This article applies the concept of frontier to analytically understand the forms of border governance that are developing in a former combat zone after the signing of a ceasefire agreement between the Myanmar government and the Karen National Union (KNU). In particular, it explores border governance through the lens of judicial interventions, moral ordering, and control of crime. Based on ethnographic fieldwork in 2016–2018, it shows how a Karen-populated area changed from being a military combat zone to an area that is the target of civilian state-making efforts by both the KNU and the Myanmar state. These efforts intermingle and compete, and yet each form of state-making remains incomplete and contested. This has resulted in pluralized authorities and partly overlapping forms of what I conceptualize as ‘frontier border governance’. With its focus on two competing state-making actors, the article adds new insights to the burgeoning literature on frontiers, which predominantly focuses on a single expansionary state.

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边境治理：停火后克伦村的有争议和多元权力

本文运用边境的概念，分析理解缅甸政府与克伦民族联盟（KNU）签署停火协议后在前战区发展的边境治理形式。特别是，它通过司法干预、道德秩序和犯罪控制的视角来探索边境治理。基于 2016-2018 年的民族志田野调查，它展示了克伦族聚居区如何从军事战区转变为克伦民族联盟和缅甸政府共同打造平民国家的目标地区。这些努力相互交织并相互竞争，但每种形式的国家制定仍然不完整且存在争议。这导致了多元化的权力和部分重叠的形式，我将其概念化为“边境边境治理”。