Sorry it is a little bit out of order.
The aff’s attempts to isolate themselves from the larger context in which all US approaches to knowing, acting upon and negotiating with the middle east are sabotaged from the beginning by an exceptionalist epistemology that refuses to see how far the region has withdrawn from our grasp, quite deliberately, in response to the continuing arrogant and imperial policies it asserts. The 1ac’s narrative of a casual response by _______ to ______ is no different, it still treats _____ as an object, knowable if we simply rationally analyze it as opposed to an offended being, willfully withdrawing from our sovereign narrative, frustrating the all powerful united states by exposing its impotence. We must recognize how this metaphysical rendering of plagues the development of our foreign policy to minimize the imperial violence it commits in our name.
Spanos 2003 – William V. Professor of English @ University of SUNY Binghamton (A Rumor of war, 9/11 and the forgetting of the Vietnam War, boundary 2 30.3, Project MUSE)
The other difference, indissolubly associated with the first….havoc on the civil rights of the American people.
The affirmatives political enframing makes violence in the international system inevitable.
Burke, 2007 – Anthony, Senior lecturer in Politics and IR, University of New South wales (Theory & Event, 10.2)
My argument here, whilst normatively….however ineffective, dysfunctional or chaotic.
Realist enframing of IR guarantees universal destruction of life in the name of scientific certainty – their theory makes persons mends to ends.
Burke, 2007 – Anthony, Senior lecturer in Politics and IR, University of New South wales (Theory & Event, 10.2)
Instead, Oppenheimer saw a process frustrated…….toward shutting down Hezbollah-land.
The projection of our fears of terrorism and danger onto Iran canot be isolated from America’s ideological drive to domesticate the population behind a spectral ogre – simultaneously cleansing us of responsibility for international violence and creating a politics of infinite ressentiment in which we must tirelessly exterminate every threat to existence.
Zizek 2005 – Slavoj, Senior Researcher @ University of Ljubana (Give Iranian nukes a change, www.lacan.com/zizekiranian.htm)
On August 2, France, Britain and Germany…turns out to be the real criminal.
the project on American hegemony is founded in a model of international order molded after the self, necessitating global purification of the disorderly guaranteeing danger and difference become conflated and genocidal extermination becomes necessary
Lifton 2003 – Robert Jay, Professor of Psychiatry @ Harvard Medical School (Superpower Syndrome, pg 104-106)
That kind of apocalyptic impulse in….act iconcert with the Islamist apocalyptic.
The aff’s fixation on “assisting” Bahrain is backwards – our task should be to criticize US involvement, which squelches movements not assume movements require our help
Winegard, 11 - graduate student studying evolutionary and developmental psychology at the University of Missouri (Ben, Understanding Bahrain: How Bahrain Shines a Light on Imperial Policies, 3/11, http://dissidentvoice.org/2011/03/understanding-bahrain-how-bahrain-shines-a-light-on-us-imperial-policies/)
The term Arab Spring is a symbol of the patronizing attitude of the west towards revolutions across the ocean – it reduces the movements to the passivity of changing seasons in order to reduce the revolutionaries to agency-less pawns, in the patronizing western imaginary. We should refer to these movements as “thawrat” – the Arabic terms for revolutions
Khouri 2011 – Rami, Director of Issam Fares institute for public policy and international affairs at American University Beirut, Nieman Journalist fellow @ Harvard (Drop the Orientalist Term ‘Arab spring’”, The Daily Star Lebanon, August 17)
A fascinating aspect of the current wave…..with the seasons and the winds may be…
The US doesn’t give a shit about _______ the aff just posits the self-interest of the ego as a telos for politics, guaranteeing the simultaneous support of authoritarian regimes and nuclear pre-emption
Chavez and Peceny 2008 – Matthew, department of political science at U of New Mexico, Marck, PhD from Stanford in Political science and Professor/Chair in department of Polysci @ U of New Mexico (Façade or Edifice? America’s Post-9/11 Democracy Promotion in the Middle East, Ronald E. McNair and Research Opportunity Scholar Journal (2007-2008) pgs 34-40)
Two broad policy themes emerged…..and semi-authoritarian systems?
