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Identifying strategic partnership in globalization and international integration era (Part 1)
Identifying strategic partnership in globalization and international integration era (Part 1)
3/10/16
Formation and development of strategic
partnership
The idea of strategic partnership among
countries was initiated right in the “Cold War” time. However, it was just
mentioned in studies on special cooperation among countries, not a systematic
theory. Until the end of the 1980s, in a world of changes, scholars used the
notion of strategic partnership more to analyze relationships among countries
in the aspects of geopolitics, national interests; forms, contents, aims and
consequences of those relationships. By the end of the 1990s, the notion became
more popular when several countries used it as a type of “shield” to protect
their national security.
Today, strategic partnership is applied quite
popularly in international cooperations. It has appeared in various documents
on international cooperation, studies as well as in the media. Moreover, it is
used in business when companies establish a long-term cooperation to solve the
most important task in their restructuring and reform in the context of
globalization and international integration.
Criteria, characteristics and conditions
required to establish a strategic partnership
Any countríes trying to build a strategic
partnership with another country should set up criteria for this special
relationship. According to experts, that relationship must satisfy the following
basic criteria. First, countries trying to establish a strategic
partnership share mutual and strategically important targets, or even vital
interests. In this regard, there should be collaboration between parties with a
long-term plan and roadmap. One of the vital targets is to maintain security,
prosperity and status of each other in the international arena, of which
maintaining security and prosperity of each other is the core. Second, countries
should share common perceptions on targets and principles to develop strategic
partnership. Third, it is necessary to set up legal
foundations for shaping strategic partnership between the two countries,
clarifying the contents of cooperation and legal mechanisms to implement the
identified contents in strategic partnership. Fourth, it is
important to attach great importance to the demand for cooperation in the
fields of strategic importance on the basis of mutual interests. Fifth, one
country, which has advantages in some fields, should consider the interests of
the other, being ready to have concession and support its partner, even in case
of no certain benefits for its own.Sixth, parties should not have
discriminatory acts or issue an ultimatum towards each other. Seventh, it
is necessary to proactively build mutual conceptions on values based on the
political system of the partner.Eighth, the effectiveness of a strategic
partnership must be supported by political elites and social community, meeting
the vital demands of the people.
From the above-mentioned criteria, it is
possible to identify several basic features of a strategic partnership as
follows. First, a strategic partnership bears clarity,
transparency, and consistency especially in defining purposes, targets, tasks
and mutual benefits of countries. Second, that relationship
stays durable and stable.Third, a strategic partnership is diverse;
it could be applied into various fields of each country, such as economics,
politics, military, culture, science - technology, and education. Fourth, motives
and aims of each party in a strategic partnership are different from those in
other relationships among countries. Fifth, strategic
partnership exists not only in bilateral relations but also in global scope.
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Internationalization and globalization is an objective development trend of the era and, after all, is decided by the constant development of production forces.
International integration is a subjective behavior of countries and nations towards this objective trend.
Almost all countries, small and large, rich and poor alike, have to integrate themselves to seize development opportunities, while staying aware of the numerous challenges to be overcome during the international integration process. Vietnam is not an exception.
Vietnam is a part of the world and connected with the world’s evolution. In-depth understanding of the world situation is an indispensable condition for defining national tasks.
Integrating into the world, Vietnam will continue to address the core issue of making full use of external resources to serve national industrialization and modernization, while guaranteeing independence and self-reliance and contributing to the shared issues of the region and the world.
Vietnam's foreign policy: Fewer enemies, more friends
In order to maintain friendly relations with such a diverse array of foreign powers, the international experience at the head of the Communist Party has been enhanced.
Vietnam's push for more friends abroad is not inseparable from troubles at home.
Vietnam has demonstrated over a quarter of a century that it is competent and pragmatic in maintaining its political and economic relations abroad. Indeed, its policy of 'more friends and fewer enemies' appears to be strong.
Viet Nam is a friend and reliable partner of all countries in the international community, actively taking part in international and regional cooperation processes.
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