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Ban Drone Strikes
Tournament: UMKC | Round: 1 | Opponent: K-State | Judge: Text- The United States Federal Government should reject the use of drone strikes in every instance and the security mindset that normalizes it.
Congress solves better Bellia 2002 (Patricia Bellia, Professor of Law and Notre Dame Presidential Fellow, Spring 2002, “Executive Power in Youngstown’s Shadows,” Constitutional Commentary, Lexis) We can in fact … "disruption among the three coequal branches of government."
Moral obligation to bridge the gap between theoretical and pragmatic approaches---scholars must engage in the policy debate González ‘6 (Francisco E.- Riordan Roett Senior Associate Professor of Latin American Studies at Johns Hopkins and British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow at Nuffield College at the University of Oxford; was a professorial lecturer at SAIS's Bologna Center and a lecturer in politics at St. John's College at the University of Oxford; received 2006 SAIS Excellence in Teaching Award; Ph.D., politics, University of Oxford; “POLITICS AND POLICIES”; http://lasa.international.pitt.edu/LARR/prot/fulltext/vol48no1/48-1_221-227_gonzales.pdf) The growing interest in … to this endeavor.
10/8/13
Ban Indefinite Detention CP
Tournament: Kentucky | Round: 2 | Opponent: Cornell PW | Judge: Text: The United States Congress should ban the practice of indefinite detention.
In written testimony, ….. detainees from Guantanamo.
10/8/13
Cap K
Tournament: Kentucky | Round: 2 | Opponent: Cornell PW | Judge: The affirmatives belief in the law is an act of economic and cultural repression – kowtowing to this system of ideology ignores the nonsensical and often dominating nature of the Law Keenan, Professor of Philosophy at Fairfield University, 2004 Dennis King, Hypatia, fall page proquest The Real, for Lacan, ….. the other of the same (CM 38-39/BI 26).
The system of capital makes social exclusion on a global scale inevitable – the utmost ethico-political responsibility is to reject this system of economic evaluation Zizek and Daly 2k4 (Slavoj and Glyn, Conversations with Zizek page 14-16) For Zizek it is …. an otherwise sound matrix.
Our alternative is to completely withdraw from the ideology of capital – this is essential to destroy the fetish that allows capital to survive Johnston, interdisciplinary research fellow in psychoanalysis at Emory University, 2004 Adrian, Psychoanalysis, Culture and Society, December v9 i3 p259 page infotrac Perhaps the absence … I choose fetishism").
10/8/13
Covert Action CP Cyber Security
Tournament: Kentucky | Round: 8 | Opponent: Baylor EB | Judge: Text: The President of the United States should issue an executive order clarifying that offensive cyber operations presumptively rely on covert action authority and, unless being conducted as part of a conflict already authorized by Congress, require classified ex ante reports to congressional intelligence committees or the “Gang of Eight” whenever possible. When ex ante reports are not possible, the President must submit a timely ex post report with an explanation for the necessity of the delay.
Counterplan is the best middle ground --- solves oversight and legal legitimacy of cyberattacks while preserving presidential flexibility --- doesn’t link to politics Brecher 12 Aaron Brecher is a JD candidate @ the University of Michigan Law School. “Cyberattacks and the Covert Action Statute: Toward a Domestic Legal Framework for Offensive Cyberoperations,” December, 111 Mich. L. Rev. 423, Lexis This Part argues that the … to be left to the president alone. n156
10/8/13
Cyber Security DA
Tournament: Kentucky | Round: 8 | Opponent: Baylor EB | Judge: The US maintains cyber superiority now – but de-emphasizing offensive cyber operations causes us to fall behind Steven Aftergood, 8/26/2013, Federation of American Scientists, "US cyber offense is 'the best in the world." http://blogs.fas.org/secrecy/2013/08/cyber-offense/
The subject of offensive … of our Cyber Mission Forces.”
