Tournament: Valley | Round: 1 | Opponent: Oakwood AM | Judge: McConway
The standard is resisting orientalism. The Orient is as a geopolitical construct, deeply engrained in Western language, culture, politics, ethics, and ontology. It creates a totalizing East and West, where the East is defined as merely other than the West. A critical centering of Orientalism is an epistemic prerequisite to discussion of global politics, and so is necessitated by the resolution's question of what is ethical for 'countries'. Said:
Orientalism, Edward Said, New York: Vintage, 1979
Taking the late eighteenth century as a very roughly defined starting point Orientalism can be
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without taking account of the limitations on thought and action imposed by Orientalism.
Professor of International Politics and the Director of the Centre for International Relations at the King's College London 06 ~Vivienne, "War, Security and the Liberal State" Security Dialogue http://sdi.sagepub.com/cgi/reprint/37/1/47~~====
What I want to
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enemies, internal and external.
And, academic spaces like debate are uniquely key to interrogating Orientalism from outside its hegemonic grips. Biswas:
Shampa Biswas 2007 Empire and Global Public Intellectuals: Reading Edward Said as an International Relations Theorist
This is especially true for scholars of the global writing in this age of globalisation
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of all, their ability and willingness to be seduced by power.17
To this end, fiat is the best political method. We need to engage in politics and develop pragmatic advocacy skills in order to create any real change. Alinsky gives two warrants:
RULES FOR RADICALS A Practical Primer for Realistic Radicals SAUL D. ALINSKY 1971
What I have to say in this book is not the arrogance of unsolicited advice
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of a coming massive repression in the name of "law and order."
The NWS/NNWS divide has created a worldview at the heart of this disproportionate enforcement and a new age of nuclear orientalism. Gusterson 1:
Hugh Gusterson. "A Double Standard on Nuclear Weapons?," MIT Center for International Studies Audit of the Conventional Wisdom, 06-08 (April 2006).
There has long been a widespread perception among U.S. defense intellectuals,
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This is especially pressing as we enter a more complex nuclear age in which MAD can no longer protect us. The US and Russia still have more than enough nukes to destroy all life on Earth. Schultz et al 1:
Apart from the
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during the Cold War?
Non-proliferation is futile as long as the western powers the rest of the world must compete with refuse to cooperate on disarmament. Countries naturally want non-proliferation and disarmament, as long as it does not seem to weaken their place in global politics. Gusterson 2:
Hugh Gusterson. "A Double Standard on Nuclear Weapons?," MIT Center for International Studies Audit of the Conventional Wisdom, 06-08 (April 2006).
The second position, participation, is based on Kenneth Waltz's argument that all countries
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to shift the balance of power in their client relationships with the superpowers.
Thus, I advocate for a joint enterprise among nuclear powers and members of the NPT to fully enforce the NPT and move towards global disarmament. Schultz et al 2:
(A WORLD FREE OF NUCLEAR WEAPONS By George P. Shultz, William J. Perry, Henry A. Kissinger and Sam Nunn The Wall Street Journal January 4, 2007
http://disarmament.nrpa.no/wp-content/uploads/2008/02/A_WORLD_FREE.pdf DFS)
The Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) envisioned the end of all nuclear weapons
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the actions, the vision will not be perceived as realistic or possible.
