International crisis is defined by three perceived conditions in top decision-makers

Evidence

[A] crisis is a situation with three necessary and sufficient conditions deriving from a change in its external environment. All three conditions are perceptions held by the highest-level decision-makers: (1) a threat to basic values, with a simultaneous subsequent awareness of (2) finite time for response, and of the (3) high probability of involvement in military hostilities. (Brecher, Wilkenfeld, and Moser 1988, 2) But for rare exceptions (e. — Gary Goertz, Social Science Concepts, 243

Categorization

• XREF: Links to the operational-coding literature (COPDAB, ICB datasets) and to Jervis’s perception-based accounts of crisis decision-making.