title: Analysis Paralysis: Threat Perception and Incohesion, Nato
abstract: Current international relations scholarship argues that increased threat perception results in increased alliance cohesion, but historical evidence demonstrates that alliances, when facing increasing threat, may experience a decrease in cohesion.Under what condition do these decreases in cohesion occur?This dissertation seeks to answer this puzzle by looking at a novel level of analysis and uses the alliance as an actor in examining incohesion.The dissertation argues that alliance cohesion only 