Tournament: Alta | Round: 3 | Opponent: Desert Vista ZR | Judge: Jordan Bird
The 1AC methodology entrenches systems of control that absorb otherness through hegemonic means. This totality leads to a denial of human finitude and locks others into tyrannical power structures.
Wild, professor of philosophy, 80 – Professor of Philosophy at Yale University (John, Ph.D. from the University of Chicago, professor and chair of philosophy at Northwestern University, 2/29/80, Introduction to Totality and Infinity: An Essay on Exteriority, book written by Emmanuel Levinas, Springer, pp. 15-19, http://m.friendfeed-media.com/48926eed43741a4e07a8241b7ee87bd55b666514)

Hegel and his followers have also seen the accidental biases and eccentricities that make the
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as right, and history itself is not the final judge of history.
Demonization of the other is the root cause of genocide
Schrag, professor of philosophy, 6 – George Ade Distinguished Professor of Philosophy at Purdue University (Calvin O., December 2006, “Otherness and the problem of evil: How does that which is other become evil?” pp. 149-156 of Self and Other: Essays in Continental Philosophy of Religion (ed. Eugene Thomas Long), reprinted from The International Journal for Philosophy of Religion, Volume 60, Numbers 1-3, pp. 151-152, http://hk.plm.org.cn/e_book/xz-35527.pdf)

The mindset that occasions genocide is rooted in the belief that the “other group
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of an alien group are somehow irremediably evil and need to be extirpated.

The alternative – Encounter every Other as irreducible difference. That produces our subjectivity which is the basis for all ethics.
Ankor, Ph.D. in tourism, 9 – Ph.D. thesis for the Graduate School of the University of Technology in Sydney (Jo, BA in Cultural Tourism, December 2009, Pleasure and Dread: The Paradox of Travel, pp. 132-134, http://epress.lib.uts.edu.au/dspace/bitstream/handle/2100/1178/02Whole.pdf?sequence=2)

4.5 ?? LEVINAS’ PHILOSOPHY OF THE ENCOUNTER¶ ‘The other is not
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to a response that does not condemn the other through assumptions of recognition.

Tournament: Alta | Round: 6 | Opponent: West BP | Judge: Taylor Almond
China’s seeking more influence now – prefer predictive evidence.
Deutsche Welle, German News Agency 10/14 ~DW, "China’s influence in Latin America is increasing", 10/14/13, http://www.dw.de/chinas-influence-in-latin-america-is-increasing/a-17156409~~

Whether Li or Xi, Latinos get plenty of news about Chinese top politicians via
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They were hardly affected by the economy crisis in Europe, for example.
US engagement trades off with Chinese influence and causes regional competition.
Ellis 12 (R. Evan Ellis is an Assistant Professor of National Security Studies in the Center for Hemispheric Defense Studies at the National Defense University "The United States, Latin America and China: A "Triangular Relationship"?" http://theedmundsgroup.com/assetmanager/assets/US20China20Latin20America20-20A20Triangular20Relationship20.pdf)
At the political level, US engagement with Latin American countries has impacted the ability
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States blocked it from acquiring a comparable aircraft from the Czech Republic.30

Regional competition in Latin America kills US-China Relations
Zweig, 10 – Director of the Center on China’s Transnational Relations and a Chair Professor in the Division of Social Science (David, "China’s "Energy Rise", The U.S., And The New Geopolitics Of Energy", Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, April) *edited for clarity, marked with ~brackets~

America’s bilateral policy may be better coordinated. The Strategic Dialogues will give America a
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can the potentially negative implications of Sino-American triangularization be better managed.

US China relations are key to solve extinction – conflict, economic collapse, and multiple trans-national threats become inevitable without cooperation
Cohen 9 (William S. Cohen is chairman and CEO of The Cohen Group, a strategic business consulting firm based in Washington, D.C. Secretary Cohen served as U.S. secretary of defense, Maurice R. Greenberg is chairman and CEO of C.V. Starr 26 Co., Inc. Mr. Greenberg retired four years ago as chairman and CEO of American International Group (AIG) after more than 40 years of leadership, creating the largest insurance company in history, "Smart Power in U.S.-China Relations," http://csis.org/files/media/csis/pubs/090309_mcgiffert_uschinasmartpower_web.pdf) 

The evolution of Sino-U.S. relations over the next months,
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U.S.-China partnership, though not inevitable, is indispensable.

