Trust in international relations : rationalist, constructivist, and psychological approaches / edited by Hiski Haukkala, Carina van de Wetering, and Johanna Vuorelma.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction : approaching trust and mistrust in international relations / Hiski Haukkala, Carina van de Wetering and Johanna Vuorelma -- Understanding the trust/distrust nexus between the United States and Egypt / Ville Sinkkonen -- Trust as narrative : representing Turkey in Western foreign policy analysis / Johanna Vuorelma -- Mistrust amongst democracies : constructing US-India insecurity during the Cold War / Carina van de Wetering -- The role of rational trust in ASEAN's creation / Scott Edwards -- The cycle of mistrust in EU-Russia relations / Hiski Haukkala and Sinikukka Saari -- Mistrust within trust : Finnish-Swedish defence cooperation and the ghosts of the 1990 EC application incident / Tapio Juntunen and Matti Pesu -- Taking stock of the study of trust in international relations / Tuomas Forsberg.

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 psychological dimension. Trust in International Relations explores trust through these different lenses using case studies to analyse the relative strengths and weaknesses of different approaches. The case studies cover relations between:

United States and India
ASEAN and Southeast Asian countries
Finland and Sweden
USA and Egypt
The European Union and Russia
Turkey's relations with the West
This book provides insights with real-world relevance in the fields of crisis and conflict management, and will be of great interest for students and scholars of IR, security studies and development studies who are looking to develop a more sophisticated understanding of how different theories of trust can be used in different situations.
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