Gotowość do współpracy strategicznej: konwergencja celów i ról strategicznych

Abstract

Seeking to disentangle what drives the cooperation willingness between would-be partners, this chapter advances two main assumptions that hypothesize the cause-effect relationship between the converging strategic goals and strategic roles, on the one hand, and the scope of cooperation willingness, on the other. It also theoretically contextualizes, conceptualizes as well as operationalizes the main three variables hypothesized. Based on the foreign-policy manifestos analysis, the chapter presents an original approach to the study of strategic goals and salient policy issues that actors seek to pursue, or tackle, in their external relations. an approached towards estimating the salience of foreign-policy goals and issues as well as the scope, direction and degree of their convergence is developed within the chapter as well. data-intensive matrices of indicators and measures of cooperation willingness, strategic goals and roles convergence accomplish the effort in theorizing a testable causal relationship within this dimension of strategic partnerships phenomenon.