"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...

"Explores a wide range of challenges facing the international community in reforming international institutions and global governance groups. Argues for reform of global governance groups, especially reconstituting the G8, and individual institutional reforms in the IMF, World Bank, and the United Nations and in global health and environmental governance"--Provided by publisher.