Restrictions on offensive cyber operations crush our cyber superiority – that makes cyber attacks inevitable Jan Kallberg, 2/17/2013, (Kallberg is a researcher at the Cyber Security Research and Educational Center at the University of Texas at Dallas), Defense News, "Offensive Cyber: Superiority or Stuck in Legal Hurdles?" http://works.bepress.com/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1021andcontext=jan_kallberg
At a time when the United … costs in the alternative: traditional kinetic warfare.
The US Navy announced … advantage," Dorsett told reporters.
Strong navy de-escalates all conflict and deters great power war Roughead, 7 -- Admiral, US Navy, Chief of Naval Operations Gary, James Conway, General, US Marine Corps, and Thad Allen, Admiral, US Coast Guard, "A Cooperative Strategy for 21st Century Seapower," Oct 2007, www.navy.mil/maritime/Maritimestrategy.pdf, accessed 1-24-13, mss
This strategy reaffirms … conventionally, unconventionally, and with nuclear forces.
10/8/13
DOD Transfer CP
Tournament: UMKC | Round: 4 | Opponent: | Judge: Text: The President of the United States should direct that U.S. drone strikes be conducted as D.O.D. Title 10 operations.
Executive consolidation of drone strike authority within the D.O.D. increases Congressional oversight and transparency while establishing a strong international precedent Micah Zenko, April 2013, (Douglass Dillon Fellow), Council on Foreign Relations, "Transferring CIA drone strikes to the Pentagon," http://www.cfr.org/drones/transferring-cia-drone-strikes-pentagon/p30434
In 2004, the 9/11 Commission recommended that the "lead responsibility for AND Obama administration claims can have a normative influence on how others use drones.
"For decades the White House, the Congress have used the debt limit to AND said. "They know they shouldn't be playing havoc with the markets."
The plan is unpopular – it will polarize Congress Samuel Issacharoff and Richard Pildes, June 2013, (Both are professors at the New York University School of Law), "Drones and the Dilemma of Modern Warfare," NYU School of Law Public Law Research Paper No. 13-34, Social Science Research Network, p. 12-14
The centrality of dynamic targeting in the active theaters such as the¶ border areas AND such as¶ the intelligence committees, to play this role effectively.65 Loss of PC forces Obama to negotiate over debt ceiling preconditions – causes extended battle Chait, 13 Jonathan Chait, commentator and writer for New York magazine. He was previously a senior editor at The New Republic and a former assistant editor of The American Prospect. He also writes a periodic column in the Los Angeles Times, New York Magazine, 4/26/13, http://diaryofarepublicanhater.blogspot.com/2013/04/faa-il-have-democrats-lost-on.html
"Obama's mistake wasn't the design of sequestration. It was finding himself in that AND capital and the President considerably less so he may have had to negotiate.
Investors are focused on how monetary policy will play out this summer. But on AND mar the economic outlook — and the U.S. credit rating.
Economic decline causes nuclear war Cesare Merlini 11, nonresident senior fellow at the Center on the United States and Europe and chairman of the Board of Trustees of the Italian Institute for International Affairs, May 2011, “A Post-Secular World?”, Survival, Vol. 53, No. 2 Two neatly opposed scenarios for the future of the world order illustrate the range of AND theocratic absolutes, competing or converging with secular absolutes such as unbridled nationalism.
"For decades the White House, the Congress have used the debt limit to AND said. "They know they shouldn't be playing havoc with the markets."
The plan is unpopular – it will polarize Congress Samuel Issacharoff and Richard Pildes, June 2013, (Both are professors at the New York University School of Law), "Drones and the Dilemma of Modern Warfare," NYU School of Law Public Law Research Paper No. 13-34, Social Science Research Network, p. 12-14
The centrality of dynamic targeting in the active theaters such as the¶ border areas AND such as¶ the intelligence committees, to play this role effectively.65 Loss of PC forces Obama to negotiate over debt ceiling preconditions – causes extended battle Chait, 13 Jonathan Chait, commentator and writer for New York magazine. He was previously a senior editor at The New Republic and a former assistant editor of The American Prospect. He also writes a periodic column in the Los Angeles Times, New York Magazine, 4/26/13, http://diaryofarepublicanhater.blogspot.com/2013/04/faa-il-have-democrats-lost-on.html
"Obama's mistake wasn't the design of sequestration. It was finding himself in that AND capital and the President considerably less so he may have had to negotiate.
