economic cooperation
Nations working together
Economic cooperation is coordinated action between nations, organizations, or groups to achieve shared financial or commercial goals.
It encompasses trade agreements, joint development projects, and monetary partnerships: The treaty established economic cooperation between the two countries.
The term often appears in formal contexts—names of international bodies, diplomatic statements, policy documents.
- cooperationJoint action toward shared aims
- economic integrationMerging separate national markets
- common marketIntegrated trading zone
- free trade areaRegion without internal tariffs
- tariffsTaxes on imports
customs union · development bank · trade blocs · most favored nation · foreign aid · aid package · joint ventures · NAFTA · bilateral agreements · cross-border trade · ASEAN · trade deals · global supply chains · fair trade · trade partnership · import regulations · trade agreements · European Union
- foreign policydiplomacy, diplomatic negotiations, sanctions, containment, deterrence
- Global Economicsfree trade, economic development, trade pacts, economic growth, trade blocs
- Pacific tradetrade routes, Pacific Rim, ASEAN, cargo ships, opium trade
- ComeconUSSR, Soviet Union, member states, socialist bloc, Poland
- ECOWASNigeria, Ghana, Senegal, Mali, Niger
- Southeast AsiaVietnam, Thailand, Cambodia, Laos, Indonesia
economic cooperationeconomic warfare
Hostile financial statecraft
trade war · economic competition · economic sanctions · mercantilism · tariff wars
economic cooperationeconomic isolation
Severing external trade ties
economic nationalism · protectionism · isolationism · trade barriers · decoupling