DefeThe aff constructs the “Arab Spring” in a profoundly orientalist manner – the belief that Western-style secular liberal democracy is the solution in the Middle East and North Africa depicts the region as something to be dominated by the West and is rooted in a deeply essentialist narrative
S Sayyid 2011 (Director of the International Centre for Muslin and non-Muslim Understanding at the University of South Australia, "Dis-Orienting Clusters of Civility," Third World Quarterly 32:5, pg. 981-7)
Into what kind of narrative can we fit
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, Martin Luther King and Nelson Mandela.3
This outweighs and turns case – Orientalist discourse posits a false understanding of the region, recreating insecurities and causing extinction
Bilgin, '5 (Pinar, Dept of International Relations, Bilkent University, Ankara, Regional Security in the Middle East: A Critical Perspective, pg. 164-5)
Thinking about the future from a critical security
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complicit in perpetuating regional insecurity in the Middle East
The affirmative’s conflation of the conditions of the existence of state institutions with the conditions of the possibility of Democracy perpetuates violent repression and militarism crushing radical experiences of true democracy
Wall 11 (Dr Illan Rua Wall is a senior lecturer of Law at the University of Oxford Brookes, “Anger and Indignation in Ireland, Greece and Tunisia,” 7/4/11 http://greekleftreview.wordpress.com/2011/07/04/anger-and-indignation-in-ireland-greece-and-tunisia/)
The first thing to note, in the
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This is the same relation that pacifies Ireland.
The political order of including and excluding people is part of the larger system that designates whole populations as disposable – this underlies violence globally.
Balibar, ‘4 (Professor of Philosophy, Etienne, We, The People of Europe?, p.125-30)
In such conditions, we can incline toward
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of equality, the horizon of political action.
The alternative is to reject the aff’s orientalist construction of the “Middle East” and the uprisings throughout the region and instead view these uprisings as a Repudiation of Orientalist norms by aligning ourselves with the resistance movement. Failure to reconsider how we relate to the region ensures policy failures and precludes the development of a more cosmopolitan social science.
Giuseppe Caruso 2011 (post-doc researcher at the Centre of Excellence in Global Governance Research at the University of Helsinki, "For a Cosmopolitan Social Science: lessons from the 'Arab Spring,'" http://giuseppecaruso.wordpress.com/2011/05/21/for-a-cosmopolitan-social-science-lessons-from-the-%E2%80%9Carab-spring%E2%80%9D/)
A myth was challenged, and this may
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and challenges involved and contribute to their transformation.
LINK – Stability/ME Security
Constructing the region based on Western security interests misrepresents the region and frames it as an insecure and deviant Orient that necessitates Western interventions like the plan
Pinar Bilgin 2005, PhD International Politics, University of Wales, Aberystwyth, Department of International Relations Bilkent Univ., Regional Security in the Middle East p. 1
Throughout the twentieth century, the Middle East
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analyses on regional security in the Middle East.
LINK – Islam/Radicalization/Muslim Brotherhood
The aff constructs a scarecrow threat of political Islamic groups as part of a strategy for American control of the Orient – the “Islamic threat” leads to the support of antidemocratic oppressive regimes and kills their agency
Mohammed Abu-Nimer 2011 (International Peace and Conflict Resolution Program @ American Univ, "The Arab world geographer," Vol 14 No 2, pg. 153-159)
For decades, authoritarian Arab regimes and dictators
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Christian protestors who protected each other while praying.
