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PTC
Consult Congress
Neoliberalism
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Democracy assistance is only transfer of funds, expertise and material related to institutions already working towards democracy- the aff is capacity building.
Lappin ‘10
Richard Lappin, a PhD candidate at the Centre for Peace Research and Strategic Studies at the University of Leuven in Belgium, He has participated in over a dozen democracy assistance missions with the UN, EU, OSCE and Carter Center, visiting Scholar at the Faculty of Political Sciences at the University of Belgrade under the JoinEU-SEE programme. “What We Talk About When We Talk About Democracy Assistance: The Problem of Definition in Post-Conflict Approaches to Democratisation”. Central European Journal of International and Security Studies. Vol.4, No.1, May (2010). http://www.cejiss.org/sites/default/files/8.pdf
Democracy assistance can be most accurately defined as
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society groups, media groups and political parties.
Governance is distinct from democracy assistance.
Burnell ‘2k
Peter J. Burnell, Professor of Politics
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democratization. 2000. p. 18-19
In principle democracy assistance can be distinguished from
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as 'assistance' in the Development Assistance Committee's terms.
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Text: The Executive Branch of the United States federal government should enter into prior and binding consultation with the Legislative Branch of the United States federal government over an Executive proposal to offer a substantial increase in Joint Combined Exchange Training program to Egypt for the purposes of increasing democratic rule of law and governance.The Executive should advocate their proposal throughout the process and agree to implement the outcome of the consultation.
Obama must consult with Congress prior to acting in MENA.
CSM ‘11
Christian Science Monitor’s Editorial Board. May 13, 2011. “Obama speech: He must consult Congress on strategy toward Arab Spring” http://www.csmonitor.com/Commentary/the-monitors-view/2011/0513/Obama-speech-He-must-consult-Congress-on-strategy-toward-Arab-Spring
On Thursday, President Obama plans to give
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to be determined by the executive branch alone.
Prior genuine consultation is key – avoids the link to politics and promotes interbranch co-operation
Hamilton ‘3, director of the Wilson Center
Lee H. Hamilton, Director of the
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Next American Century, p. 59-60
The president must also work closely with Congress
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other high-level officials are personally involved.
The impact is extinction
Jamison ‘93, depute of Governmental Relations @ CSIS
Linda S., Deputy of Governmental Relations @ CSIS, "Executive-Legislative Relations after the Cold War." Washington Quarterly, Spring Vol. 16, No. 2, p. 189
Indeed, there are very few domestic issues
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branch (Mann 1990, 28-29).
1NC Payroll DA
PTC will pass now
Weisman 1/17
Jonathan, Parties Confident of Extending Payroll Tax
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tax-cut.html?_r=1
With both parties largely in agreement on a
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by the Presidents’ Day break at the latest.
The plan generates a massive controversy
Richter, LAT, ‘11
(Correspondent, LA Times. “Debt
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accessed 9-28-11, CMM)
Reporting from Washington — The Obama administration's efforts
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administration has been blocked at almost every turn.
Political capital is key
Philadelphia Inquirer, 9/8
POINT: Don't expect miracles on job growth; Some steps could help, but don't expect miracles, 9/8/2011, http://articles.philly.com/2011-09-08/news/30130709_1_jobs-plan-american-economy-rare-tax
President Obama goes into Thursday's big speech on
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made a major effort to privatize Social Security.
Failure to pass leads to a double-dip recession—makes us vulnerable to future shocks
CNN Money 12/20
Economists: Payroll tax deadlock could hobble economy
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economy-20111220,0,7377025.story
If Congress fails to pass an extension of
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Sal Guatieri senior economist with BMO Capital Markets.
Economic collapse causes global nuclear war
Mead 9—Senior Fellow in US Foreign Policy Studies @ Council on Foreign Relations
Walter Russell, Only Makes You Stronger, The New Republic, 2-4-09, http://www.tnr.com/politics/story.html?id=571cbbb9-2887-4d81-8542-92e83915f5f8&p=1
The greatest danger both to U.S
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track, we may still have to fight.