Tournament: ASU | Round: 5 | Opponent: La Costa Canyon GY | Judge: Thomas Liu
The crucial US-India relationship is deteriorating over a diplomatic row—engagement with India is key now.
Reuters 1/8 Reuters, “India tells U.S. to close embassy club; anger
exposes flaws in ties”, 1/8/14, http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/01/08/us-india-usa-diplomat-idUSBREA0709U2014010
India ordered the United States on¶
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and Sruthi Gottipati in¶ New Delhi; Editing by Raju Gopalakrishnan)

The plan weighs down the diplomatic agenda, meaning the Indian row continues to fester – engaging with Mexico/Cuba/Venezuela disrupts US-India relations.
ANDERSON AND GREWELL-Executive Director @ the Political Economy Research Center and Grewell, Research Associate @ PERC-1  ( Fall ’01 Terry and J. Bishop, 2 Chi. J. Int'l L. 427)

B. GREATER INTERNATIONAL ENVIRONMENTAL REGULATION CAN INCREASE INTERNATIONAL TENSION¶ Foreign policy is a
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our allies, securing vital resources, and ensuring access to foreign economies."
Relations key to Asian stability and the US economy.
Tellis, Senior Associate at the Carnegie Endowment, 11/16/2005 (Ashley, Testimony before the House Committee on International Relations, http://www.carnegieendowment.org/publications/index.cfm?fa=viewandid=17693andprog=zgpandproj=znpp,zsa,zusr)

If I am permitted to digress a bit, let me say parenthetically, that
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of the benefits that India’s rise brings to the region and the world.”

Conflicts in East Asia go nuclear
Jonathan S. Landay, National Security and Intelligence Correspondent, -2K “Top Administration Officials Warn Stakes for U.S. Are High in Asian Conflicts”, Knight Ridder/Tribune News Service, March 10, p. Lexis

Few if any experts think China and Taiwan, North Korea and South Korea,
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that totaled $600 billion last year, according to the Commerce Department.

Tournament: Golden Desert | Round: 4 | Opponent: Notre Dame KS | Judge: Adam Smiley
Movements against neoliberalism are growing and strong in Latin America and spill over globally---but the plans insistence on US led economic cooperation and integration reifies neoliberalism’s hegemonic grasp
Harris, CSU global studies professor, 2008
(Richard, “Latin America’s Response to Neoliberalism and Globalization”, http://www.nuso.org/upload/articulos/3506_2.pdf)

The economic, political and social development of the Latin American and Caribbean countries is
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model of uneven and inequitable development that has pillaged most of the region. 

Extinction --- Tech and Reforms Fail
Smith, 7 – Richard A. Research Associate at the Institute for Policy Research and Development, UK; PhD in History from UCLA, June 2007, “The Eco-suicidal Economics of Adam Smith,” Capitalism Nature Socialism, Vol. 18, No. 2, p. 22-43
In the midst of the record-breaking heat wave in the summer of 2003
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"endless technical adjustments;" thus no further theoretical thought is required."27

Tournament: Golden Desert | Round: 1 | Opponent: Bingham NW | Judge: Jon Voss

The intellectualization of the 1AC is no more than a projection of responsibility—-the idea that they’ve come to a debate tournament and demanded political action is laughable and demonstrative of their delusions

