Scholarly and bipartisan consensus exists for a move away from US
dominance
Amy Chua, Yale Law, 10-25-09. Professor at Yale Law School, is the
author of ''World on Fire: How Exporting Free Market Democracy Breeds
Ethnic Hatred and Global Instability'' and ''Day of Empire: How
Hyperpowers Rise to Global Dominance -- and Why They Fall.'' NYT,
Lexis.
Neoliberalism, which dominated the decade AND is a return to the past.

Unipolarity is crumbling – Obama is abandoning preeminence
Jeffrey T. Kuhner, Burke Institute President, 9-24-09. President of
the Edmund Burke Institute, a Washington-based think tank. “End of
America's moment: A stunning retreat from superpower status,”
Washington Times, http://washingtontimes.com/news/2009/se … _featured.
America is no longer a superpowerAND poverty and achieving Middle East
peace.

^ Fun quote from this one (You K debaters will know what to do.)
"Mr. Obama is not a political Messiah. He cannot part the waters or eradicate world poverty and disease. He is striving to achieve something that has never been done in history - anywhere. This is because the natural state of humanity is poverty; it has been with us since the beginning of time. For most of the world, it has been the predominant condition. Hence, it is not poverty that needs to be understood, but the creation of wealth."

Maintaining military intervention forces blocks a *world-changing*
progressive shift towards multipolarity
Noam Chomsky, 10-5-09. Institute Professor & Professor of Linguistics
(Emeritus) at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. “Barack Obama
and the ‘Unipolar Moment’” In These Times,
http://www.inthesetimes.com/article/499 … r_moment/.
Every powerful state relies on specialists AND marks a progressive
change in history.

Lieber and Press are right about perception but wrong about roles –
counterforce and primacy cause escalatory nuclear war
Matt Eckel, 10-21-09. BA in Political Science from McGill University
in Montreal, Quebec, and currently studying social science at the
University of Chicago. “Nuclear Logic,” FP Watch,
http://fpwatch.blogspot.com/2009/10/nuclear-logic.html.
To their credit, Lieber and AND a more rational way to go.

1ar unipolarity
Unipolarity = heg collapse inevitable
Ikenberry et al 9, wold politics, 61.1, muse
Articles in this special issue argue that the shift … capabilities of
the united states.

Unipolarity hurts alliances
Walt 9, world politics, 61.1
Over time, the literature on intra-alliance relations … seek more
reliable partners

Brooks and wolforth answer
Layne 09, ‘the waning of us hegemony—myth or reality?’ International
security
Unipolarity remains the focus of intense debate among … process of
multipolarization

Peaceful transition now
Starobin 9
In a multipolar world of nation-states … heartless that way

Transition theory flawed
Nexon 9, ‘world politics,’ 61.2, muse
Hegemonic order and power transition accounts … hegemonic
overextension.

Conventional counterforce solves
Lieber and press, 9, foreign affairs, 88.6, ‘the nukes we need’
The united states also needs conventional counterforce … fair chance
of success.

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