But Fox's pledge to maintain Britain's ability to wage war unilaterally, cooperate with France while snubbing the EU's defence agency, cutting Whitehall staff and reforming wasteful procurement (again) does not sound like tough realism, especially when combined with Cameron's gimmicky "war cabinet" and national security adviser approach.
Hard as it is to imagine, revolutionary Iran continued to cooperate with Israel during much of the 1980s and 1990s despite the mutually bellicose rhetoric out of Tehran and Tel Aviv.
On Thursday, a Barclays spokesman said: "Barclays works closely with its regulators in all jurisdictions and will continue to cooperate with the New York attorney general.
There was an impulse towards supra-nationalism in the shape of membership in the European Union, where countries that had fought each other for centuries – notably France and Germany – agreed to cooperate in the new world of superpower blocs.
The one wedge that opens clear light between the two opposition leaders is their stated willingness to cooperate in an effort to defeat Harper.
"We will continue to cooperate fully with [the commission] and look forward to a successful resolution of the process," it said.
Dzhemilev said the Mejlis was split on whether to refuse to cooperate with the new government, but he thought it would have to compromise.
Detectives suspect that the farm, owned by local businessman John Fowler, could be where the robbers initially took the depot manager Colin Dixon and his wife and son, whom they kidnapped in order to force him to cooperate.
Zaragoza had said in a statement that it had "no knowledge of any circumstances connected to the investigation" but that it would "cooperate with any requests" made by the prosecutor.
He will cooperate in full with the standards commissioner's investigation".
Zuley, through a spokesperson, declined to cooperate with the Guardian's investigation, despite multiple requests.
