Bilgic, A.2016-02-082016-02-0820141035-7718http://hdl.handle.net/11693/26589In the discipline of international relations, the concept of trust has been theorised in two ways: the 'rationalist' approach and the 'normative' approach. This article aims to show that these approaches do not adequately reflect how trust operates in world politics and that trust provides a new way of understanding the identity-security nexus in international relations. It is argued that as actors learn to trust each other, this trust-learning process has a transformative effect on their definition of self-interests and identities. The elaborated understanding of trust in the security dilemma is operationalised in terms of the immigration security dilemma.EnglishIdentityImmigrationSecuritySecurity dilemmaTrustGeopoliticsImmigrationInternational relationsArticle10.1080/10357718.2013.8411201465-332X