Strategic Partnership, Governance Capacity, and the Political Economy of Security Cooperation
By Dr. Val. Opaluwa Ejeh. Conceptual Framing Security cooperation between states is best understood through the lens of strategic institutionalism, which emphasizes that durable partnerships depend not merely on shared threats but on compatible governance capacities and credible institutions (Keohane, 1984; North, 1990). Within this framework, external security assistance succeeds only when domestic administrative systems…