Great Power Loneliness: Reflections on the 160th Bergedorf Roundtable

... former’s relative decline may might as well be delayed for some time. But how do regional and global powers stop driving away their neighbors? Is it at all possible not to fall into this trap? This was a question often asked on the sidelines of the Bergedorf Roundtable regarding Russia and the post-Soviet space. Perhaps trust was the recurring concept that surfaced in this context. Trust is essentially an a priori belief in the good nature of one’s intentions. It can be intuitive, say, for ...