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Democracy assistance is tied to an understanding of order as entailing Western liberal forms – this is the basis for coercive interventions
Hobson 9 (Christopher Hobson, Department of International Politics Aberystwyth University, Alternatives, “The Limits of Liberal-Democracy Promotion”, #34)
Key actors seeking to support democracy abroad, such as the United States, have tended to understand it in a rather specific manner. The...either the political will is lacking and needs to be generated, or the conditions for agency are prevented by unfavorable local conditions.
Their approach to democracy assistance attempts to prove Western Superiority over the Middle East by constructing Islam as anti-democratic and inherently threatening
Teti, 7 (Andrea, Department of Politics and International Relations, University of Aberdeen, “Confessions of a Dangerous Paradigm: Democratisation, Transitology and Orientalism”)
[The bio-politics of failure: Disciplining the Failed Other] A key element which closes the loop of confessional politics, allowing it to reproduce...illiberal practice, and capitalism’s need for economic expansion, conjured up precisely the anti-liberal forces which it sought to undermine.50
This ontological commitment to ordering insecurity is the root cause of conflict, makes violence and serial policy failure inevitable
Burke 7 (Anthony Burke, Int'l Studies @ U of New South Wales, “Ontologies of War,” in Theory & Event, Vol. 10, Iss. 2)
This essay develops a theory about the causes of war -- and thus aims to generate lines of action and critique for peace -- that cuts beneath…Clausewitz's thought -- and thus in our dominant understandings of politics and war -- tragically violent 'choices' will continue to be made.
Their credibility advantage is the clearest manifestation of this logic
Noorani 5 (Yaseen, U of Arizona, Tuscon, "The Rhetoric of Security," in The New Centennial Review," Vol 5, No 1, Spring, pp. 13-41)
The U.S. government’s rhetoric of global security draws its power from simultaneously instantiating Schmitt’s vision of the political as ...within itself in a manner that extends from the relations among states down to the inner moral struggle experienced by every human being.
Vote negative to reject the affirmative’s security politics – effective decision-making should begin with how we constitute ourselves as ethical subjects
Burke 2 (Anthony, Int'l Studies @ U of New South Wales, “Aporias of Security,” in Alternatives 27, p. 18-23)
Refusing Security It is perhaps easy to become despondent, but as countless struggles for freedom, justice, and social transformation have...of an other that never returns to the same. It would be to ask if there is a world after security, and what its shimmering possibilities might be.
AT: Perm
only a radical break allows us to break the stranglehold of security
Neocleous 8 (Mark Neocleous, Prof. Professor of the Critique of Political Economy; Head of Department of Politics & History at Brunel University – West London, “Critique of Security,” p. 184-6)
The only way out of such a dilemma, to escape the fetish, is perhaps to eschew the logic of security altogether - to reject it as so ideologically...does not mean dealing with it politically, but bracketing it out and handing it to the state; it requires us to be brave enough to return the gift.143
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Islamophobia turns every internal link – root cause
Kull, 9-5-’11 (Steven, Director of Program on International Policy Attitudes, “Why Muslims are still mad at America”
http://globalpublicsquare.blogs.cnn.com/2011/09/05/why-muslims-are-still-mad-at-america/)
On the ten-year anniversary of the 9/11 attacks, many Americans are wondering whether the risk of a terrorist attack against America has...freedom to practice their religion. When they feel that America is threatening their religion and their aspirations, they grow resolutely hostile.
Democratic movements become a strategic tool diverted to regional military interests – this fixation on strategic logic that renders all life calculable v
Burke 7 (Anthony Burke, Int'l Studies @ U of New South Wales, “Ontologies of War,” in Theory & Event, Vol. 10, Iss. 2) *we don’t endorse the gendered language in this ev
Man's empire over creation -- his discovery of the innermost secrets of matter and energy, of the fires that fuelled the stars -- had not...transformed and perverted by such calculating, enframing reason: human lives are reduced to tools, obstacles, useful or obstinate matter.
AT: Realism
Anarchy is what states make of it
Grondin 4 [David, master of pol sci and PHD of political studies @ U of Ottowa “(Re)Writing the “National Security State”: How and Why Realists (Re)Built the(ir) Cold War,” http://www.er.uqam.ca/nobel/ieim/IMG/pdf/rewriting_national_security_state.pdf]
A poststructuralist approach to international relations reassesses the nature of the political. Indeed, it calls for the repoliticization of practices...Dominant theories are, in this view, dominant discourses that shape our view of the world (the “subject”) and our ways of understanding it.
AT: Framework
politics is more than just the action or mechanism of the plan, it includes how those things are implicated by our particular ontological projects
Kouros '99 (George, Yale Law Graduate, And Holds a B.A. in Philosophy from Emory. “Become What You Are,” p. 35-42) *we don’t endorse the gendered language in this ev
Unlike systems of ethics which take the subject as their starting point and build an ethics out of a truth of the subject (e.g., the Kantian...self-formation, what one is is never fully articulated. The authentic self demonstrates an overall greater quality of life than the inauthentic self.
Ignoring method --> serial policy failure – bigger i/l to policy education
Burke 7 (Anthony Burke, Int'l Studies @ U of New South Wales, “Ontologies of War,” in Theory & Event, Vol. 10, Iss. 2)
This tells us much about the enduring power of crude instrumental versions of strategic thought, which relate not merely to the actual use of...discourses and events which then preordain militarism and violence as necessary policy responses, however ineffective, dysfunctional or chaotic.