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Capacity building is grounded in neoliberal competiveness- allows expert cooption of the transition
Dixon ‘11
(Marion, Department of Development Sociology,
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An Arab spring”, Review of African Political Economy
Vol. 38, No. 128, June 2011, 309–316)
The role of US aid in promoting a
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mutually reinforcing hegemony of coercion and of consent.
Globalization makes extinction inevitable- social and environmental factors build positive feedbacks create a cascade of destruction - only massive social reorganization of society can produce sustainable change and save the planet
Ehrenfeld ‘5,
(David, Dept. of Ecology, Evolution, and Natural Resources @ Rutgers University, “The Environmental Limits to Globalization”, Conservation Biology Vol. 19 No. 2 April 2005)
The known effects of globalization on the environment
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with ours within the global environment we share.
Alternative Text: the judge should vote negative to refuse the aff’s neoliberal subjectivity
Refusing neoliberal subjectivity opens space for chains of equivalence with the Arab Spring and creates new movements against neoliberal politics
Hasso & Dolgan ‘11
(Frances, Associate Professor of Women’s Studies
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)
In a recent interview you suggest that these
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own interpersonal, institutional, and political lives.
You should evaluate pedagogy as a prior question- it determines available political possibilities and shapes politics- neoliberal pedagogy uniquely collapses the public sphere
Giroux ‘5,
(Henry, Global TV Network Chair in
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College Literature 32.1 [Winter 2005])
Fortunately, the corporate capitalist fairytale of neoliberalism
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inclusive democracy) and the global public sphere.
SCAF DA
SCAF will maintain control---the U.S. is preserving relations through a hands-off approach
David D. Kirkpatrick 10-14 is a correspondent in the Washington bureau of The New York Times "Egypt’s Military Expands Power, Raising Alarms" Oct 14 www.nytimes.com/2011/10/15/world/middleeast/egypts-military-expands-power-raising-alarms.html?_r=1&partner=rss&emc=rss&pagewanted=print
Egypt’s military rulers are moving to assert and
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the plan for elections “an appropriate timetable.”
The plan trashes U.S.-SCAF relations-causes a backlash and turns the case
Sharp 11 – Jeremy M. Sharp, Specialist in Middle Eastern Affairs at the Congressional Research Service, August 23, 2011, “Egypt in Transition,” online: http://fpc.state.gov/documents/organization/171381.pdf
Controversy over U.S. Democracy Aid
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their presence in the current charged political climate.
*Turkey*
o motivation, no access and vaccines check the impact
Clark ‘8 – Emeritus Professor in Immunology at UCLA
William R. Clark, emeritus professor in Immunology at UCLA. Bracing for Armageddon?: The Science and Politics of Bioterrorism in America, 2008, pg. 183
In the end, what may well stop
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its ilk may be a non-starter.
No extinction impact.
Britt ‘1
Robert Roy Britt, Senior Space Writer/Space.com. “Survival of the Elitist: Bioterrorism May Spur Space Colonies”. October 30 2001. http://www.space4peace.org/articles/moving.htm
Many scientists argue that there is no need
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an asteroid hitting the planet," Croddy said.
No impact to bioterror – empirically denied and doesn’t support political goals
Smith and Davison ‘10
Geoffrey L. Smith is Wellcome Principal Research Fellow and head of the Department of Virology at Imperial College London and the chair of the Advisory Committee on the Scientific Aspects of International Security at the Royal Society. Neil Davison is senior policy adviser in the Science Policy Centre at the Royal Society. Assessing the spectrum of biological risks. January/February 2010. Bulletin of Atomic Scientists.
Non-state groups with particular political aims
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that infected 17 people and killed five.20
Despite tensions no risk of Israel-Turkey conflict.
Hürriyet Daily News ‘11
“Possibility of Turkish-Israeli military conflict
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still-small-2011-09-09
With Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan’s remarks that
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Turkey did not recognize Israel’s blockade of Gaza.
They don’t solve the Turkey influence scenarios.