Investors are focused on how monetary policy will play out this summer. But on AND mar the economic outlook — and the U.S. credit rating.
Economic decline causes nuclear war Cesare Merlini 11, nonresident senior fellow at the Center on the United States and Europe and chairman of the Board of Trustees of the Italian Institute for International Affairs, May 2011, “A Post-Secular World?”, Survival, Vol. 53, No. 2 Two neatly opposed scenarios for the future of the world order illustrate the range of AND theocratic absolutes, competing or converging with secular absolutes such as unbridled nationalism.
3/22/14
Debt Ceiling DA 20
Tournament: Kentucky | Round: 4 | Opponent: George Washington NS | Judge: The debt ceiling will get lifted now – but the vote count will be narrow Ashley Parker, 10-,3, 13, “Republicans Say Boehner Vows to Avert Default,” New York Times, http://www.nytimes.com/2013/10/04/us/politics/debt-limit-impasse.html?_r=0
With a budget …. , their employees and their shareholders.”
Unless President Obama can … last minute deal can be struck.
Obama’s capital is key Allen, Politico, 9-19-13 (Jonathan, “GOP battles boost President Obama”, dyn.politico.com/printstory.cfm?uuid=17961849-5BE5-43CA-B1BC-ED8A12A534EB)
There’s a simple reason …. country should pay its bills.
Default kills the economy, triggering global war
Markos Kaminas, 9-29, Seeking Alpha, 9-29, 13, http://seekingalpha.com/article/1718872-debt-ceiling-ignorance-and-the-horrific-economic-consequences (Wall Street Greek offers and#34;expertand#34; insight from the mind of a proven stock-picker, who over a period of five years, tallied a performance record placing him atop a group of 60 analysts in-house at a well-known firm. Markos Kaminis generated a 23 average annual return over 5 years and 26 over 3 years, while selecting stocks from a pool of small to mid-cap firms spanning all industry sectors.)
If investors are at all worried … about for investment assets?
10/8/13
Ex PostDamages CP
Tournament: UMKC | Round: 4 | Opponent: Not sure | Judge: Not sure The District Court for the District of Columbia should rule in a relevant test case that senior executive officials are liable for damages resulting from targeted killings.
The CP solves the case – the creation of ex ante liability for executive officials increases the transparency of targeted killing operations Jaffer, Director of the ACLU's Center for Democracy, 13 (Jameel, Judicial Review of Targeted Killings, Harvard Law Review, 2013, http://www.harvardlawreview.org/issues/126/april13/forum_1002.php, da 7-29-13)
Second, judicial engagement with the targeted killing program does not actually require the establishment AND judiciary to do what the Constitution already empowers and obliges it to do.
Rubber stamping turns the aff – an ex ante process results in unqualified judges signing off on even more targeted killings – that legal framework is worse than the squo– an ex post, damages system solves best Steve Vladeck, 2/10/2013, (PRofessor of Law and the Associate Dean for scholarship at American University Washington College of Law), Lawfare, "why a drone court won' work - but (nominal) damages might," http://www.lawfareblog.com/2013/02/why-a-drone-court-wont-work/
That brings me to perhaps the biggest problem we should all have with a “ AND and practically possible, a drone court would be a very dangerous idea.
3/22/14
Ex PostDamages CP
Tournament: UMKC | Round: 4 | Opponent: Not sure | Judge: Not sure The District Court for the District of Columbia should rule in a relevant test case that senior executive officials are liable for damages resulting from targeted killings.