Our research method is solid and empirical
Chavez and Peceny 2008 – Matthew, department of political science at U of New Mexico, Marck, PhD from Stanford in Political science and Professor/Chair in department of Polysci @ U of New Mexico (Façade or Edifice? America’s Post-9/11 Democracy Promotion in the Middle East, Ronald E. McNair and Research Opportunity Scholar Journal (2007-2008) pgs 34-40)
To arrive at a complete account….so a brief explanation is necessary
Their view of the political is overly naïve and relies on power/knowledge networks to construct their solvency claims – only a frame which analyzes the power relationships inherent in democracy assistance is truly effective
Doty 1996 – Roxanne, PhD Minnesota in Government and Politics and Professor @ ASU In department of Government and Politics (Imperial encounters, pgs 128-129)
Foreign assistance has been conceptualized…..various twists, turns, and modifications.
AT Owens – History is on our side – the rise of post-positivism in the late 1940s proves that epistemological critizue is tied to and shapes political changes in the world
Kurki 2011 – Milja, International Politics department at Aberystwyth University UK (The Limitations of the Critical Edge: Reflections on Critical and Philosophical IR Scholarship Today, Millenium: Journal of International Studies, July 2011)
Philosophical reflection is about gaining….work the most political of his career.
AT: Lupovici – Actually deterrence empirically justifies pre-emptive warfare because it is an internally contradictory discourse that cannot cope with the undeterrable like Al Qaeda
Lupovici 11
In this respect, I suggest that the challenge….tool for the policy’s justification.
Sadiki is wrong – doesn’t have to do with the aff, aff’s security focus turns their access to Sadiki – aff = secret police
Sadiki 11
There are opportunities, but also perils……Western governments in the “Arab Spring”.
The peace that global hegemony brings is nothing more than a projected fantasy of invulnerability
Lifton 2003 – Robert Jay, Professor of Psychiatry @ Harvard Medical School (Superpower Syndrome, pg 129-130)
Ironically, superpower syndrome projects the problem…..uponmay become dangerously destabilized.
The aff’s notion of “moderates” is ontologically bankrupt because their evidence is written from the epistemology of imperialist which conflates many different political entities as moderate insofar as they conset to furthering our influence
Winegard, 11 - graduate student studying evolutionary and developmental psychology at the University of Missouri (Ben, Understanding Bahrain: How Bahrain Shines a Light on Imperial Policies, 3/11, http://dissidentvoice.org/2011/03/understanding-bahrain-how-bahrain-shines-a-light-on-us-imperial-policies/)
The US has obvious interests in the…..record on democracy and human rights.
AT: Free trade solves war – the opp cost model is oversimplifying by reducing the indeterminancy of “strategic calculations” to a normative question of what rational states SHOULD do
McDonald and Sweeney – Patrick, professor of gov at UT Austin and Kevin, works for the DoD (The Achilles’Heel of the Liberal IR Theory? Globalization and Conflict in the Pre-World 1 Era, World Politics 59.3, 2007, 270-403, Project Muse)
A vast quantity of empirical evidence….negotiated bargain short of war in a crisis.
Their attempt to analyze the actions of the nation as a homogenous entity fail – the nature of free trade creates indeterminacy by restructuring wealth distribution. Domestic policy change.
McDonald and Sweeney – Patrick, professor of gov at UT Austin and Kevin, works for the DoD (The Achilles’Heel of the Liberal IR Theory? Globalization and Conflict in the Pre-World 1 Era, World Politics 59.3, 2007, 270-403, Project Muse)
This theoretical choice carries important…..international trade for commercial peace hypothese.
epistemology first – must be the starting point. Empire is maintained bye xcluding alternate ways of knowing throw a reliance on political science “experts” that naturalize the American way of life is good
Wedeen 2007 – Lisa, Professor of Political science, specializes in comparative politics, the Middle east, political theory, feminist theory, qualitative methods (Scientific Knowledge, Liberalism and Empire: American Political Sicence in the Modern Middle East Social Science Research Council, June 14-15, 2007)
The late Edward Said (1978) famously…..liberal politics, on the other.
US Neo-imperialism sustains itself by controlling the boundaries of knowledge. Only exposing the epistemic violence of imperialism can offer ways of knowing that counteract the violence and elitism of US empire
Mclaren and Kincheloe 2005 – Peter, Professor of Education, Grad School of Education and Information Studies @ UCLA, and Joe, Proessfor and Canada Research chair at the faculty of education at McGill (The Sage Handbook of Qualitative Research, Third Ediition, Eds Norman Denzin and Yvonna Lincoln)
In this context, it is important…..different points in a new era.
