The phrase "preserve cooperation" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it when you are referring to the need to maintain an existing collaboration. For example: "We must strive to preserve cooperation between our departments to ensure the continued success of our company."
You might think you need to preserve cooperation to maximize your leverage over your interlocutor, but if you always favor preserving cooperation, the other side comes to believe that you will never use that leverage -- at which point the leverage evaporates.
These results suggest that a balanced duo of learning and innovation may help to preserve cooperation during the re-organization of real-world networks, and may play a prominent role in the evolution of self-organizing, complex systems.
The French government has sought to calm diplomatic tensions over the bill, however, concerned with preserving cooperation with Turkey on issues including the violence in Syria and the Iranian nuclear program.
The more U.S.-Korea-Japan cooperation plays a unique role in isolating North Korea, for example, the more strategists in Korea will want to preserve that cooperation.
We superimpose government on such a pre-civil society when it grows large and prosperous; only then do we need to use political power to enforce these rules of justice in order to preserve social cooperation.
Another explanation for these behavioral differences is that average adolescents might have low levels of trust in their group and that they did not expect preserved high cooperation, as demonstrated by significantly decreased cooperation following trials with high rates of cooperation, when they did not benefit from free-riding (condition III).
A Woman Under the Influence was preserved in cooperation with Faces Distribution Corp. from the original 35mm color negative and original 35mm fullcoat magnetic soundtrack.
They had to hand in the card face-down, to preserve anonymity of cooperation.
So here's the question: Will Mr. Obama gloss over the reality of what's happening, and try to preserve the appearance of cooperation?
Group life is mutually advantageous only if cheating can be restrained sufficiently to preserve the benefits of cooperation.
White House officials defended the decision as necessary to preserve the chance of cooperation with Turkey, a NATO ally, on Middle Eastern conflicts.
