1st Edition

Trust in International Relations Rationalist, Constructivist, and Psychological Approaches

188 Pages
by Routledge

188 Pages
by Routledge

Trust is a core concept in International Relations (IR), representing a key ingredient in state relations. It was only relatively recently that IR scholars began to probe what trust really is, how it can be studied, and how it affects state relations. In the process three distinct ways of theorising trust in IR have emerged: trust as a rational choice calculation, as a social phenomenon or as a... Read more
Introduction Johanna Vuorelma, Hiski Haukkala and Carina van de Wetering
Part One: Trust during the Cold War
1. Is Non-Democratic Trust Possible? The Case of Russia-China Relations and the Great Power Peace Marcin Kaczmarski 
2. Calculative Based Trust and the Formation of Trusting Relationships in International Relations Scott Edwards 
3. Mistrust amongst Democracies: Constructing US–India Insecurity during the Cold War Carina van de Wetering
4. Institution-based Trust, Leadership Style and President Carter’s Use of the Moscow–Washington Hotline Eszter Simon and Agnes Simon 
Part Two: Trust in Recent Years 
5. The Trust that never was: The Rupture of EU–Russia Relations over the Conflict in Ukraine Hiski Haukkala and Sinikukka Saari 
6. The Levels of Trust and the Trust-Peace Nexus: The Case of the United States-Egypt Relationship in the Post-"Arab Spring" Frame Ville Sinkkonen 
7. Mistrust within Trust: Finnish–Swedish Security Political Cooperation and the Ghosts of 1990 EEC Application Analogy Matti Pesu and Tapio Juntunen 
Conclusion Johanna Vuorelma, Hiski Haukkala and Carina van de Wetering

Biography

Hiski Haukkala, Faculty of Management, University of Tampere, Finland

Carina van de Wetering, Institute of Political Science, Leiden University, The Netherlands

Johanna Vuorelma, Network for European Studies, University of Helsinki, Finland