Tournament: Longhorn | Round: 1 | Opponent: Northland Christian LB | Judge: Devin Hernandez
Biden’s Presidency represents a new turning point away from prior ideology of securitization
Bentley 21 Michelle Bentley, 2-4-2021, "Joe Biden's first foreign policy speech – an expert explains what it means for the world," Conversation, https://theconversation.com/joe-bidens-first-foreign-policy-speech-an-expert-explains-what-it-means-for-the-world-154757 ZS
One of the main takeaways from the speech is that Biden is setting
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means for the future of the “Special Relationship” is anyone’s guess.
The aff’s security rhetoric and discourse reverses this, reifying security logic and manifesting into hegemonic state policies that transform political action. They’ll ask for lines in the aff, so here’s a bunch: “U.S. benevolent hegemony” “critical to preventing global authoritarianism” “a plethora of existential threats” “America is at a tipping point”
Echavarría ’06 (Josefina Echavarría, PhD in Peace, Conflict, and Democracy; Senior Lecturer for the United for Peace and Conflict Studies, “Re-thinking (in)security discourses from a critical perspective,” (2006), https://www.libraryofsocialscience.com/assets/pdf/Rethinking_insecurity_Asteriskos_01.pdf) IP brackets in original ev recut SMHS ZS
In this specific point of the discussion, it is of extreme relevance to underscore
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, security policies recreate the interests and the attributes of the state itself.
The impact is an inevitable cycle of violence and war. Security logic results in an insatiable feeling of insecurity that leads us to perpetuate conflict in a never-ending quest for “safety”
Chernus 1—Ira Chernus, Professor of Religious Studies at the University of Colorado at Boulder “Fighting Terror in The National Insecurity State,” http://spot.colorado.edu/~chernus/WaronTerrorismEssays/FightingTerror.htm SMHS ZS
Just as the outcome of World War I sowed the seeds of World War II
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suffering. The national insecurity state affords no prospect beyond death and suffering.
Empirics prove- the war in Iraq was manufactured by the same rhetoric present in the aff
Covington 05 LaKesha Nicole Covington, "From 9/11 to Iraq: Analysis and critique of the rhetoric of the Bush Administration leading to the war in Iraq, " 2005, https://scholarworks.lib.csusb.edu/etd-project/2916 ZS
However, what I did not expect to find was that this quest for a
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this information was complete or they did not care if it was incomplete.
The alt is to reject the aff in favor of a deconstruction of their threat construction.
This dismantles the threats of the 1ac and the military industrial complex’s hold on imagination.
Smith 2005 Professor of International Politics at the University of Wales, President of the International Studies Association (Steve, “Critical security studies and world politics”, ed: Ken Booth, “The contested concept of security”, p. 51)
In a later book, National Deconstruction, Campbell offers an illuminating account of the
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a lasting solution to problems can be, or has been, reached.