Living in an Age of Mistrust

Andrew I. Yeo is Associate Professor of Politics, Director of Asian Studies, and a Fellow at the Institute for Policy Research & Catholic Studies at The Catholic University of America. He is the author of Activists, Alliances, and Anti-U.S. Base Protests (Cambridge 2011), and is completing two book manuscripts: the first on the evolution of East Asia’s regional architecture, and a second co-edited book on North Korean human rights and transnational advocacy. He is the recipient of Catholic University’s Outstanding Young Faculty Research Award in 2013 and is a term member of the Council on Foreign Relations. He received his Ph.D. from Cornell University.Matthew N. Green is Associate Professor of Politics a Fellow at the Institute for Policy Research and Catholic Studies at The Catholic University of America. Dr. Green is author of Underdog Politics: The Minority Party in the U.S. House of Representatives and The Speaker of the House: A Study of Leadership, both published by Yale University Press. He is also a coauthor of Washington 101: An Introduction to the Nation’s Capital. He served as President of the National Capital Area Political Science Association in 2015-16. He has a BA from the University of California, Santa Cruz, a MA and MPhil from Yale University, and a Ph.D. from Yale University.

• PrefacePart I: Foundations of Trust1. Trust: An Analytical Framework for Contemporary Policy Problems2. Thin or Thick? Reflections on Trust from a Catholic Social Thought Perspective 3. Families and Trust-building in Infants and Children Part II: Trust and Minority Groups4. A Mimetic Perspective on Trust5. Trust and Minority Groups: The Challenge of Diversity6. Cascading Trust Among Ethnic Groups: Lesson from Contemporary Hispanic Migration Part III: Trust and Institutions7. How Mistrust within Government Can Create Mistrust Without8. Trust and Organized Labor in the United States: A Genealogy9. The Collapse of Trust in the European UnionPart IV: Trust, Diplomacy, and Peace-Building 10.Trust and Catholic Peacebuilding in Ghana11.Two-Level Trust Games in Japan-South Korea Relations 12. Trust within NATO

'Trust is thought to be the glue that holds society, domestic and international, together. But we have reason to think that trust is declining. This book offers thoughts by a remarkable variety of scholars on the role of trust in different collectivities, institutions and relationships and what to expect if it starts to fade. This is an excellent example of interdisciplinary collaboration on crucial social problems.' - Brian Rathbun, University of Southern California'Covering a broad range of political questions and contexts, this interdisciplinary collection admirably coheres around a concept of trust that is relational and thus variable by time, location, and political context. Demonstrating the challenges that declining trust poses locally, nationally, and internationally, Living in an Age of Mistrust merits attention from students, scholars, and anyone interested in nurturing the bonds of trust to address problems of policymaking, community building, and international cooperation.' - Douglas Harris, Loyola University Maryland