The security sector reform literature is increasingly turning towards the inclusion of non-state security providers, but the long-term patterns of political development to which such engagement might contribute remain underexplored. This article thus provides several lenses with which to understand the relationship between non-state security provision and political development. It first presents three perspectives (functionalism, political economy, and communitarianism) with which to understand the nature and behavior of non-state security providers. Second, it outlines five possible long-term trajectories of political formation and the role of non-state security providers in each. These discussions highlight the idea of hybridity, and the remainder of the paper argues that the concept can be usefully applied in (at least) two ways. The third section proposes that hybridity can help overcome longstanding but misleading conceptual binaries, while the fourth rearticulates hybridity as a dynamic developmental process – hybridization – that can be contrasted with security politics as the underlying logic by which security providers (both state and non-state) interact and change over time.

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混合秩序中的安全保障和政治形成

安全部门改革文献越来越多地转向纳入非国家安全提供者，但这种参与可能有助于政治发展的长期模式仍未得到充分探索。因此，本文提供了几个视角来理解非国家安全条款与政治发展之间的关系。它首先提出了三个视角（功能主义、政治经济学和社群主义），通过这些视角来理解非国家安全提供者的性质和行为。其次，它概述了政治形成的五个可能的长期轨迹以及非国家安全提供者在每个轨迹中的作用。这些讨论突出了混合的概念，本文的其余部分认为该概念可以（至少）以两种方式有效地应用。