Tournament: Navy | Round: 3 | Opponent: George Mason JN | Judge: Braden Picardi
The affirmatives political methodology for addressing conflict is founded in stereotypes of fear, producing inaccurate scholarship.
Kaldor 13, Mary Kaldor, professor of Global Governance at the London School of Economics and Director of the Civil Society and Human Security Research Unit, “In Defence of New Wars,” March 7, 2013, Stability, 2(1): 4, pp. 1-16, http://www.stabilityjournal.org/article/download/sta.at/40E2808E

The most common criticism of the ‘new wars’ argument is that new wars are
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is a model that entails a specific political, economic and military logic.
Recreation of these stereotypes entrenches the existing power structure ensuring globalized war and structural violence
Kaldor 99, Mary Kaldor, professor of Global Governance a the London School of Economics and Director of the Civil Society and Human Security Research Unit, New and Old Wars, 1999, Stanford University Press, pg 110-111

The new wars have political goals. The aim is political mobilization on the basis
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, how islands of civility might offer a counterlogic to the new warfare.
The alternative is to reject the 1ACs outdated conceptions of sovereignty and war to interrupt the cycle of acting so that we may update policy planning to fit a changing world
Kaldor 05, Mary Kaldor, professor of Global Governance at the London School of Economics and Director of the Civil Society and Human Security Research Unit, “Old Wars, Cold Wars, New Wars, and the War on Terror,” International Politics, 42.4, December 2005, pg 497-498

By analysing New War in terms of social relations of warfare, we come up
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, does not reduce that insecurity. Indeed, it makes it worse.

Tournament: Vanderbilt | Round: 1 | Opponent: Indiana NS | Judge: Rebecca Steiner
Counterplan Text: The Counsel to the President of the United States should request to the Office of Legal Counsel for legal counsel and coordination on the President’s war powers authority. The Office of Legal Counsel should advise the President that he should _.
CP is competitive and solves the case ---- Coordination with OLC can ensure executive action

BORRELLI et al 2000 - Professor of Government Chair of the Government and International Relations Department, Connecticut College (Maryanne Borrelli, Karen Hult, Nancy Kassop, “The White House Counsel’s Office”, http://whitehousetransitionproject.org/files/counsel/Counsel-OD.PDF)

The White House Counsel’s Office is at the hub of all presidential activity. Its
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hard to calculate. (Gray interview, pp. 18-19)

Tournament: Vanderbilt | Round: 1 | Opponent: Indiana NS | Judge: Rebecca Steiner
CIR will pass now but it will be tough
Nowicki, 10-30 -- Arizona Republic's national political reporter
Dan, and Erin Kelly, "Fleeting Hopes for Immigration Reform," AZ Central, 10-30-13, www.azcentral.com/news/politics/articles/20131029fleeting-hopes-immigration-reform.html?nclick_check=1, accessed 10-31-13, mss

However, reform backers point to encouraging signs in addition to the intense push by
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is not like renaming a post office. It’s going to be tough.”

Political capital is necessary to get a deal done
Stokols 10/17/13 (Eli, FOX News Denver, "Analysis: Obama's Quick Pivot To immigration Reform")

To all my friends in Congress, understand that how business is done in this
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and appears closed to Hispanics and other minorities heading into next year’s midterms.¶ 

Having to defend authority derails the current agenda
Kriner 10 Douglas L. Kriner (assistant professor of political science at Boston University) “After the Rubicon: Congress, Presidents, and the Politics of Waging War”, University of Chicago Press, Dec 1, 2010, page 68-69.
While congressional support leaves the president’s reserve of political capital intact, congressional criticism saps
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to its costs than if Congress stood behind him in the international arena. 

Reform key to the economy – decline in immigration spurs new recession.
Smith 12. Gerry, technology reporter, "Brain Drain: Why We're Driving Immigration Talent Overseas" Huffington Post -- November 5 -- www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/11/09/immigrant-entrepreneur_n_2077183.html
Stories like his are not unique. They’re also troubling for the U.S
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is because they are struggling to secure visas to remain in the country.

Economic decline causes nuclear war.
ROYAL ‘10 – Director of Cooperative Threat Reduction at the U.S. Department of Defense (Jedediah, “Economic Integration, Economic Signaling and the Problem of Economic Crises,” in Economics of War and Peace: Economic, Legal and Political Perspectives, ed. Goldsmith and Brauer, p. 213-215)

Less intuitive is how periods of economic decline may increase the likelihood of external conflict
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such, the view presented here should be considered ancillary to those views.

Tournament: Vanderbilt | Round: 1 | Opponent: Indiana NS | Judge: Rebecca Steiner
War powers policy analysis is plagued with flawed scholarship based on constructed threats to US national security – these threats reify the power of the executive while resulting in endless warfare – questioning the underlying assumptions of the knowledge presented in the 1AC is critical to creating a base for substantive political change
Rana, ’11 Aziz Rana received his A.B. summa cum laude from Harvard College and his J.D. from Yale Law School. He also earned a Ph.D. in political science at Harvard, where his dissertation was awarded the university's Charles Sumner Prize. He was an Oscar M. Ruebhausen Fellow in Law at Yale; “Who Decides on Security?”; 8/11/11; Cornell Law Library; http://scholarship.law.cornell.edu/clsops_papers/87/

Despite such democratic concerns, a large part of what makes today’s dominant security concept
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, we can expect our prevailing security arrangements to become ever more entrenched. 

The mindset of endless threats is a self-fulfilling prophecy leading to the constant creation of more threats
Lipschutz 1998
Ronnie, Director – Politics PhD Program, UC Santa Cruz, “On Security” p. 8

Security is, to put Wæver's argument in other words, a socially constructed  concept
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fears onto the other; in this respect, their relationship is intersubjective. 

Security discourse sanitizes global destruction by proliferating symptom-focused solutions to power imbalances—-causes cycles of violence that make global warfare and extinction inevitable—adopt the role of a critical intellectual to question the claims of the 1AC
Ahmed, ‘11 2011, Dr. Nafeez Mosaddeq Ahmed is Executive Director of the Institute for Policy Research and Development IPRD, an independent think tank focused on the study of violent conflict, he has taught at the Department of International Relations, University of Sussex "The international relations of crisis and the crisis of international relations: from the securitisation of scarcity to the militarisation of society" Global Change, Peace 26 Security Volume 23, Issue 3, Taylor Francis
This analysis thus calls for a broader approach to environmental security based on retrieving the
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, effective, and joined-up policy-making on these issues.