This Special Issue questions the problem of international interventions’ persistence and multidimensionality by asking what makes interventions still relevant and for whom. In this introduction, we advance a dialectical understanding of interventions to study their diverse modalities and enduring mechanisms of order-making, with specific attention to space, time, and scale. We elaborate on Laura Doyle's interimperial method to highlight interventions' relational, transformative, and durable aspects. We interpret interventions as coconstituted by diverse, overlapping, and contradictory rationales and modalities. We stress the intertwined histories and practices of interventions as integral components of colonial modernity in relation to empires, imperialism, and their contemporary rearticulations. As a method, we identify three key historical processes for a dialectical understanding of intervention: the coformation of interventions’ state-building, economic development, and cultural practices; the coproduction of institutions and infrastructural systems; and the cumulative accretion of interventions’ infrastructures and imaginaries.

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国际干预的尺度、空间和时间的辩证法

本期特刊通过询问是什么使干预措施仍然具有相关性以及对谁而言，对国际干预措施的持久性和多维性问题提出了质疑。在这篇引言中，我们推进了对干预措施的辩证理解，以研究其不同的模式和持久的秩序制定机制，特别关注空间、时间和规模。我们详细阐述了劳拉·多伊尔的跨帝国方法，以强调干预措施的关系性、变革性和持久性方面。我们将干预措施解释为由多种、重叠和矛盾的理由和方式共同构成。我们强调相互交织的历史和干预实践，作为与帝国、帝国主义及其当代重新表述相关的殖民现代性不可分割的组成部分。作为一种方法，我们确定了辩证地理解干预的三个关键历史过程：干预的国家建设、经济发展和文化实践的共同形成；机构和基础设施系统的共同生产；以及干预措施的基础设施和想象的累积增长。