Dodds 12 Joseph, MPhil, Psychoanalytic Studies, Sheffield University, UK, MA, Psychoanalytic Studies, Sheffield University, UK BSc, Psychology and Neuroscience, Manchester University, UK, Chartered Psychologist (CPsychol) of the British Psychological Society (BPS), and a member of several other professional organizations such as the International Neuropsychoanalysis Society, Psychoanalysis and Ecology at the Edge of Chaos p 48
The split can also take the form of an intellectualization, separating abstract awareness of
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barrier to action can be partly artificially induced to protect us from feeling.
The affect refused in intellectualization can also be dealt with through displacement onto a different
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exasperating existing hatred of immigrants or conflicts such as the War on Terror.
Scapegoating mechanisms are always around but they tend to increase during times of anxiety and
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, one burial never seems enough). As Marshall (2005) writes:
Climate change is deeply threatening to anyone whose world view sees increasing personal consumption as
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friend shows you their holiday tan and you will see what I mean.
One relevant example here is the Czech President Vaclav Klaus who not only denies outright the existence of anthropogenic climate change, but even compares environmentalism with Nazism, Fascism and Stalinism (Dujisin 2007). Others evoke the phrase ’ecofascist’ to describe anyone with a vaguely green agenda. All these responses need to be explored by psychoanalytically informed social theorists and environmental researchers.
In terms of displacement, it is interesting also to consider Marshall’s (2005)
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feng shui, they stocked not a single volume on home energy efficiency.
In the face of a problem which 80 of people say is a major
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daunting and terrifying environmental problems ... with manageable and entertaining pseudo-environmentalism.

Every Symbolic order necessitates some forms of safe transgression, where the 1AC is no more than the fantasy that we’ve created  to convince ourselves that we’re doing something good—-a symbiotic relationship is created, with the 1AC’s criticism and the ideological order mutually reinforcing each other

Stavrakakis 12 Yannis Stavrakakis, Associate Professor at the School of Political Sciences, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, "SYMPOSIUM: FANTASY AND MARKETS: Beyond the Spirits of Capitalism? Prohibition, Enjoyment, and Social Change" Cardozo Law Review August, 2012 Cardozo Law Review 33 Cardozo L. Rev. 2289  
If, today, the battle between austerity and spending, the return of ascetic
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, conceals an extimate relation of mutual engagement producing a single bipolar system?
My main hypothesis is that, apart from the simple case of straightforward synergy between
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camouflages, disavows, a synergy reproducing the hegemonic structure/order. n26
In fact, even a degree of transgression is often implicitly encouraged by a dominant
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charting an alternative course beyond the short-circuit present in such cases.

Ideological transgression is a continuation of the existing order—the power of the protest structurally depends upon the continued authority of the system.  The affirmative functions as a carnivalesque reversal of authority—we make a gesture of non-compliance that posits us as the "real" masters of fate

Zizek 95 Slavoj,  International Director of the Birkbeck Institute for the Humanities, president of the Society for Theoretical Psychoanalysis, LAW AND THE POSTMODERN MIND: SUPEREGO BY DEFAULT, Cardozo Law Review, 1995, 16 Cardozo L. Rev. 925
In the traditional patriarchal society, the inherent transgression of the law assumes the form
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the cynic the clearest example of one obsessed precisely with the national thing?   

The alternative is to psychoanalyze the 1AC—-the fantasy will reveal itself as long as we continue asking questions to expose their concealment of the lack—-in other words, it’s your job to confuse and frustrate them via a refusal to partake in their politics—-this also crushes the permutation

Dean 6 Jodi, Prof of Political Science at Hobart and William Smith Colleges, 2006, Zizek’s Politics.  Xviii-xx
Žižek emphasizes that Lacan conceptualized this excessive place, this place without guarantees, in
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we can organize, consider, and formalize our experiences as ideological subjects.

Tournament: Alta | Round: 6 | Opponent: West BP | Judge: Taylor Almond
Security is a psychological construct—the aff’s scenarios for conflict are products of paranoia that project our violent impulses onto the other
Mack, prof psychiatry, 91 – Doctor of Psychiatry and a professor at Harvard University (John, “The Enemy System” http://www.johnemackinstitute.org/eJournal/article.asp?id=23 *Gender modified)

The threat of nuclear annihilation has stimulated us to try to understand what it is
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, taking their cues from the leadership, contribute powerfully to the process.