Israel won’t use nukes.
Wilson ‘2
George C. Wilson, veteran defense reporter and former national defense correspondent of The Washington Post. October 12, 2002. The National Journal. http://www.d-n-i.net/fcs/comments/c461.htm
Jack Spencer, defense policy analyst at the
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world would react far stronger than Israel has."
Turkish influence and relations with Russia declining now.
Afrasiabi 10/12
Kaveh L Afrasiabi, PhD, is the
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atimes/Middle_East/MJ12Ak03.html
Already, Turkey's embrace of the bid by
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a new strategic foothold in the Middle East.
Balkans conflicts won’t escalate.
Fettweis ‘11 – Professor of Political Science @ Tulane
Christopher, Professor of Political Science @ Tulane
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Politics of Great Power Peace, pg. 85
The trend is apparent on every continent.
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seem to repel far more than they attract.
Turkey will bash Israel inevitability, but won’t escalate.
Reuters ‘11
Reuters. “Analysis: Turkey to complicate life for Israel, but avoid war”. 9/9/2011. http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-4120120,00.html
Turkey's threat to send warships to protect aid
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but it is not clear whether he can."
Dozens regional conflicts disprove escalation.
Drum ‘7
Kevin Drum, political bloger. September 9
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individual/2007_09/012029.php
Having admitted, however, that the odds
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war for a decade. No regional conflagration.
Superpowers won’t go to war over the Middle East.
Gelb ’10 – President Emeritus of the Council on Foreign Relations
Leslie, President Emeritus of the Council on
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1979, November/December Foreign Affairs, Proquest
Also reducing the likelihood of conflict today is
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they rarely oppose one another in explosive situations.
Turkey-Iran won’t fight.
Karon ‘11
Tony Karon, a senior editor at TIME
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-power-game-on-syria/
And while Syria offers Iran its one solid
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coming days and weeks regardless of Iran's preferences.
Adv 2
The international order won’t collapse & US leadership is no longer key to prevent conflict
G. John Ikenberry, Professor of Politics and International Affairs at Princeton University, Global Eminence Scholar at Kyung Hee University, “The Liberal International Order and its Discontents,” Millennium - Journal of International Studies, May 2010, 38: 509
Some observers see a new divide between autocratic
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cooperate in open and rule-based ways.
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Scaf
US – SCAF relations resilient
Dunne, 11
(Scholar-Middle East Institute and former staff member of the U.S. National Security Council, 2/12, http://blogs.the-american-interest.com/middleeast/2011/02/12/after-mubarak/)
First, the ability of the United States
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this program and retrenchment if it does not.
Long time frame
Bruneau, Peggar, and Wright 8
Researchers at the Center for Civil-Military Relations, “IMET Assessment Project,” pg 29
Sixth, the question of time further complicates
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progress in their careers over years or decades.
Naval power not key to hegemony
Goure 10 (Daniel Goure. PhD in IR, BA in government, VP of the Lexington Institute, member of the Department of Defense Transition Team, former director of Strategic Competitiveness for the Secretary of State, senior analyst on national security and defense issues with the Center for Naval Analyses. “Can the Case be Made for Naval Power?” 2 July 2010. Lexington Institute. http://www.lexingtoninstitute.org/can-the-case-be-made-for-naval-power-?a=1&c=1171)
More broadly, it appears that the nature
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jeopardy, seem relatively unimportant in today’s world.
SCAF won’t sub-ordinate – this is a different underlining of 1ac Ottaway evidence
Ottaway, Senior Associate – Middle East – Carnegie, 11/3
(Egypt’s Democracy: Between the Military, Islamists, and Illiberal Democrats, www.carnegieendowment.org/2011/11/03/egypt-s-democracy-between-military-islamists-and-illiberal-democrats/6lzl)
Judging simply on the official pronouncements of the
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will affect the possibility of a democratic transition.
