Tournament: Johns Creek | Round: 1 | Opponent: Chattahoochee SS | Judge:
Security driven economic engagement with Latin America authorizes international violence while criminalizing dissent – the 1AC exhibits a discourse of security that provides the rationale for global domination.
Figueredo 7 Dari?o Salinas, Professor in the Graduate Program in Social Sciences at the Universidad Iberoamericana, Mexico City, specialist in Latin American Studies at the CONACYT National System of Researchers, Latin American Perspectives, Issue 152, Vol. 34 No. 1, January, “Hegemony in the Coordinates of U.S. Policy: Implications for Latin America,” Translated by Marlene Medrano, p. 95-98
The mobilization of an external threat,…of regional stability.
Security politics authorizes limitless global destruction.
Der Derian 98 (James, Professor of Political Science at the University of Massachusetts, On Security, Ed. Lipschutz, p. 24-25)
No other concept … a fearful sameness.
Reject the Aff’s security discourse – abandoning the attempt to eradicate insecurity is a prerequisite to meaningful political engagement.
Neocleous 8 Mark, Professor of the Critique of Political Economy at Brunel University, Critique of Security, p. 185-186
The only way out … return the gift.143