Trusting Enemies

He is also co-editor of the Prestigious series Cambridge Studies in International Relations. . 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. About the Author Nicholas J. Wheeler

The author argues that to understand how enemies cooperate, we need to focus on the potential for building trusting relationships between state leaders. How can two enemies transform their relationship into a cooperative one? The starting point for this book is that the discipline of International Relations has not done a good job of answering this question, and the reason for this is that the concept of trust - and the possibility of building new trusting relationships between enemies - has been marginalized by the discipline. 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 relationsh

Wheeler is Professor of International Relations and Director of the Institute for Conflict, Cooperation, and Security at the University of Birmingham. . Nicholas J. 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