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Resolving the Trust Predicament: A Quantum Game-theoretic Approach

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  • Badredine Arfi

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Developing a good theoretical understanding of the role of trust in IR (such as in the events leading to the end of the Cold War) is still an open problem. Most game-theoretic studies of trust do not go beyond the limitations of an (ontologically) individualistic paradigm, thus assuming a pre-defined set of individual strategies. Yet, it is a fact that the predicament of collective trust is empirically resolved in many situations. This paper suggests a new game-theoretic approach—Quantum Game Theory (QGT)—to understand and explain how the predicament of trust is resolved. In a quantum game of trust the actors play the game by simultaneously collectively reconstructing the strategic environment in such a way as to become mutually strategically entangled. Quantum strategic entanglement allows trust to emerge between the two actors without assuming a need for signaling, prior “contractâ€\x9D type of arrangement, or any form of third-party communication. The paper develops and solves such a model of quantum game of trust Copyright Springer 2005

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  • Badredine Arfi, 2005. "Resolving the Trust Predicament: A Quantum Game-theoretic Approach," Theory and Decision, Springer, vol. 59(2), pages 127-174, September.
    • Handle: RePEc:kap:theord:v:59:y:2005:i:2:p:127-174
    DOI: 10.1007/s11238-005-8632-4
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