This article advances a new account of security as an intensely relational and ontologically entangled phenomenon that does not exist prior to, nor independently of, its intra-action with other phenomena and agencies. Security's ‘entanglement’ is demonstrated through an analysis of the protracted security concerns engendered by ‘dangerous’ scientific experiments performed with lethal H5N1 flu viruses. Utilising methodological approaches recently developed in the field of Science and Technology Studies (STS), the article explicates the intensely ‘co-productive’ dynamics at play between security and science in those experiments, and which ultimately reveal security to be a deeply relational phenomenon continuously emerging out of its engagement with other agencies. Recovering this deeper ontological entanglement, the article argues, necessitates a different approach to the study of security that does not commence by fixing the meaning and boundaries of security in advance. Rather, such an approach needs to analyse the diverse sites, dynamics, and processes through which security and insecurity come to intra-actively materialise in international relations. It also demands a fundamental reconsideration of many of the discipline's most prominent security theories. They are not merely conceptual tools for studying security, but crucial participants in its intra-active materialisation.

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纠缠的安全：科学、联合生产和内部主动不安全

本文提出了一种新的安全解释，将安全视为一种密切相关且在本体论上纠缠不清的现象，这种现象在其与其他现象和机构的内部作用之前并不存在，也不独立于它。通过对致命 H5N1 流感病毒进行的“危险”科学实验所产生的长期安全问题的分析，证明了安全的“纠缠”。利用最近在科学和技术研究 (STS) 领域开发的方法论方法，本文解释了在这些实验中安全与科学之间的强烈“共同生产”动态，并最终揭示安全是一种持续不断的深层关系现象脱离与其他机构的接触。文章认为，恢复这种更深层次的本体论纠缠，需要一种不同的方法来研究安全性，这种方法不是通过预先确定安全性的含义和边界来开始的。相反，这种方法需要分析安全和不安全在国际关系中内部积极体现的不同地点、动态和过程。它还要求从根本上重新考虑该学科中许多最突出的安全理论。它们不仅是研究安全性的概念工具，而且是其内部活动实现的关键参与者。以及安全和不安全在国际关系中积极体现的过程。它还要求从根本上重新考虑该学科中许多最突出的安全理论。它们不仅是研究安全性的概念工具，而且是其内部活动实现的关键参与者。以及安全和不安全在国际关系中积极体现的过程。它还要求从根本上重新考虑该学科中许多最突出的安全理论。它们不仅是研究安全性的概念工具，而且是其内部活动实现的关键参与者。