Introduction

This introduction presents an overview of key concepts discussed in the subsequent chapters of this book. Cooperation is an effective and efficient way to be more resilient in the face of threat. The book focuses on a type of factor analysis called Categorical Principal Component Analysis. It then examines the relationship between cooperation at the above noted two level of analysis using correlational analysis. The book further looks at links between the identified cooperation behaviors and strategies and the specific characteristics that make up the crisis setting. The data are from the Transboundary Crisis Management (TCM) Project and were developed by the author together with Margaret Hermann and Bruce Dayton. The book introduces case examples of cooperation in crises as seen through the lens of each of the perspectives informing the conceptualization of crisis cooperation in the study: international relations, public administration, and social psychology.