Tournament: Wichita East | Round: 4 | Opponent: Tulsa Union | Judge: Brown, Zach
Specific Link:
The language of human rights attempts to counter dehumanization with rehumanization, but fail to provide a cohesive challenge to systems of oppression. We should, instead, challenge the distinction between the human/non-human boundary, producing politics which take into account both the needs of vulnerable human populations and the non-human world.
Deckha in ‘2k10  Maneesha Associate Professor at the University of Victoria Faculty of Law in Victoria, Canada. 

FOCUSING ON HUMAN SOCIETY WON’T SOLVE THE ROOT CAUSES OF OPPRESSION
Fox ‘94 Warwick Fox, Philosophy Professor, University of Central Lancaster, From: DEEP ECOLOGY FOR THE 21ST CENTURY, 

The Alternative is to Reject the Affirmative and Embrace a Deep Ecological Ethical Framework – it’s a Prerequisite to Policymaking
Katz and Oechsli 93 (Eric, Vice President of the International Society for Environmental Ethics, and Lauren, Biology at Columbia, Environmental Ethics, vol 15 no 1, 1993

Tournament: Wichita East | Round: 2 | Opponent: Olathe Northwest MS | Judge: Nelson, B
US-Brazil relations are improving now – trade ties and infrastructure investments
Department of Commerce 3/25/2013 (Department of Commerce government website, “Building on the Strength of U.S.-Brazil Economic Relationship,”

Brazil hates the plan – they perceive it as a neo-colonialist project
Global Research 12/31/2010 - independent research and media organization (Boris Volkhonsky “Latin America: no longer the USA’s backyard,” 

US - Brazil relations solves prolif, warming, and Latin American instability
Hakim 7/1/2010 - president emeritus and senior fellow of the Inter-American Dialogue (Peter, “Rising Brazil: The Choices of a New Global Power,” 

Warming is real, anthropogenic, and causes extinction.
Deibel 7 – Terry L. Deibel, Professor of National Strategy at the National War College, 2007, Foreign Affairs Strategy: Logic for American Statecraft, p. 387-389

Tournament: Waru | Round: 2 | Opponent: SME TR | Judge: Rafferty, Shaw
China influence in Latin America is gaining massive momentum but can still be disrupted
Sarmiento-Saher 13 Sebastian, “China and Latin America: Big Business and Big Competition” 

US engagement with Latin America cuts of Chinese access
Pham 10 Peter, “China's Strategic Penetration of Latin America: What It Means for U.S. Interests.” American Foreign Policy Interests, Vol. 32 Issue 6, 

Engagement is key to CCP Stability
Thorn 12 (Thorn is the International relations officer at Cowley University in Alabama) (http://Americanfreepress.net)

Instability will escalate to nuclear war
Gary Feueberg 5, Epoch Times Washington DC Staff, "Leading Chinese Dissident Warns: China Planning Nuclear War"

Tournament: Waru | