Tournament: Greenhill | Round: 1 | Opponent: Meadows ER | Judge: Chris Randall

The Aff’s attempt to halt nuclear power production forgets about the already current nuclear arsenal of powerful Western nations – this masks the violence of imperialism

Chung, 14 
Chung, Alex H., B.A. (Hons) International Relations and Politics School of Social Sciences University of Notre Dame Australia (UNDA), "Postcolonial Perspectives on Nuclear Non-Proliferation." (2014) TF
Nuclear weapons were introduced to the world over 65 years ago by the United States
AND
of nuclear weapons (Maddock cited in Rotter 2011, p. 1175).

This justifies exploitation of nations we view as other – imperialism is the foundation for racism and genocide

Chung, 14 
Chung, Alex H., B.A. (Hons) International Relations and Politics School of Social Sciences University of Notre Dame Australia (UNDA), "Postcolonial Perspectives on Nuclear Non-Proliferation." (2014) TF
Unlike neorealists, liberals do not entirely disregard the existence of ‘weak’ states,
AND
in the Middle East, is also one of its few rational actors."

The alternative is to embrace non-western forms of knowledge production – our strategy is critical to integrating the historically marginalized perspectives

Andrews, 12
~"The Big Bang Theories of International Relations (IR): Who Said What, When, How, and What’s Missing" Nathan Andrews June 13-15, 2012 Canadian Political Science Association URL: https://www.cpsa-acsp.ca/papers-2012/Andrews.pdf~~
First, non-Western IR reveals the possibility of a field of study that
AND
definitive form" (Cox 1995, 14; see also Shani 2008).