State sovereignty depends on manufacturing internal threats to justify homogeneity
Evidence
State sovereignty, taken to be the defining and refining condition of modern state formation, is fashioned dialectically in relation both to external powers and threats ~ most notably, control in the face of invasion by others - and the manufacture of internalized threats. Thus the very thinking of the state of sovereignty is predicated on the dream of a legislated homogeneity, of sameness across populations and the relative externalization of threats and the different. — David Theo Goldberg, The Racial State, 84
Categorization
- XREF: Parallels the learned idea that institutions emerge where information is costly and where punishment motivation must be manufactured; also echoes sacrifice-as-stabilizer literature about internally produced threats.