Trustworthiness as Reputation in International Cooperation-building: Implications for US–China Relations

Intuitively, reputation matters in daily life. Thus, it is unsurprising that scholars and statesmen have long held that reputation must also matter in international relations (IR) since Pericles. Yet, while reputation, especially reputation for resolve in (international) conflict, has enjoyed renewed attention in the past decade or so, few in-depth studies of reputation in (international) cooperation exist, other than a few studies on reputation in alliance and treaty compliance.

Inken von Borzyskowski

Inken von Borzyskowski is Professor of International Relations at the Department of Politics and International Relations, and Fellow at St Catherine’s College. She received her PhD from the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 2014. Before joining Oxford, she spent four years at University College London, four years at Florida State University, a post-doc year at Free University Berlin, and an exchange year at Duke University.

Maxim Chupilkin

Maxim is pursuing a DPhil in International Relations at the University of Oxford and works as an Associate Economist at the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development. His primary research interests are in geopolitics and international political economy. For his DPhil, he is investigating the granular mechanisms of wartime trade.

Eli Harris-Trent

Eli is a second-year MPhil candidate in international relations at Nuffield College, Oxford. His research explores the relationship between art and peace in post-conflict societies. His MPhil thesis, supervised by Dr Samuel Ritholtz, uses ethnographic methods to examine the everyday peacebuilding practices of ex-combatant artists in Colombia. His project incorporates ideas from many disciplines, including art theory, literary criticism, and anthropology.

Jeremy Siow

I am a Postdoctoral Research Fellow in Quantitative Political Science. My research focuses on education politics and policy, as well as the drivers of intergroup discrimination based on ethnicity, gender, and immigrant status. Methodologically, I utilise a range of causal inference techniques to evaluate how major policy reforms influence various individual-level political outcomes, including political participation and democratic attitudes. A majority of my empirical work centres on Malaysia and Singapore.

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