This article uses the example of the Mogadishu International Airport zone and takes a spatio-temporal lens to explore how (sovereign) power unfolds in international interventions that aim at building a sovereign state. I show that the Mogadishu International Airport zone emerges as an elastic frontier zone that contradicts the sovereign imaginary intervenors aim to project and undermines many of the taken-for-granted boundaries that states tend to produce. The Mogadishu International Airport and similar zones emphasize the centrality of logistics and circulation in interventions, but also point towards their temporal and liminal character. Modularity became the material answer to the demand to secure circulation while adapting to the rapid rhythm and short timeframes of statebuilding. Modular designs enable the constant adaptation of the intervention terrain, allow intervenors to deny their power and imprint and facilitate the commercialization of supply chains and intervention materials. Sovereign power that operates through such zones becomes modular itself. It is exercised as an adaptable, in parts exchangeable, and highly mobile form of power that operates through crises and emergencies. The spaces and materials created by modular forms of sovereign power remain elusive, but nonetheless stratify experiences of power and security.

本文以摩加迪沙国际机场区为例，从时空视角探讨（主权）权力在旨在建设主权国家的国际干预中如何展开。我展示了摩加迪沙国际机场区作为一个弹性边界区出现，这与主权假想干预者旨在投射和破坏国家倾向于产生的许多理所当然的边界相矛盾。摩加迪沙国际机场和类似区域强调了物流和流通在干预措施中的中心地位，但也指出了它们的时间和界限特征。模块化成为对确保流通的需求的物质回应，同时适应国家建设的快速节奏和短时间框架。模块化设计使干预地形不断适应，允许干预者否认他们的权力和印记，并促进供应链和干预材料的商业化。通过这些区域运作的主权权力本身就变得模块化。它作为一种适应性强、部分可交换、高度流动的权力形式行使，在危机和紧急情况下运作。主权权力的模块化形式所创造的空间和材料仍然难以捉摸，但仍然对权力和安全的体验进行了分层。以及在危机和紧急情况下运作的高度流动的权力形式。主权权力的模块化形式所创造的空间和材料仍然难以捉摸，但仍然对权力和安全的体验进行了分层。以及在危机和紧急情况下运作的高度流动的权力形式。主权权力的模块化形式所创造的空间和材料仍然难以捉摸，但仍然对权力和安全的体验进行了分层。