The SCAF has several interests that mean they won’t sub-ordinate – 1ac Henry evidence
Henry, Professor - Government - Texas, 11 (2/21, A Tunisian Solution for Egypt’s Military, http://www.foreignaffairs.com/articles/67475/clement-m-henry-and-robert-springborg/a-tunisian-solution-for-egypts-military?page=show)
The popular uprisings that swept Egypt and Tunisia
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25 movement: “Tunisia is the solution.”
Their 1ac Traub evidence indicates that their read of the SCAF is far too optimistc
Traub, Contributing writer for the New York Times Magazine, 9/23 (Is There Light At The End of Egypt's Tunnel?,http://www.foreignpolicy.com/articles/2011/09/23/the_storm_before_the_calm?page=0,0)
Egypt is a mess. This month,
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schedule, and thus its own hapless tenure.
The Military will hand over power, but only to ensure its privileged position and power – the plan can’t solve true CMR.
Martini and Taylor 11 project associate at the RAND Corporation, political scientist at the RAND Corporation
Jeffrey, and Julie, Commanding Democracy in Egypt: The Military's Attempt to Manage the Future, 8/25/11, http://www.rand.org/commentary/2011/08/25/FA.html
Thus far, the evidence suggests that the
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of some deep-seated belief in democracy.
AT Rule of Law Adv
Judicial independence in Egypt now
Osman 9/21
Ahmed Zaki, Judicial reform hits a bump as judges propose conflicting draft laws, http://www.almasryalyoum.com/en/node/497953
As a pivotal draft law regulating Egypt’s judiciary
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a significant but informal influence over his colleagues.
Its high now
Al Masry al-Youm 9/8
Judges Club proposes amendments to judiciary, http://www.almasryalyoum.com/en/node/493645
At a press conference on Thursday, the
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allows for their being seconded to other countries.
Sending a signal that the rule of law is designed to limit govt power causes elites to backlash against democracy
Finn ‘4
John E. Finn is a Professor of Government at Wesleyan University 2004 The Good Society 13.3 (2004) 12-16
Just as it is easier to hold elections
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and as a live feature of democratic states.
AT Turkish Adv
U.S. Unipolarity has already ended
Christopher Layne 2012 (is Robert M. Gates Chair in Intelligence and National Security at the George Bush School of Government and Public Service at Texas A&M University; ISQ* peer reviewed: ISI Journal Citation Reports® Ranking: 2010: International Relations: 10 / 73; Political Science: 18 / 139 Impact Factor: 1.523) “This Time It's Real: The End of Unipolarity and the Pax Americana” International Studies Quarterly, 1-11
Before the Great Recession's foreshow in the fall
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the US hegemony on which it was based.
Anti-Israel sentiment is a matter of ingrained ideology – not reversible
Trager 9-13 – PhD Candidate in Political Science
“Cairo’s Embassy Riots: Anti-Israeli Sentiment in Egypt Has Nothing to do with Palestine,” http://www.tnr.com/article/world/94826/egyptian-nationalism-anti-israel-gaza-arab-spring-sinai-embassy
But to assume that the Egyptian protesters who
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may well be the downfall of Egypt’s revolt.
Turn – successful transition increases anti-Israeli sentiment
Inbar 8 – Professor of Political Studies
US-Israeli relations in a new era: issues and challenges after 9/11, Editor, p. 130
The neoconscrvativc's goal of democratizing the Middle East
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to the Middle East as unrealistic and reckless.
1NR – K
F/W
Their FW of a competitive policy option is not responsive- framing determines the direction of policy and shapes even elite choices- the only question is whether or not we directly engage neoliberalism
Bristow ‘5
(School of City and Regional Planning, Cardiff University)
(Gillian, Everyone’s a ‘winner’: problematising the discourse of regional competitiveness, Journal of Economic Geography 5 (2005) pp. 285–304)
This begs the question as to why a
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the ideas of regional and national policy elites.
They cede the political- neoliberalism collapses the public sphere and creates a drive for accumulation that ends in extinction
Giroux ‘6
(Henry A. Giroux currently holds the Global TV Network Chair Professorship at McMaster University in Canada. “Dirty Democracy and State Terrorism: The Politics of the New Authoritarianism in the United States,” Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East 26.2 (2006) 163-177.)
