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In previous work on two level security, we have analyzed the consequences of the strategies states pursue when faced with multiple threats in light of resource and other constraints. To deal with the problems created by substitutability, we have conceptualized those strategies in a general way as either a [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In recent years controversy has surrounded analyses of foreign threat due to three principal deficiencies: (1) regarding threat identification, major distortions exist in the framing of the existence or nonexistence of threat; (2) regarding threat coverage, a mismatch exists between diversified real-world post-Cold War dangers and prevailing notions of threat; and (3) regarding threat assessment, significant conceptual problems exist in the gauging of threat severity. In response to these problems, this study introduces a target-centered conceptual framework for analyzing foreign threat that aims to enhance its analytical coherence and explanatory value and ultimately to increase the chances of coping with it successfully. ..PAT.-Unpublished Manuscript [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]