Their paranoid projections guarantee extinction—it’s try or die
Hollander, prof history, 3 – professor of Latin American history and women's studies at California State University (Nancy, "A Psychoanalytic Perspective on the Politics of Terror:In the Aftermath of 9/11" www.estadosgerais.org/mundial_rj/download/FLeitor_NHollander_ingl.pdf)

In this sense, then, 9-11 has symbolically constituted a relief in
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believes that such denial only increases reliance on projective mechanisms and stimulates paranoia. 

Vote negative to interrogate cycles of enemy creation—this can create a fissure in dominant narratives that make war inevitable
Byles, 3—English, U Cyprus (Joanna, Psychoanalysis and War: The Superego and Projective Identification, http://www.clas.ufl.edu/ipsa/journal/articles/art_byles01.shtml, )

It is here of course that language plays an important role in imagining the other
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a state of mind and, most importantly, a way of thinking.

Tournament: ASU | Round: 2 | Opponent: Chandler PC | Judge:
Our vastly different perspective means we cannot understand the struggle of the oppressed, and thus cannot accurately represent them – the 1AC creates barriers between the privileged debater and those who are struggling, ultimately reinforcing oppression by silencing the other. 

Alcoff ’95 - Linda Martín Alcoff is Professor of Philosophy at Hunter College and the CUNY Graduate Center Personal Website, “THE PROBLEM OF SPEAKING FOR OTHERS”, 1995, http://www.alcoff.com/content/speaothers.html ADoan

¶ Feminist discourse is not the only site in which the problem of speaking for
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oppressed is becoming increasingly criticized by members of those oppressed groups themselves.6
The alternative is to reject the 1AC and to listen – thus opening up spaces for others to speak.
Alcoff ’95 - Linda Martín Alcoff is Professor of Philosophy at Hunter College and the CUNY Graduate Center Personal Website, “THE PROBLEM OF SPEAKING FOR OTHERS”, 1995, http://www.alcoff.com/content/speaothers.html ADoan

The final response to the problem of speaking for others that I will consider occurs
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. The remainder of this paper will try to contribute toward developing that possibility

Tournament: Alta | Round: 6 | Opponent: West BP | Judge: Taylor Almond
A. Definition -- Economic engagement must be tangible- excludes lifting the embargo
Haass, 2000 – Brookings Foreign Policy Studies director
Richard, and Meghan O'Sullivan, "Introduction" in Honey and Vinegar, ed. by Haass and O'Sullivan, google books

Architects of engagement strategies have a wide variety of incentives from which to choose. Economic engagement might offer tangible incentives such as export credits, investment insurance or promotion, access to technology, loans, and economic aid." Other equally useful economic incentives involve the removal of penalties, whether they be trade embargoes, investment bans, or high tariffs that have impeded economic relations between the United States and the target country. In addition, facilitated entry into the global economic arena and the institutions that govem it rank among the most potent incentives in today's global market."

B. Violation – the aff is merely an incentive, not engagement

C. Voting Issue fairness and education – this explodes the topic because they don’t have to increase EE, just remove restrictions – this is infinitely regressive and jacks neg ground.

Tournament: Golden Desert | Round: 4 | Opponent: Notre Dame KS | Judge: Adam Smiley
Unemployment Benefits are going to pass—Democrats have made necessary spending concessions and Republican stalling causes public backlash.
Business Insider 1/30 Business insider, “The Senate Is Nearing A Deal On Unemployment Insurance And It Shows The Absurdity Of The Republican Position”, 1/30/14, http://www.businessinsider.com/the-senate-is-nearing-a-deal-on-unemployment-insurance-and-it-shows-the-absurdity-of-the-republican-position-2014-1

When Senate Republicans filibustered the extension of emergency unemployment benefits on January 14, there
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profits in the short-term, boosting tax revenue for the government.¶ 

Plan drains PC
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Obama’s political capital is key—he’s pushing for benefits to be extended now.
Washington Post 1/31 WaPo Politics, “Unemployment benefits dominate the agenda”, 1/31/14, http://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/unemployment-benefits-dominate-the-agenda/2014/01/31/3a63a70a-8659-11e3-b85b-b305db87fb90_story.html