While it would be ludicrous to suggest that
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20 million children to leave their homes.16
Alt
These movements are different- crumbling economies in the global north have created material solidarity between the first and third world- creates an effective mindset shift
Harvey 10/27
(Ryan, writer, an organizer with the Civilian-Soldier Alliance, “Globalization” Is Coming Home: Protests Spread as Financial Institutions Target Global North”, Thursday 27 October 2011, http://www.truth-out.org/world-finally-fighting-infection-neoliberalism/1320164620?q=globalization-coming-home-protests-spread-financial-institutions-target-global-north/1319721791)
Shortly before the once-prized economy of
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for a minority of the world’s wealthiest people.
Charney 11/1
(Scott, Intern @ Foreign Policy in Focus, “The World Is Finally Fighting Off the Infection of Neoliberalism”, http://www.truth-out.org/world-finally-fighting-infection-neoliberalism/1320164620)
The narrative seems simple enough: on December
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and every allied struggle worldwide have in mind.
2NC Link
Democracy assistance to Egypt creates a regime of neoliberal expertism, organizing populist energies according to the structures of the Washington Consensus
Africa ‘11
(David, principal associate at research and training consultancy Africa-Analysis.org and a graduate student at the University of Cambridge.,
“Stealing Egypt's revolution”, February 18, 2011, http://english.aljazeera.net/indepth/opinion/2011/02/201121710152468629.html)
The expropriation of the Egyptian revolution by the
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Tel Aviv over that of the Egyptian people.
Perm
The permutation ensures co-option- political action is only possible if it directly engages existing hegemonic coordinates, they ensure collapse of the transition
Zizek 10/26
(Slavoj, International Director of the Birkbeck Institute for the Humanities, “Occupy first. Demands come later”, http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2011/oct/26/occupy-protesters-bill-clinton)
What one should resist at this stage is
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", ominous and threatening as it should be.
Impossible demands are good- their net benefits to the permutation perpetuate an unsustainable economic system and ensure extinction
Ross 11/18
(Clifton, writer and videographer. His book, “Translations from Silence” won the 2010 Josephine Miles Award for Literary Excellence from Oakland PEN and has just been published in Spanish by Editorial Perro y Rana, Venezuela. His film, “Venezuela: Revolution from the Inside Out” was published in 2008 by PM Press, “The New Realism: Reflections on the Voyage of an Epigraph”, http://dissidentvoice.org/2011/11/the-new-realism-reflections-on-the-voyage-of-an-epigraph/)
In this context, what does it mean
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. And we can’t settle for anything less.
2nc Structural Violence DA
Pinker’s analysis is useless- entirely ignores role of population growth, which accounts for all of the change he cites
Flynn 12/7
Julian Flynn, Financial Times, “Angel thesis hangs on overpopulation,” December 7, 2011, http://www.ft.com/intl/cms/s/0/30bf527c-1cfb-11e1-a134-00144feabdc0.html#axzz1h1lHx8gS
Sir, Gideon Rachman’s article “
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serious sword of Damocles hanging over our planet.
Their focus on catastrophic violence trades off with analysis of everyday slow violence and ensures error replication because it allows us to bracket on-going casualties from declared conflicts that have officially ended
Nixon ‘11
(Rob, Rachel Carson Professor of English, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Slow Violence and the Environmentalism of the Poor, pgs. 12-14)
Over the past two decades, this high
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bracketing violence routinely ignore ongoing, belated casualties.
Structural violence is the proximate cause of all war- creates priming that psychologically structures escalation
Scheper-Hughes and Bourgois ‘4
(Prof of Anthropology @ Cal-Berkely; Prof of Anthropology @ UPenn)
(Nancy and Philippe, Introduction: Making Sense of Violence, in Violence in War and Peace, pg. 19-22)
This large and at first sight “messy
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gated communities; and reversed feelings of victimization).
