How do scenarios of dangerous futures imagined in the framework of the post-9/11 counterterrorism shape security institutions? Critical Security Studies (CSS)'s dominant answer is that state apparatus are significantly transformed by the use of new technologies of prediction that are very prolific in imagining potential risks. The present article questions this technologically determinist thesis. Introducing the notion of weak field in the study of pre-emption, it argues that the political sociology of transnational fields of power can help us in historicise and assess more precisely the impact of imagination over power and control in the pre-emptive era. The article analyses NATO's reaction to 9/11 as a case study. It shows how the fabrication of potential terrorist threats by NATO's practitioners, that served to justify the pre-emptive use of the collective self-defence clause of the Washington Treaty (Article 5), evolved into an ambiguous support for NATO's military policing of the Mediterranean basin and into its involvement in migration control.

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想象（在）安全：北约的集体自卫和 9/11 后地中海的军事警务

在 9/11 后反恐框架下想象的危险未来情景如何塑造安全机构？关键安全研究 (CSS) 的主要答案是，通过使用在想象潜在风险方面非常多产的新技术，国家机器发生了显着变化。本文对这一技术决定论论点提出质疑。在先发制人的研究中引入弱场的概念，认为跨国权力领域的政治社会学可以帮助我们历史化和更准确地评估先发制人时代想象对权力和控制的影响。本文以案例研究的形式分析了北约对 9/11 的反应。它展示了北约从业人员如何制造潜在的恐怖威胁，