Through acculturation, socialization and individual experience, international actors develop a lattice of attitudes. These are clustered around an actor's superordinate goal, delineate his sentiments, and define his role dispositions. Attitudes are goal and means potentials transformed into dispositions. Their development structures the conflict space. The attitudes of international actors make possible the structure of conflict between them.
Awareness transforms potential opposition into opposing dispositions.
It creates the structure of conflict. Awareness is the first theoretical element 3 in this structure, the second level of latent conflict. The structure of conflict is the disposition or tendency to conflict . And these distances reflect vector forces in the psychological space of an actor. They define latent motivations toward behavior.