G. Matthew Bonham

Professor, International Relations and Political Science

Degree

Ph.D., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1967

Specialties

International relations, foreign policy decision-making, international political communications, linguistic analysis

Personal Website

http://faculty.maxwell.syr.edu/gmbonham/

Publications

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

"The Psychology of Corruption in Azerbaijan and Iran” (with Daniel Heradstveit) in D. Heradstveit and H. Hveem (eds.), Oil in the Gulf.  Obstacles to Democracy and Development. Aldershot and Burlington: Ashgate, 2004, pp. 72-99.

“IP Videoconferencing in Graduate Professional Education: Collaborative Learning for Public Management,” (with Alexi Surin).  Public Management E-Journal, 4 (2004).  http://www.spa.msu.ru/e-journal/5/62_1.php.

“The CCDL PROJECT: Learning Across Borders in a Networked Culture” (with Michiko Nakano) in Malcolm H. Field and James Fegan (eds.), Education Across Borders, forthcoming, 2005.

G. Matthew Bonham (with Daniel Heradstveit), "The 'Axis of Evil' Metaphor and
the Restructuring of Iranian Views Toward the US,” Journal of the European
Society for Iranian Studies 1 (2005), pp. 89-105. 

Courses

Matt offers courses on comparative foreign policy and the analysis of political texts, as well as qualitative skills in International Relations.

Comparative Foreign Policy
Qualitative Skills in International Relations 

Research Interests

Matt works in the areas of international political communications and applications of computer technology to the study of foreign policy decision-making. His research interests include foreign policy decision-making, international negotiation, textual analysis, and computer simulation. He is currently conducting research on how we talk about the "war on terrorism."