Trust in International Cooperation: International Security Institutions, Domestic Politics and American Multilateralism (Cambridge Studies in International Relations)
By Professor Brian C. Rathbun.
Description
Trust in International Cooperation challenges conventional wisdoms concerning the part which trust plays in international cooperation and the origins of American multilateralism. Rathbun questions rational institutionalist arguments, demonstrating that trust precedes rather than follows the creation of international organizations. Drawing on social psychology, he shows that individuals placed in the same structural circumstances show markedly different propensities to cooperate based on their beliefs about the trustworthiness of others. Linking this finding to political psychology, Rathbun ...
ISBN(s)
1107014719, 9781107014718
