Interface Stewardship in Federated Alliance Governance: Coordination Without Control in NATO’s Agency Architecture
This article addresses the structural coordination problem common to NATO’s agency architecture and every federated system where alignment must be achieved without the authority to compel it. The argument is not that NATO is broken. The argument is that the coordination challenge is structural, that it produces predictable failure modes, and that those failure modes have identifiable solutions that do not require hierarchical integration to work.
