Tournament: | Round: 1 | Opponent: most everyone | Judge: whoever will listen
The goal of economic engagement is to alter a target state’s behavior in order to “socialize” them into the US’ existing world order
Borer, Professor @ the Naval Postgraduate School, 2004
(Douglas A, U.S. Army War College Guide to National Security Policy and Strategy,
CHAPTER 12 PROBLEMS OF ECONOMIC STATECRAFT: RETHINKING ENGAGEMENT, http://www.au.af.mil/au/awc/awcgate/army-usawc/strategy2004/12borer.pdf Accessed 7/6/13 GAL)
The policy of engagement refers to the use ....as well as carrots. . . . Otherwise, concessions will signal weakness that emboldens the aggressor to¶ demand more.22
The affirmative’s discursive and literal economic intervention into Latin America is a continuation of the American manifest destiny project, an attempt to manage, develop and civilize Latin countries
Slater, Dept of Geography – Loughborough University, 2006. (David, “Imperial powers and democratic imaginations,” Third World Quarterly Vol. 27, No. 8)
One response to this question is to ...crucial element in the process of justification of geopolitical power.
The Aff’s desire to continue the US’ attempt at global management and mastery causes extinction from hegemonic imperialism, and inevitable north-south conflict
FOSTER 05 (JOHN, MONTHLY REVIEW, SEPTEMBER, VOL 57, ISS 4 “NAKED IMPERIALISM”)
Yet, ill-fated attempts by individual states to ...drive for planetary domination, foreshadow what is potentially the most dangerous period in the history of imperialism.
The alternative to is to re-interrogate the problem solution mindset utilized by the affirmative by rejecting the United State federal government’s, and the affirmative who role-plays on its behalf, attempt to master and manage the globe. Their attempts to plan and manage and order the world reduces all life to a standing reserve which makes the third world and its people a resource subject to sacrifice.
Norman k. Swazo, Prof of philosophy and chair of department of philosophy and humanities at U Alaska, Fairbanks. 2002, crisis theory and world order heideggerian reflections ,72-73.
In a memorial address delivered in 1955 ... "the meaning that reigns in this change remains obscure."
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The Affirmative’s fiated plan-focus paradigm attempts to reduce all life to ordered problems in need of a policy solution. Only an abdication of our desire to master the world can avoid serial policy failure.
Dillon and Reid 2000
(Michael and Julian, Professor of Politics and International Relations at the University of Lancaster, GLOBAL GOVERNANCE, LIBERAL PEACE, AND COMPLEX EMERGENCY, Alternatives: Social Transformation and Humane Governance, Jan-Mar2000, Vol. 25, Issue 1)
More specifically, where there is a policy problematic... as well as Foucauldian "biopower" ways.