Trust in International Relations

Bibliographic Data

ID19972959
AuthorsBrian C Rathbun (0000-0002-3270-9781, University of Southern California, corresponding author)
EditorsEric M Uslaner
Year2017
Publication date2017-08-10
Open AccessNo
TypeBOOK
VenueOxford Handbook of Social and Political Trust (SOURCE_BOOK)
PublisherOxford University Press (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1093/oxfordhb/9780190274801.013.31
OpenAlexW2785463746
ISBN9780190274801
LanguageEN
Citations received8

The importance of trust in international relations has recently become the subject of a vibrant new agenda of research. However, as this paper shows, trust has always implicitly been at the center of international relations theory. Realism, rationalism and constructivism conceive of trust differently, with enormous substantive implications. After establishing how different understandings about the type and degree of trust that prevail in international relations help structure core debates in the discipline, this paper then turns to showing the role that trust plays in diplomacy and multilateral cooperation. Trust seems necessary for the creation of large multilateral institutions in international relations as well as value-creating diplomacy that allows for win-win outcomes

Constructivism (international relations) · Diplomacy · Epistemology · International relations · International relations theory · Political science · Public relations · Rationalism · Realism · Sociology · Subject (documents) · Value (mathematics) · Computer Science · Conflict Management and Negotiation · Law · Philosophy

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