krisis: tijdschrift voor actuele filosofie 2: .
- Hoye J.M. & Nienass B. (2014), Authority without Foundations: Arendt and the Paradox of Postwar German Memory Politics, The Review of Politics 76: 415–37.
- Hoye J.M. (2013) Foundations of Modern International Thought, by David Armitage (Review). Review of: . Journal of Intellectual History and Political Thought 2(1): 221–24.