The CP solves the case – the creation of ex ante liability for executive officials increases the transparency of targeted killing operations Jaffer, Director of the ACLU's Center for Democracy, 13 (Jameel, Judicial Review of Targeted Killings, Harvard Law Review, 2013, http://www.harvardlawreview.org/issues/126/april13/forum_1002.php, da 7-29-13)
Second, judicial engagement with the targeted killing program does not actually require the establishment AND judiciary to do what the Constitution already empowers and obliges it to do.
Rubber stamping turns the aff – an ex ante process results in unqualified judges signing off on even more targeted killings – that legal framework is worse than the squo– an ex post, damages system solves best Steve Vladeck, 2/10/2013, (PRofessor of Law and the Associate Dean for scholarship at American University Washington College of Law), Lawfare, "why a drone court won' work - but (nominal) damages might," http://www.lawfareblog.com/2013/02/why-a-drone-court-wont-work/
That brings me to perhaps the biggest problem we should all have with a “ AND and practically possible, a drone court would be a very dangerous idea.
3/22/14
Framework
Tournament: UMKC | Round: 1 | Opponent: K-State | Judge: A. Interpretation – The affirmative must affirm the topic instrumentally. The 1AC must include a topical plan that is only justified with a normative defense of federal government adoption of such a policy. The ballot only declares that the resolution is either true or false.
The topic is defined by the phrase following the colon – the USFG is the agent of the resolution, not the individual debaters Webster’s Guide to Grammar and Writing – 2000 http://ccc.commnet.edu/grammar/marks/colon.htm Use of a colon before a list or an explanation that is preceded by a clause that can stand by itself. Think of the colon as a gate, inviting one to go on… If the introductory phrase preceding the colon is very brief and the clause following the colon represents the real business of the sentence, begin the clause after the colon with a capital letter. Should denotes an expectation of enacting a plan American Heritage Dictionary – 2000 www.dictionary.com 3 Used to express probability or expectation
B. Violation – The affirmative is not an instrumental affirmation of the resolution – they affirm the topic as
C. Reasons to Prefer:
Ground –.
2. Topical Education –
3. Extra Topicality –
Bad Policymaking –
E. Voting Issue –
Also, this is a prerequisite to other arguments. Ruth Lesl Shively, Professor of Politics at Texas AandM, 2000 Partisan Politics and Political Theory, p. 181-2 In most cases…. agreement or harmony.
Particular politics are bad in the War on Terror – failure to address superstructures of violence guarantees the replication of militarism – their reformist ideology misses the boat in its totality Megret, Research Associate at the European University Institute, 2002 Frederic, German Law Journal, http://www.germanlawjournal.com/past_issues.php?id=141 5 But it is not clear that … the smaller problem for the bigger one.
While abuses carried … look like the easy part. Rights credibility fails Donnelly 2002(Jack, Professor of International Studies at the University of Denver, "Globalization and Human Rights", Page 230)
Second, the implicit “… , or how to get there.
10/8/13
Judicial Deference DA
Tournament: Kentucky | Round: 2 | Opponent: Cornell PW | Judge: Deference now Bazzle, J.D., Georgetown University Law Center, ‘12 Timothy, “SHUTTING THE COURTHOUSE DOORS:¶ INVOKING THE STATE SECRETS PRIVILEGE TO THWART¶ JUDICIAL REVIEW IN THE AGE OF TERROR”, Civil Rights Law Journal, Vol. 23, No. 1, 2012, RSR The war on terror … their due process rights.
Court action to eliminate indefinite detention makes effective warfighting impossible. (Also, congress CP avoids the DA) Chertoff 11 (Michael was the Secretary, Department of Homeland Security (2005-2009), THE DECLINE OF JUDICIAL DEFERENCE ON NATIONAL SECURITY, Rutgers Law Review, 3 February 2011, http://www.rutgerslawreview.com/wp-content/uploads/archive/vol63/Issue4/Chertoff_Speech_PDF.pdf, pg. 1125-1128)
So, where has this … national security issues.
