This paper explores the question of what drives proxy alignment in war and argues that current proxy war scholarship needs further thinking to go beyond focusing on the principal–agent theory and individual actors’ motivation analysis. Rather, there is a need to look at the generative mechanisms of proxy alignment as a process that constitutes patterns of friend–enemy relations. The paper argues securitization patterns from domestic to regional and international levels drive actors to re-evaluate their positions and define their enemies and friends. This is a process of securitization alignment and confluence, which serves as a generative mechanism for proxy alignment in a conflict. Securitization alignment is based on a convergence of securitizations by different actors that create a friend–enemy dynamic and convergence of security interests between actors. The confluence of securitizations from the domestic level to regional and beyond also connects actors across different levels to be in alignment and impact the conflict.

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重新思考国际关系中的代理战争理论：对委托代理理论的批判性分析

本文探讨了在战争中推动代理人结盟的问题，并认为当前的代理人战争学术需要进一步思考，以超越关注委托代理理论和个体行动者的动机分析。相反，有必要将代理对齐的生成机制视为构成敌友关系模式的过程。该论文认为，从国内到地区和国际层面的证券化模式促使参与者重新评估他们的立场并定义他们的敌人和朋友。这是一个证券化对齐和汇合的过程，它是冲突中代理对齐的生成机制。证券化协调是基于不同行为体的证券化趋同，从而创造了敌友动态和行为体之间安全利益的趋同。从国内层面到区域及其他层面的证券化融合也将不同层面的行为者联系起来，以协调一致并影响冲突。