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African Stability 1NCA. The affirmative securitizes Africa. The 1AC framing of Africa on the verge of chaos filters policy options into artificial choices of threat containment or elimination. Rita Abrahamsen, Department of International Politics - University of Wales, ‘5 (Alternatives 30, “Blair’s Africa: The Politics of Securitization and Fear”) It is this process of securitization that can be seen in key elements of New Labour's policies toward Africa…………… eliminate—the perceived threat.20 B. Securitized policymaking expands fear of Otherness and perpetuates underlying causes of instability and conflict. Rita Abrahamsen, Department of International Politics - University of Wales, ‘5 (Alternatives 30, “Blair’s Africa: The Politics of Securitization and Fear”) The process of securitization does not necessarily or immediately give rise………….. to radically underlying causes of "state failure," rather than contribute to their solution. C. This need to secure against dangerous Others guarantees perpetual destruction in the name of threat management. Peter Coviello, Asst Prof of English – Bowdoin, ‘1 (Queer Frontiers, ed. Boone, author’s italics) Perhaps. But to claim that American culture is at present decisively postnuclear is not to say that the world we inhabit is in any way post-apocalypti…… initiative that can scarcely be done without. D. Vote negative to reject the 1AC’s security framing. Rita Abrahamsen, Department of International Politics - University of Wales, ‘5 (Alternatives 30, “Blair’s Africa: The Politics of Securitization and Fear”) Importantly though, such policies are not to be understood exclusively……. social and economic troubles. C. The Alternative – Vote negative to criticize the security logic of the 1AC. Effective criticism requires suspending the aff’s agenda for action. Roland Bleiker, Associate Professor – University of Queensland, ‘1 (The Zen of International Relations, “Forget IR Theory,” p. 37-9) Stories, so we are told by prevailing social science wisdom, are not part of international relations…………. and less violence-prone practice of world politics. Somaliland CPCP Text: The United States Federal Government should officially Recognize the territory of Somaliland as a sovereign Country Recognition of Somaliland is crucial to curb Radical ideologies and terrorism Professor Schraeder 06, professor in the Department of Political Science at Loyola University Chicago. He writes on African politics and U.S. Africa policy (Peter J. “Why the United States Should Recognize Somaliland’s Independence” CSIS: African Policy Forumn. http://forums.csis.org/africa/?p=19, December 19th.) Zimbabwe CPText: The United States federal government should < THE COUNTEPRLAN SOLVES -- WE SHOULD SUSPEND ALL AID TO ZIMBABWE—IT DOESN’T GET TO THE PEOPLE – THIS ALSO GIVES US UNIQUENESS TO OUR NET-BENEFITS Schaefer 07 [Brett D., Jay Kingham Fellow in International Regulatory Affairs in the Margaret Thatcher Center for Freedom of the Kathryn and Shelby Cullom Davis Institute for International Studies, The Heritage Foundation, “The Crisis in Zimbabwe: How the US Should Respond,” March 23, 2007 http://www.heritage.org/Research/Africa/wm1407.cfm] A. Mugabe is on the verge of losing control of Zimbabwe – coup attempts and economic downturn prove the brink. Laurence 6/29. [Patrick, staff writer of Zimbabwe Independent, 2007, “Zimbabwe: Mugabe Risks More than Displacement in a Coup”] / B. THE PLAN’S ASSISTANCE WILL BE HIJACKED BY MUGABE TO INCREASE HIS POLITICAL SUPPORT AND STRANGLEHOLD OVER THE ZIMBABWE PEOPLE Williams and Sinnerton 2007 [Evan, staff reporter, and Siobhan, Director of UK Channel 4, May 18, “Zimbabwe: Mugabe’s Reign of Terror” http://www.channel4.com/news/articles/ontv/unreported_world/zimbabwe+mugabes+reign +of+terror/516247] The impact is genocide—any increase in Mugabe’s power means a campaign of mass murder that is 10 times greater than Darfur, and will kill millions Kirchick 07 [James, The New Republic, “Killing them softly: The Other African Genocide, March 12, http://www.orwelltoday.com/zimbabwegenocide.shtml] European Union CPThe European Union should do the plan Development KDISCOURSE OF DEVELOPMENT IS CENTRAL TO DISCUSSIONS OF AFRICA – WESTERN EXPERTS FIND PROBLEMS LIKE POVERTY AND BACKWARDNESS WHICH LOCK IN THE CONTINUAL NEED FOR DEVELOPMENTArturo Escobar, Kenan Distinguished Professor of Anthropology, UNC-Chapel Hill, ‘95 (“Encountering Development: The Making and Unmaking of the Third World”, p. 5-7) Until the late 1970s, the central stake in discussions on Asia…… and imaginatively during the postEnlightenment period. (1979, 3)
Arturo Escobar, Kenan Distinguished Professor of Anthropology, UNC-Chapel Hill, ‘95 (“Encountering Development: The Making and Unmaking of the Third World”, p. 52-54) The crucial threshold and transformation that took place in the early post– World War II period discussed in this chapter were the result not of a radical epistemological or political breakthrough but of the reorganization of a number of factors that allowed…………. To them I dedicate the coming chapter. Directory: file -> view view -> Western Europe after wwii view -> Author study: paul fleischman view -> Qpa1 7ela study Guide view -> Arctic Oil/Gas Neg view -> November 1970 Approximately 150,000-500,000 deaths Bhola Cyclone Bangladesh view -> Grade Level: 6 Unit of Study: Caribbean glce view -> Citation: Duffield, Katy view -> Table of Contents Lesson # view -> Chinese Wind Energy Disad Download 2.81 Mb. Share with your friends:
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