Non-deferential judicial review kills military readiness Chensey 9 (Robert M. is a Professor at University of Texas School of Law, NATIONAL SECURITY FACT DEFERENCE, VIRGINIA LAW REVIEW, 17 September 2009, http://www.virginialawreview.org/content/pdfs/95/1361.pdf, pg. 1426-1428) Advocates of deference at … must be withheld on secrecy ¶ grounds.222
For if America falters, … dangerous slide into global turmoil.
10/8/13
Law K
Tournament: UMKC | Round: 4 | Opponent: Not sure | Judge: Not sure 1NC Next off is the Law K modeling of US legal norms is a vague, empty concept – instead of guaranteeing global peace, it rhetorically provides political cover for violent western interventionism that produces mass structural violence – must be rejected Mattei 9 – prof of law @ Hastings (Ugo, written with Marco de Morpurgo, M.Sc. Candidate, International University College of Turin, BOCCONI SCHOOL OF LAW, GLOBAL LAW and PLUNDER: THE DARK SIDE OF THE RULE OF LAW) What we can identify … something much larger. The impact is extinction – interventionism is unsustainable in the long-term and breeds asymmetric warfare and power balancing that escalates Foster 3 (John, Prof. Sociology - U of Oregon, Poli Sci at York U - Toronto, “The new Age of Imperialism,” Monthly Review 55.3) At the same time, ….. not the world's—undoing. The affirmative model of top-down Western legal development sacralizes the rule of law, which directly ensures military interventions and a fundamentally unequal world order. Our alternative is to rethink democratic development from the bottom-up. Cast your ballot in solidarity with the global resistance to the universalizing, falsely apolitical ‘norms’ of the 1ac Mattei 9 – prof of law @ Hastings (Ugo, written with Marco de Morpurgo, M.Sc. Candidate, International University College of Turin, BOCCONI SCHOOL OF LAW, GLOBAL LAW and PLUNDER: THE DARK SIDE OF THE RULE OF LAW) In the complex … global political realism.
3/22/14
Law K
Tournament: UMKC | Round: 4 | Opponent: Not sure | Judge: Not sure 1NC Next off is the Law K modeling of US legal norms is a vague, empty concept – instead of guaranteeing global peace, it rhetorically provides political cover for violent western interventionism that produces mass structural violence – must be rejected Mattei 9 – prof of law @ Hastings (Ugo, written with Marco de Morpurgo, M.Sc. Candidate, International University College of Turin, BOCCONI SCHOOL OF LAW, GLOBAL LAW and PLUNDER: THE DARK SIDE OF THE RULE OF LAW) What we can identify … something much larger. The impact is extinction – interventionism is unsustainable in the long-term and breeds asymmetric warfare and power balancing that escalates Foster 3 (John, Prof. Sociology - U of Oregon, Poli Sci at York U - Toronto, “The new Age of Imperialism,” Monthly Review 55.3) At the same time, ….. not the world's—undoing. The affirmative model of top-down Western legal development sacralizes the rule of law, which directly ensures military interventions and a fundamentally unequal world order. Our alternative is to rethink democratic development from the bottom-up. Cast your ballot in solidarity with the global resistance to the universalizing, falsely apolitical ‘norms’ of the 1ac Mattei 9 – prof of law @ Hastings (Ugo, written with Marco de Morpurgo, M.Sc. Candidate, International University College of Turin, BOCCONI SCHOOL OF LAW, GLOBAL LAW and PLUNDER: THE DARK SIDE OF THE RULE OF LAW) In the complex … global political realism.
3/22/14
National Security Court CP
Tournament: Kentucky | Round: 4 | Opponent: George Washington NS | Judge: CP Text: The Executive branch of the United States should create a National Security Court structured under Article III of the United States’ Constitution for the purposes of judicial review of United States’ indefinite detention policy.
