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+Security is a speech act that manufactures low probability threats and worst case scenarios in order to build up the state’s defenses and defend its territory |
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+Lipschutz 1998 Ronnie, prof of politics at UC Santa Cruz, “Negotiating the Boundaries of Difference and Security at Millennium's End,” On Security, ed. Ronnie Lipschutz, http://www.ciaonet.org/book/lipschutz/index.html |
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+What then, is...the speech act. |
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+The alternative is to reject the affirmative’s appeals to securitization. To clarify: an action of the ballot. Questioning the conditions of possibility for power relations created through the affirmative’s representations refuses to participate in calculative and depoliticizing worst case scenario predictions. |
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+Edkins 1999 Jenny, Senior Lecturer in International Politics at the University of Wales Aberystwyth, Postructuralism and International Relations: Bringing the Political Back In, p. 1-3 |
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+Ironically, what we...power to emerge?"12 |
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+Language matters- debating the affirmative’s representations is key to overcoming dominant descriptions of agents and objects in international relations |
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+Der Derian 98 (James, a Watson Institute research professor of international studies and directs the Information Technology, War, and Peace Project and the Global Media Project, “International/Intertextual Relations: Postmodern Readings of World Politics”, Lexington Books, p.13) |
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+Once we give...the language analysis. |