Identifying strategic partnership in globalization and international integration era (Part 2 and end)
3/10/16
Several typical types of strategic partnership
worldwide
According to experts in international studies,
due to the multilateralization and diversification in international relations,
together with types of common strategic partnerships, such as strategic
partnership, comprehensive strategic partnership, selective strategic
partnership, there appear a number of specific strategic partnerships which
should be exactly analyzed and indentified in reality.
1. Impacted by increasingly deepened and
broadened globalization and international integration, one country could
establish strategic partnership with several other countries to form “special
strategic partners” so as to pursue special national interests. For instance,
Russia - India relationship and Vietnam - Russia relationship are all
identified as special strategic partnerships or strategic partnerships of
special nature.
2. Strategic partnership does not exclude the
alliance or the relationship among allies. Typically when the two-pillar world
order collapsed, the former socialist countries seemed to hesitate to mention
the matter of “military alliance” or “ally”, only the U.S. and European
countries continued to maintain such relationships, i.e. the North Atlantic
Treaty Organization (NATO), the military alliances between the U.S. and Japan,
the U.S. and South Korea. Therefore, countries could include “military
alliance” in “strategic partnership”. Which means they do not need to sign a
military alliance treaty to avoid confrontation but possibly highlight special
nature of the relationship.
3. In the modern world, the forming conditions
and the interdependence among states in international relations are increasing.
Thus, a country, no matter how great its potential, strength, natural
resources, and development level are, is influenced by its interdependent and
complex relations with other countries. Similarly, no countries (no matter how
great their economic, military strength is) are able to independently resolve
global pressing issues but to rely on a close international cooperation. Under
that condition, every country should adapt itself quickly to the new
international environment by combining the former approaches with the new ones
to key matters in international relations. Hence, the signing of various
strategic partnerships, including extensive, connective strategic partnerships
among countries, contributes to forming a new world order which might be called
“multi-partner world order” or “network world order”.
However, people also believe that in addition
to strategic partnerships that encourage the development of each country,
region and the world, there remain a number of strategic partnerships being
used by several countries to make their partners dependent to compete for
geopolitical and geostrategic benefits. Therefore, the identification of strategic
partnership among countries is a matter of paramount importance drawing a lot
of interest from many countries in the world.
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