"sustained cooperation" is correct and usable in written English.
You could use it to describe a situation where two or more entities are consistently working together over a period of time. For example, you could write "The companies have established a successful partnership through sustained cooperation over the past 10 years."
"The findings suggest that a serotonin deficit might impair sustained cooperation," says Rogers.
And what's going to be good about that is not just sustained cooperation, but sustained cooperation without the use of outside payments such as contracts or the mafia or whatever.
"It is impossible to succeed against terrorism unless we have secured the continuing, sustained cooperation of many nations," Mr. Gore said.
Illegal calls that scam consumers are a major problem, and it will take sustained cooperation between government and industry to turn the tide.
So what Patrick's saying is, it's all very well to say we're sustaining cooperation in the first period here, but the way in which we sustained cooperation was by going along with, as it were, the punishment tomorrow.
A Russian government that feels that its U.S. counterpart is secretly rooting for its overthrow is not going to offer sustained cooperation in the security and economic dimensions of the relationship.
The problem with this hypothesis is that it requires inequality: mutualism sustains cooperation only when cooperators gain higher returns than others.
And last time we looked at a game played twice, it was Prisoner's Dilemma, and we noticed that we couldn't sustain cooperation because in the last stage people weren't going to cooperate and hence in the first stage people weren't going to cooperate.
This paper addresses the network design issue using cooperative game theory, which permits to study ways to enforce and sustain cooperation among users.
That is a way of sustaining cooperation.
It might be able to enable us to sustain cooperation.