Self-Restraint solves YOUR AUTHOR Zenko 13 (Micah, Dr. Zenko is a Douglas Dillon fellow in the Center for Preventive Action (CPA) at the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR), he worked for five years at Harvard University’s Kennedy School of Government, and in Washington, DC, at the Brookings Institution, Congressional Research Service, and State Departmentand#39;s Office of Policy Planning, Council Special Report No.65, January 2013, Reforming US Drone Strike Policies, i.cfr.org/content/publications/attachments/Drones_CSR65.pdf)
The president of the …. in response to ground-based antiaircraft fire or aerial combat).
10/8/13
Red Spread K
Tournament: UMKC | Round: 1 | Opponent: K-State | Judge: Their criticism is a form of asymmetrical warfare that seeks to undermine and collapse the United States. J.R. Nyquist, 8/28/09, Financial Sense, "The Sequence," http://www.financialsense.com/stormwatch/geo/pastanalysis/2009/0828.html In advance of any … I call "the sequence."
The collapse of the U.S. flips back your criticism. War and terrorism would proliferate and extinction would be insured. J.R. Nyquist, 5/27/2005, "Why the Bad Guys are Bad," http://www.financialsense.com/stormwatch/geo/pastanalysis/2005/0527.html The politics of Hitler … cannot be deterred.
Our alternative is to reject communism. The role of the ballot is to endorse a commitment to individual freedom. This act is a prerequisite to challenge collectivism. Richard M. Elbeling, Ludwig von Mises Prof. Econ. – Hillsdale College, President of Foundation for Economic Education, "Freedom's Greatest Challenge", June, 1990, http://www.fff.org/freedom/0690b.asp The friends of … important not to try.
10/8/13
Red Spread K
Tournament: UMKC | Round: 4 | Opponent: Not sure | Judge: Not sure Their criticism is a form of asymmetrical warfare that seeks to undermine and collapse the United States. J.R. Nyquist, 8/28/09, Financial Sense, "The Sequence," http://www.financialsense.com/stormwatch/geo/pastanalysis/2009/0828.html In advance of any … I call "the sequence."
The collapse of the U.S. flips back your criticism. War and terrorism would proliferate and extinction would be insured. J.R. Nyquist, 5/27/2005, "Why the Bad Guys are Bad," http://www.financialsense.com/stormwatch/geo/pastanalysis/2005/0527.html The politics of Hitler … cannot be deterred.
Our alternative is to reject communism. The role of the ballot is to endorse a commitment to individual freedom. This act is a prerequisite to challenge collectivism. Richard M. Elbeling, Ludwig von Mises Prof. Econ. – Hillsdale College, President of Foundation for Economic Education, "Freedom's Greatest Challenge", June, 1990, http://www.fff.org/freedom/0690b.asp The friends of … important not to try.
3/22/14
Red Spread K
Tournament: UMKC | Round: 4 | Opponent: Not sure | Judge: Not sure Their criticism is a form of asymmetrical warfare that seeks to undermine and collapse the United States. J.R. Nyquist, 8/28/09, Financial Sense, "The Sequence," http://www.financialsense.com/stormwatch/geo/pastanalysis/2009/0828.html In advance of any … I call "the sequence."
The collapse of the U.S. flips back your criticism. War and terrorism would proliferate and extinction would be insured. J.R. Nyquist, 5/27/2005, "Why the Bad Guys are Bad," http://www.financialsense.com/stormwatch/geo/pastanalysis/2005/0527.html The politics of Hitler … cannot be deterred.
Our alternative is to reject communism. The role of the ballot is to endorse a commitment to individual freedom. This act is a prerequisite to challenge collectivism. Richard M. Elbeling, Ludwig von Mises Prof. Econ. – Hillsdale College, President of Foundation for Economic Education, "Freedom's Greatest Challenge", June, 1990, http://www.fff.org/freedom/0690b.asp The friends of … important not to try.
