Reading and Discussion Group
This discussion group grows out of the conviction that trust is a critically neglected area in International Relations theorising. Instead of focusing on the possibilities of trust, scholars have either been excessively preoccupied with the politics of mistrust or have reduced trust to game theory and rational choice approaches, arguably striping away the centrality of the emotional bases of trust. Though literature on trust appears in other disciplines, notably sociology, philosophy, psychology, and history, none of it has been systematically applied to the international level.
For further details, please contact the convenor; Jan Ruzicka jlr@aber.ac.uk.
Previous Meetings (2007 - 2010)
2010
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29 November |
Susan Shapiro (1987) "The Social Control of Impersonal Trust", The American Journal of Sociology, 93(3) 623-658 | |
| 8 November |
Aaron M. Hoffman (2002) "A Conceptualization of Trust in International Relations", European Journal of International Relations, 8(3) 375-401 | |
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29 October |
Talk by Paul Ingram, Director of B.A.S.I.C. | |
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18 October |
Charles A Kupchan (2010) "Enemies into Friends: How the United States can court its adversaries", Foreign Affairs, 120(2) 120-135. | |
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1 July |
Ruzicka, Jan (2010) "Reflections on the 2010 NPT review conference", Medicine, Conflict and Survival, 26(4): 256-267 |
Introduced by Dr Jan Ruzicka. |
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8 March |
Rathbun, Brian C. (2009), "It Takes all Types: social psychology, trust, and the international relations paradigm in our minds" International Theory 1(3) 345-380. | |
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22 February |
Ruzicka, Jan and Nicholas J. Wheeler (2010),"The Puzzle of Trusting Relationships in the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty", International Affairs, 86(1): 69-85 |
Discussant: Jan Ruzicka |
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25 January |
Presentation by Vincent Keating entitled 'Trust and Confidence in the Security Dilemma'. |
2009
| Date | Article | Notes |
| 7 December | Cameron, Lynne (2009) "Empathy - A Review", Working Paper for the Global Uncertainties Project. | Discussant: Dr Naomi Head |
| 5 November |
Talk by Marek Kohn, Fellow of the Centre for Applied Philosophy, Politics and Ethics at the University of Brighton, entitled "Trust & Distrust in Yesterday's & Tomorrow's Europe"
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| 19 October |
Presentation by Professor Nicholas Wheeler on trust-building in nuclear rivalries. |
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| 13 May |
Talk by by Professor Geoffrey Hosking, Emeritus Professor of Russian History at the School of Slavonic and East European Studies, University College London. Hosking discussed his paper; "The Credit Crunch - a Crisis of Trust".
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| 1 April |
Talk by Dr. Thierry Balzacq, Professor of Political Science at Namur University and the Centre D'Étude des Crises et des Conflits Internationaux. Balzacq discussed his paper; 'Trust: From Securitization to Desecuritizing, and Back'. Thierry Balzacq is a co-signatory of the Critical Security Studies in Europe manifesto and his recent works include "The Policy Tools of Securitization: Information Exchange, EU Foreign and Interior Policies" (Journal of Common Market Studies) and "The Three Faces of Securitization: Political Agency, Audience and Context" (European Journal of International Relations). |
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| 16 March | Tilly, Charles (2005) Trust and Rule, Cambridge: CUP. Chapter 1 | Discussant: Jan Ruzicka, PhD Candidate, Department of International Politics |
| 23 February |
Boyd-Judson, Lyn (2002) "Strategic Moral Diplomacy: Mandela, Qaddafi, and the Lockerbie Negotiation," Foreign Policy Analysis, Vol. 1, No. 1, 73-97: Available at http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1743-8594.2005.00004.x/abstract. |
Discussant: Chris Curran, PhD Candidate, Department of International Politics |
| 2 February |
Elias, Norbert (2000) The Civilizing Process: Sociogenetic and Psychogenetic Investigations, Oxford: Blackwell. Linklater recommends the following chapters: Preface |
Discussant: Woodrow Wilson Professor Andrew Linklater, Department of International Politics.
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2008
| Date | Article | Notes |
| 1 December | Hollis, Martin, Trust within Reason, Chapter 5 | Hard copies were available outside Keating's office (0.18, IP) |
| 10 November |
O'Neill, Onora "A Question of Trust", BBC Reith Lectures (2002) Avaliable here. Focused on Chapters 2 and 4; 'Trust and Terror' and 'Trust and Transparency' If you're interested in listening to a discussion between Marek Kohn and Onora O'Neill, please click here. |
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| 20 October | Kohn, Marek (2008), Self-Interest and the Common Good, (Oxford: Oxford University Press) | Topic: Trust and Self-Interest |
| 6 October | Lewis, J. David and Weigert, Andrew (1985), "Trust as Social Reality", Social Forces, 63(4), 967-85. | Topic: Trust as a Social Reality |
| 19 June | "From Fear to Nuclear Learning: Historical and Psychological Perspectives on Trust and Distrust in the Cuban Missile Crisis" Symposium | |
| 14 April |
Topic: Trust and Hospitality Presentation by Ali Bilgic, PhD candidate, Department of International Politics |
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| 3 March |
Herbert C. Kelman, “Building Trust among Enemies: The Central Challenge for International Conflict Resolution,”International Journal of Intercultural Relations Vol. 29, 2005, p. 639-650. Available here: http://www.wcfia.harvard.edu/faculty/hckelman/papers/hck_buildingtrust_IJIR.pdf |
Topic: Trust and Conflict Resolution |
| 12 February | Martin Hollis, Trust within Reason (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1998) Chapter 1. | Topic: Trust and Reason |
| 21 Januart | Andrew Kydd, “In America (We) Used to Trust: U.S. Hegemony and Global Cooperation,” Political Science Quarterly, Vol. 120, No. 4, (Winter 2005/2006) p. 619-636. | Topic: Trust and Hegemony |
2007
| Date | Article | Topic | Notes |
| 3 December | “Trust and Antitrust,” Ethics, Vol. 96, No. 2, 1986, pp. 231-260. | Trust in Philosophy | |
| 19 November |
Guido Möllering, “Leaps and Lapses of Faith: Exploring the Relationship Between Trust and Deception,” forthcoming in Brooke Harrington (ed.) Deception: From Ancient Empires to Internet Dating (Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2009). Available here: http://www.mpifg.de/people/gm/downloads/Mollering_Trust-Deception_070613.pdf |
Trust in Sociology | |
| 5 November |
Russell Hardin, Trust and Trustworthiness (New York: Russell Sage Foundation, 2004) Chapter 1, pp. 1-27. Available here: http://www.russellsage.org/publications/books/0-87154-341-9/chapter1_pdf |
Trust in Political Theory | |
| 15 October | Deborah Welch Larson, “Trust and Missed Opportunities In International Relations,” Political Psychology, Vol. 18, No. 3, 1997, pp. 701-734 | Trust in International Relations |