The issue has dominated the political agenda in recent weeks, and President Obama called
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term unemployed workers who had been receiving payments for more than 26 weeks.
Status quo unemployment makes benefits uniquely key now—failure to extend benefits disrupts US economic recovery.  
Center for American Progress 1/10 Sarah Ayres is a Policy Analyst in the Economic Policy department at the Center for American Progress, “5 Reasons Congress Must Extend Unemployment Insurance”, 1/10/14, http://www.americanprogress.org/issues/economy/news/2014/01/10/81927/5-reasons-congress-must-extend-unemployment-insurance/
Congress allowed emergency unemployment insurance to expire on December 28, 2013, leaving 1
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economy by immediately extending federal unemployment insurance for the long-term unemployed.

Strong statistical and historical correlation between economic decline and war—all credible scholarship is on our side
Royal, DoD director, 10 (Jedediah, Director of Cooperative Threat Reduction – U.S. Department of Defense, “Economic Integration, Economic Signaling and the Problem of Economic Crises”, Economics of War and Peace: Economic, Legal and Political Perspectives, Ed. Goldsmith and Brauer, p. 213-215)

Less intuitive is how periods of economic decline may increase the likelihood of external conflict
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not featured prominently in the economic-security debate and deserves more attention.

Tournament: ASU | Round: 5 | Opponent: La Costa Canyon GY | Judge: Thomas Liu
Unemployment insurance has momentum now—Republicans are coming to the table but the negotiations are fragile.
NPR 1/7 NPR, “Senate Unexpectedly Moves Forward On Unemployment Benefits”, 1/7/14, http://www.npr.org/blogs/itsallpolitics/2014/01/07/260560847/senate-unexpectedly-moves-forward-on-unemployment-benefits
The Senate surprised quite a few people in Washington today when it voted to proceed
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be less willing to move it along without securing spending cuts in exchange.
Plan drains PC
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Obama’s political capital is key—he’s pushing for benefits to be extended now.
Washington Post 1/31 WaPo Politics, “Unemployment benefits dominate the agenda”, 1/31/14, http://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/unemployment-benefits-dominate-the-agenda/2014/01/31/3a63a70a-8659-11e3-b85b-b305db87fb90_story.html

The issue has dominated the political agenda in recent weeks, and President Obama called
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term unemployed workers who had been receiving payments for more than 26 weeks.
Status quo unemployment makes benefits uniquely key now—failure to extend benefits disrupts US economic recovery.  
Center for American Progress 1/10 Sarah Ayres is a Policy Analyst in the Economic Policy department at the Center for American Progress, “5 Reasons Congress Must Extend Unemployment Insurance”, 1/10/14, http://www.americanprogress.org/issues/economy/news/2014/01/10/81927/5-reasons-congress-must-extend-unemployment-insurance/
Congress allowed emergency unemployment insurance to expire on December 28, 2013, leaving 1
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economy by immediately extending federal unemployment insurance for the long-term unemployed.

Strong statistical and historical correlation between economic decline and war—all credible scholarship is on our side
Royal, DoD director, 10 (Jedediah, Director of Cooperative Threat Reduction – U.S. Department of Defense, “Economic Integration, Economic Signaling and the Problem of Economic Crises”, Economics of War and Peace: Economic, Legal and Political Perspectives, Ed. Goldsmith and Brauer, p. 213-215)

Less intuitive is how periods of economic decline may increase the likelihood of external conflict
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not featured prominently in the economic-security debate and deserves more attention.

Tournament: ASU | Round: Doubles | Opponent: Lowell VC | Judge:
Technological fixes subordinate nature to anthropocentric engineering and sanitize consumptive practices—this doctrine results in more ecological destruction, and ignoring nature’s complexity ensure serial policy failure and extinction—vote negative to critically evaluate the affirmative from a standpoint of sustainability
Gary Backhaus, prof philosophy, 9, Phil @ Loyola Maryland, "Automobility: Global Warming as Symptomatology" April 2009, com/2071-1050/1/2/187, KENTUCKY

The book, An Inconvenient Truth: The Planetary Emergency of Global Warming and What
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without dealing with the egregious obstacle of an auto-mobile material culture.