13.12.2024 - 10:00

EAF Online Guest Lecture by Felix Berenskötter

Trust and Friendship in International Relations  |  Fri, December 13, 2024, 10–12 h CET  |  Online Lecture

Felix Berenskötter, PhD is Reader in International Relations in the Department of War Studies at King’s College, London.

Abstract:
This talk explores the concept of trust in international friendship. Trust is generally accepted as intrinsic to and, perhaps, the key feature of friendship. Yet precisely because of its centrality, and because international friendship is not a straightforward phenomenon, we need to think carefully about how we situate and ‘see’ trust in such a configuration. The talk approaches this task in three steps: (i) reviewing different ways trust can be conceptualised in general, highlighting its future-orientation, (ii) offering a reading that is intertwined with an ontology of international friendship as shared being in time, and (iii) linking the concept to observable expressions in international politics, namely practices of solidarity, the sharing of private information/secrets, and critique.

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