This is the consolidated and updated version of "NATO Consensus as Ceremony: How the Coordination Architecture Fragments While Functioning." It is the current reading of the same study; the 14 April 2026 sealed preprint, together with its cryptographic evidence bundle, remains the earlier version of this record, preserved unchanged as the time-stamped draft. The analysis applies the Narrative Power (NP) proof to NATO's coordination architecture across seven dimensions, three narrative instances, and the scientific canon of the social sciences. It diagnoses NATO's coordination architecture as persistently incoherent across all seven dimensions, partially buffered by managed decoupling and institutional redundancy. The study sets out seven structural findings: the three-layer configuration conflict, the dispositif paradox, the normative cascade (Purpose → Values → Legitimacy), the time-compression meta-constraint, the T4 architectural-completeness asymmetry, the multi-speed security community, and the sender-amplification mechanism. The data cut-off is 8 April 2026; the documented record of the subsequent window (9 April to 11 May 2026) is carried as a falsification test, and the stated falsifiers were not realised. This version re-anchors the study to the finalised NP derivation, "Narrative Power: How Does Durable Coordinated Power Emerge?" (Zenodo DOI 10.5281/zenodo.20267055; first published 23 February 2026). Every structural reference now resolves against the frozen, externally deposited proof, including its numeric section scheme and its sedimented-instantiation apparatus. The substantive diagnosis, the seven findings, and the 8 April 2026 data cut-off are unchanged from the sealed draft; the revision concerns citation integrity and consistency, not analytical content. The cryptographic evidence model is unchanged from the earlier version. The artefact was sealed using DURCHD8-controlled signing and timestamping infrastructure. Because the signing CA, TSA, and publication infrastructure are operated by the author's organisation, the cryptographic evidence is provided as provenance evidence and integrity evidence, not as independent third-party proof of priority. This Zenodo publication is a companion to the consolidated artefact and its evidence bundle. The 14 April 2026 sealed version, with its evidence bundle, remains separately citable as the prior version.
Martin Sauer (Tue,) studied this question.