Introduction : approaching trust and mistrust in international relations / Hiski Haukkala, Carina van de Wetering, and Johanna Vuorelma -- Understanding the trust-distrust nexus between the United States and Egypt / Ville Sinkkonen -- Trust as narrative : representing Turkey in Western foreign policy analysis / Johanna Vuorelma -- Mistrust amongst democracies : constructing US-India insecurity during the Cold War / Carina van de Wetering -- The role of rational trust in ASEAN's creation / Scott Edwards -- The cycle of mistrust in EU-Russia relations / Hiski Haukkala and Sinikukka Saari -- Mistrust within trust : Finnish-Swedish defence cooperation and the ghosts of the 1990 EC application incident / Tapio Juntunen and Matti Pesu -- Taking stock of the study of trust in international relations / Tuomas Forsberg.