Trust is central to international politics. Trust-related theoretical arguments can be divided
between rationalist, cultural and psychological schools. We present concise reviews of these …

This article argues that the end of the Cold War can be told as a story of the development of
trust. Despite its centrality as a political concept, trust has only recently received focused …

Abstract In the 2012 Martin Wight Memorial Lecture, Nicholas Wheeler explored how trust
might be built between political leaders, drawing primarily on how the interpersonal …

The theme of trust takes up a somewhat ambiguous role in the study of international
relations (IR). Trust is widely recognized as a key component of human interaction and …

This introductory essay lays the groundwork for an inductive, relational approach to the
study of trust in international relations. It argues that the two main accounts of trust, affective …

Hiski Haukkalaa, Johanna Vuorelma* b and Carina van de Weteringc aInternational
Relations, School of Management, University of Tampere, Tampere, Finland; bDepartment …

When commentators look back on the state of trust in contemporary world politics, the words
of Charles Dickens in A tale of two cities will seem sadly appropriate:'It was the best of times …

Abstract Chapter 8 of The Psychology of Foreign Policy focuses on trust and mistrust,
moving from individuals to intersubjectivity and social psychology. Trust is intuitively integral …

How can trusting relationships be identified in international politics? The recent wave of
scholarship on trust in International Relations answers this question by looking for one or the …

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 …