T - Democracy assistance (primary goal has to be creation of real democracy, not imperialism)
Vagueness - your plan is vague, that's bad
Oil (high prices good, you lower prices)
F-Bureau CP (Do the plan through the F-Bureau)
"The People" CP (do the plan to the people of the topic area)
Schmitt K
Politics Scenarios we've run
Transportation Bill
China Bashing (currency)
Eurozone (Dip Cap)
LINK: The Middle East is a geopolitical creation devoid of meaning
Hazbun 11. Waleed Hazbun [Dept. of Political Science, Johns Hopkins], The Middle East Through the Lens of Critical Geopolitics: Globalization, Terrorism, and the Iraq War, in Where is the Middle East? (forthcoming), 2011, p. 1, http://hazbun.mwoodward.com/HAZBUN_Lens%20of%20Critical%20Geopolitics.pdf *njs*
Unlike terms for America, Asia, Europe, or Africa, … with other regions of the globe.
LINK: The focus on territory is emblematic of a Cold War understanding of the Middle East
Hazbun 11. Waleed Hazbun [Dept. of Political Science, Johns Hopkins], The Middle East Through the Lens of Critical Geopolitics: Globalization, Terrorism, and the Iraq War, in Where is the Middle East? (forthcoming), 2011, p. 8-9, http://hazbun.mwoodward.com/HAZBUN_Lens%20of%20Critical%20Geopolitics.pdf *njs*
In this context, the state-dominated economies and authoritarian regimes … immune to the trends affecting other parts of the world.”21
MPX: The nation-state’s spatial discourse attempts to provide cultural coherence to a fragmentary body that is composed of different histories, masking the monopolization of violence the state has utilized in the consolidation of its identity.
Shapiro 04. Michael Shapiro [Professor of Political Science, University of Hawaii], Methods and Nations (2004), at 48-9 *njs*
By heeding the temporality associated with nation building, we can …challenge the state’s coherence-producing writing performances.
ALT: Critical Geographies can assure a participatory democracy, equality, and justice. Furthermore, it is through this rounds conversation that we can change. We must confront our complacency.
Peet 69. J. Richard Peet, Ph.D. [Professor of Geography, Clark University], A New Left Geography, 1.1 Antipode (1969), at 4-5 *njs*
The nascent New Left in … subscribe, write, and organize within your department.