Trusting Enemies
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| Rating | : | 4.47 (925 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0199696470 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 256 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2014-12-09 |
| Language | : | English |
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His publications include Special Responsibilities: Global Problems and American Power (with Mlada Bukovansky, Ian Clark, Robyn Eckersley, Christian Reus-Smit, and Richard Price, CUP 2012), The Security Dilemma: Fear, Cooperation, and Trust in World Politics (with Ken Booth, Palgrave MacMillan, 2008), and Saving Strangers: Humanitarian Intervention in International Society (OUP, 2000), which was shortlisted for the International Studies Association's Best Book of the Decade award. Wheeler is Professor of International Rel
His publications include Special Responsibilities: Global Problems and American Power (with Mlada Bukovansky, Ian Clark, Robyn Eckersley, Christian Reus-Smit, and Richard Price, CUP 2012), The Security Dilemma: Fear, Cooperation, and Trust in World Politics (with Ken Booth, Palgrave MacMillan, 2008), and Saving Strangers: Humanita
Nicholas Wheeler argues for a new level of analysis - the interpersonal level - and shows how the building of trust between leaders changes the possibilities for cooperation between states. Previous theorizing about trust-building in the discipline of International Relations has focused on the state and individual levels. The book argues that it is forging personal relationships of trust across the enemy divide that hold out the best chance of breaking down the 'enemy images' that fuel security competition. The book represents the most authoritative assessment to date of trust research in International Relations and it develops a theory that explains how interpersonal trusting relationships become possible at the highest levels of diplomacy; relationships that in transforming enemy images reconstitute the possibilities of state action in conflict situations.. The author argues that to understand how enemies c