Tournament: Neregional | Round: 5 | Opponent: George Mason Gitahi-Ghanem | Judge: Patrice
The denunciation of “hard power” in favor of “diplomatic measures” is the revival of Fukuyama’s repressive hypothesis, which justified the “winning hearts and minds” approach of Vietnam and is a veiled attempt to subdue local politics and power in favor of absolute American hegemony
Spanos 8 (William, Distinguished Professor of Literature/Baller, American Exceptionalism in the Age of Globalization-The Spector of Vietnam, p. 16-19 TR)
As the representation of such an all-encompassing… leaves a trail of innocent blood in his inexorably undeviating wake.
Pursuit of hegemony is a fantasy of control that relies upon construction of threatening Otherness – this prompts resistance and create a permanent state of conflict
Chernus 6 (Ira, Professor of Religious Studies and Co-director of the Peace and Conflict Studies Program- University of Colardo Boulder, Monsters to Destroy: The Neoconservative War on Terror and Sin, p. 53-54TR) 

The end of the cold war spawned a tempting… the more likely it is to believe and enact the neocon story.

Tournament: Neregional | Round: 5 | Opponent: George Mason Gitahi-Ghanem | Judge: Patrice
The state of exception resides in the inability to define where it begins or ends- redrawing the line leads to co-optation
Agamben 2005
(Giorgio, Extremely influential critical philosopher, teaches at EGS, has multiple publications, and Phil’s ultimate man crush “The State of Exception”, pgs. 2-3) DF

One of the elements that make the state of exception… between democracy and absolutism.
The removal of the enumeration of war powers is not a restriction on the implementation of the principle behind those powers but an instantiation of status quo practices
Agamben 5
(Giorgio, Extremely influential critical philosopher, teaches at EGS, has multiple publications, and Phil’s ultimate man crush “The State of Exception”, pgs. 6-7) DF
This term (which German jurists had already… here shows its tendency to become a lasting practice of government.
This is obvious in the realm of the President’s powers, as the non-terminating state of emergency have put any person in the zone of indistinction, that perpetuates concepts of American exceptionalism, where no qualification has to be given for their designation as a threat
Agamben 5
(Giorgio, Extremely influential critical philosopher, teaches at EGS, has multiple publications, and Phil’s ultimate man crush “The State of Exception”, pg. 7) DF
The immediately biopolitical significance… Guantánamo, bare life reaches its maximum indeterminacy.
American exceptionalism operates by white washing and a forgetting of the past that falsely proclaims each new conflict to be the one where we will actually be better
Spanos 8 (William, Distinguished Professor of Literature/Baller, American Exceptionalism in the Age of Globalization-The Spector of Vietnam, p. 14-16 TR)
What is remarkable, to emphasize the disclosive paradox… ideological implications but also for its implications for thinking as such.
(I!) It’s this drive to forget the past, and continue to fix the Other and assign the terrorist identity, and draw these lines, through targeted killings and other forms of enframing that throws Being into standing reserve, rendering all disposable
Spanos 99
(William, Professor at Binghamton University, America's Shadow: An Anatomy of Empire p. 18-19)TR
The same ideological agenda becomes manifest… imperial Roman antiquity.
Failure to analyze how the biopolitical machine politicizes bare life ensures serial policy failure—we will repeatedly reproduce the same problem we seek to solve
Agamben 04 (Giorgio, Italian Continental Philosopher and current Professor at Accademia di Archiettura Mendrisio, “The open: Man and animal,” Stanford University Press, pg. 75-78)ds
Heidegger was perhaps the last philosopher… animal coincides with a total animalization of man.
(Alt.) Thus the alternative- Reject the aff’s methodology and embrace the mindset of the nomad- the genealogical path opened by nomadism is the only way to disrupt the status quo and current hegemonic structures that have led to this permanent state of exception
Spanos 8 (William, Distinguished Professor of Literature/Baller, American Exceptionalism in the Age of Globalization-The Spector of Vietnam, p. 28-31 TR)
The “political Left” of the 1980s, which inaugurated… national and international polity. It is, in short, polyvalent in its imperial applications.

Tournament: Neregional | Round: 5 | Opponent: George Mason Gitahi-Ghanem | Judge: Patrice
The complex and nuanced nature of society is reduced to something that can be clinically observed and addressed.  This conception of China as a knowable entity entrenches a self/other dichotomy that makes critical reflection impossible.  This prescription of Chinese identity from the outside legitimates the most coercive forms of power politics.
Chengxin Pan, June-July 2004, “The “China threat” in American self-imagination: the discursive construction of other as power politics,” Alternatives, Vol 29 Issue 3, p. infotrac
While U.S. China scholars argue fiercely… It is in this context that this article seeks to make a contribution.

The affirmative’s claims to how China will act and react to certain policies like the plan depends on a rationalization of China—this flawed positivist epistemology seeks to render all of the international arena knowable and predictable—the result is the inevitable emergence of a ‘China threat’ based on orientalization
Chengxin Pan 4 prof school of international and political studies, Deakin U. PhD in pol sci and IR, “The "China threat" in American self-imagination: the discursive construction of other as power politics,” 1 June 2004, http://www.articlearchives.com/asia/northern-asia-china/796470-1.html
Having examined how the "China threat" literature … hegemonic ambitions of U.S. foreign policy. 

VOTE NEGATIVE to reject the fantasy of ‘knowing’ China and to change the academic debate over China into a less dangerous format – failure to do so makes an escalatory nuclear arms race and war inevitable as a result of a US policy of containment.
Chengxin Pan, June-July 2004, “The "China threat" in American self-imagination: the discursive construction of other as power politics,” Alternatives, Vol 29 Issue 3, p. infotrac
I have argued above that the "China threat" argument… debating China might become possible.