%0 Journal Article
%T Security Practices and the Production of Center每Periphery Figurations in Statebuilding
%A Thorsten Bonacker
%J Alternatives
%@ 2163-3150
%D 2018
%R 10.1177/0304375418821479
%X 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每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每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每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
%K security
%K statebuilding
%K intervention
%K internal colonialism
%K center每periphery
%U https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/0304375418821479