Cooperation sustained by despotism dissolves when the despotism ends

Evidence

Nevertheless, even if it is conceded that the government of the ROK has in this way overcome what might otherwise have been an economically debilitating vicious circle, it cannot be said that it has created trust. On the contrary. And it is indeed perfectly possible that if and when the present pattern of rule changes in the country, as Chun Doohwan intends it to do in 1988, existing cooperations and the successful economic organization which depends on them could dissolve or even collapse. The despotism could turn out not to have broken the circle after all, or simply to have instituted another. — Diego Gambetta, Trust - Making and Breaking Cooperative…, 1655

Categorization

• XREF: Directly connects to the reader’s Hardin/Luhmann synthesis: coercion-based observable constraints produce contingent cooperation, not genuine trust — the distinction between order and trust. — connects to: An alliance persists when its founding enemy vanishes. — Robert B. McCalla, NATO’s persistence after the cold war, 57; Alliances can persist and expand purposes after their founding enemy disappears — Robert B. McCalla, NATO’s persistence after the cold war, 60; the MOC “The Enemy-Making Machine: How Ourselves, the True, and Every Other Are Built from War”