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ABSTRACT This article aims to cut through the organizational mess that characterizes interventionist practices. It combines the concept of bureaucratic field with Multiple Correspondence Analysis to bring out the structures that underpin interventions. This quali-quantitative method can therefore break new ground in charting the social structures to which statebuilding gives birth, as the case study on bordering interventions in Central Asia illustrates. In this region, international bureaucrats work across borders in order to change how borders work. The experts of the European Commission and the OSCE wield more power than those of the IOM and the UNODC in turning the interstate borders of Central Asian States into filters that decelerate threats and accelerate wealth.