Abstract

This paper discusses interventions by Max Weber in order to consider how sociological understandings of societal differentiation – most importantly, between the state and the financial economy – can be framed in terms of ‘securitization’ as proposed by critical security studies (CSS). I engage with relevant IR and IPE literature in two ways. First, I refer to IR approaches to securitization, which relate their arguments to theories of societal differentiation – for instance, invoking ‘sectors’ or ‘fields’ of securitization – to draw attention to a sociological imagination that is operative in critical security studies. Second, I use IPE literature on the ‘security/finance nexus’ to consider how the entanglement of security and financial considerations, priorities and agendas in different historical sites and institutional contexts provides insights for reconceptualizing the distinction between state and financial economy. I then reflect on the ways that understandings of societal differentiation might provide a triangulating moment, whereby the interrelation between security and finance can be addressed as a shared ground, not only for IPE and IR and their genealogies but also for that of sociological theory.

摘要

本文讨论了马克斯·韦伯的干预措施，以考虑社会学对社会分化的理解——最重要的是，国家和金融经济之间的分化——如何可以按照关键安全研究 (CSS) 提出的“证券化”来构建。我以两种方式参与相关的 IR 和 IPE 文献。首先，我提到证券化的国际关系方法，这些方法将他们的论点与社会分化理论联系起来——例如，援引证券化的“部门”或“领域”——以引起人们对在批判性安全研究中有效的社会学想象的关注。其次，我使用关于“安全/财务关系”的 IPE 文献来考虑安全和财务考虑如何纠缠在一起，不同历史遗址和制度背景中的优先事项和议程为重新概念化国家和金融经济之间的区别提供了见解。然后，我思考了对社会分化的理解可能会提供一个三角关系的方式，即安全和金融之间的相互关系可以作为一个共同的基础来解决，不仅适用于 IPE 和 IR 及其谱系，而且适用于社会学理论。