3/22/14
Restrictions T
Tournament: Kentucky | Round: 2 | Opponent: Cornell PW | Judge: Interpretation: Restrictions are prohibitions on authority Jean Schiedler-Brown 12, Attorney, Jean Schiedler-Brown and Associates, Appellant Brief of Randall Kinchloe v. States Dept of Health, Washington, The Court of Appeals of the State of Washington, Division 1, http://www.courts.wa.gov/content/Briefs/A01/68642920Appellant20Randall20Kincheloe27s.pdf 3. The ordinary …… agree to restrict his license.
This means prohibition of an entire topic list area Corpus Juris Secundum 31 Volume 54, p. 735 RESTRICT: To confine; to limit; to prevent (a person or thing) from passing a certain limit in any kind of action; to restrain; to restrain without bounds.
VIOLATIONS: The plan only limits the scope of Presidential authority in the context of certain actions, not prohibit that authority and it does not restrict that authority in the entire area
Reasons to Prefer –
Limits and Ground –
powers authority –
Extra topical and FX T-
Topicality is a voting issue for education and competitive equity.
10/8/13
Security K
Tournament: UMKC | Round: 4 | Opponent: | Judge: The 1AC enframes the world in a perpetual drive to secure (in)security which makes widespread macropolitical violence and environmental destruction inevitable. The discourse of security relies on a flawed epistemological foundation of self-referential policy rationality Burke 7—Anthony, Senior Lecturer in Politics and International Relations at UNSW, Sydney “Ontologies of War: Violence, Existence and Reason,” Theory and Event, 10.2, Muse My argument here, whilst normatively sympathetic to Kantand#39;s moral demand for the eventual abolition AND to end the global rule of insecurity and violence? Will our thought?
The affirmative’s perception of terrorism is one that is used to justify military action Egerton, ‘9 ( Frazer received his Ph.D. from the Department of International Politics, University of Wales, Aberystwyth. His most recent publications are and#39;The Internet and Militant Jihadism: Global to Local Reimaginingsand#39;, in A. Karatzogianni (ed.) Cyber Conflict and Global Politics , London: Routledge (2008) and (with Nicholas J. Wheeler) and#39;Preciousand#39; commitment or a failure in action: the responsibility to protect after the 2005 UN World Summit, Global Responsibility to Protect 1 (1): 2009 , “A Case for a Critical Approach to Terrorism” https://mail.google.com/mail/?ui=2andik=a801bad751andview=lgandmsg=129ae8ffac17829a ) Terrorism is a word that solicits many definitions. Schmid and Jongman (1988) AND and masculinist and#39;culturaland#39; rituals and practices. Many more examples might be added.
We must question and reject the representational power politics that underwrite claims of U.S. “soft power”. Absent rethinking, “soft power” allows power politics to hide behind hollow ethics Janice Bially Mattern, ‘5, Asst. Prof. in the Dept. of IR at Lehigh Univ., Millennium: Journal of International Studies, Vol. 33, No. 3, p. 611-612 Finally, thinking about soft power through a sociolinguistic lens has some striking normative implications AND arise when using it as ‘a means to success in world politics’.
The alternative is to vote Negative to refuse the security politics of the 1AC
The logic of security is a self-replicating mode of being where the Other becomes the antithesis to the ideal state. That state is an illusion of power and manipulation that functions to order our understanding of the world through an ethnocentric and patriarchal conception of difference making violence inevitable. The Aff will say we have no choice but to avoid extinction scenarios but this just proves that security politics leaves you with no epistemological choice because calculations are “rationally” pre-determined the alternative is try-or die to affirm ethics, agency and value to life. Instead, we should refuse security politics to affirm agency as decision-makers. This opens up new avenues for ethical policy analysis to challenge and rewrite the politics of security Anthony Burke, ‘7, Senior Lecturer in Politics and International Relations at UNSW, Sydney, Beyond Security: Ethics and Violence War Against the Other, p. 51-53, JT/KF This critique of securityand#39;s Cartesian underpinnings opens up significant questions about its structure and operation AND or a security after security, and what its shimmering possibilities might be.
