In this article, I examine the role security plays in creating a socioterritorial order in statebuilding policies. I argue that security contributes to the creation of center–periphery asymmetries, for example, through the portrayal of the center as threatened by a dangerous periphery or the periphery as disloyal and untrustworthy. In particular, I explore how security practices work in two distinct center–periphery figurations: in internal colonization, where a specific population, located within a dominant power, is subordinated; and in international intervention, where a society is internationally ruled. The article incorporates the literature on internal colonialism and international intervention from a critical security studies perspective to show how security functions as a mode of governing by creating specific center–periphery figurations in statebuilding. The overall aim is to provide a new theoretical perspective by intertwining critical security and postcolonial studies and to stimulate empirical research on the function of security as a principle of socioterritorial ordering.

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国家建设中的安全实践和中心-外围形象的产生

在本文中，我研究了安全在国家建设政策中创建社会领土秩序方面的作用。我认为安全会导致中心-外围不对称的产生，例如，通过将中心描述为受到危险外围的威胁或外围不忠诚和不值得信任。我特别探讨了安全实践如何在两种不同的中心 - 外围形象中发挥作用：在内部殖民中，处于支配地位的特定人群处于从属地位；在国际干预中，一个社会受到国际统治。这篇文章从批判性安全研究的角度结合了关于内部殖民主义和国际干预的文献，以展示安全如何通过在国家建设中创建特定的中心 - 边缘形象来作为一种治理模式发挥作用。总体目标是通过将批判性安全和后殖民研究交织在一起，提供一个新的理论视角，并激发关于安全作为社会领土秩序原则的功能的实证研究。