G. Matthew Bonham

Professor Bonham's website is available here.

Book Chapters, Articles and Papers

"What the 'Axis of Evil' Metaphor Did to Iran."  Middle East Journal.  Vol. 61, no. 3, summer 2007 (with Daniel Heradstveit).

"The 'Axis of Evil' Metaphor and the Restructuring of Iranian Views Toward the U.S."  Journal of the European Society for Iranian Studies.  Vol. 1: 89-105. 2005 (with Daniel Heradstveit).

"The Psychology of Corruption in Azerbaijan and Iran."  In Oil in the Gulf: Obstacles to Democracy and Development.  Aldershot and Burlington: Ashgate: 72-99. 2004 (with Daniel Heradstveit).

"The Transformative Potential of E-Government in Transitional Democracies."  Public Management E-Journal.  Vol. 2. 2003 (with Jeffrey Seifert). http://www.spa.msu.ru/e-journal/2/25_1.php

"The Limited Test-Ban Agreement: Emergence of New Knowledge Structures in International Negotiation."  International Studies Quarterly. Vol. 41: 215-240. (with Victor Sergeev and Pavel Parshin). 1997. 

"Attribution Theory and Arab Images of the Gulf War."  Political Psychology.  Vol. 17: 271-292.  (with Daniel Heradstveit).  1996.

Current Research

How We Perceive Terrorism: Comparative Research on the United States and Europe

This research focuses on how leaders in the United States and Europe perceive the “war on terrorism.”  We will interview Group of Eight (G8) officials about the war on terrorism and compare the cognitions and rhetorical strategies of American officials, on the one hand, with those of other G8 officials.  We choose to focus on G8 countries, the world’s major industrialized democracies, because of their close cooperation on a variety of issues, including terrorism, and the unique experiences of each. We expect to find significant differences in both perception and rhetoric--differences that may create problems of miscommunication at the global level and do little to increase the public’s understanding of terrorism.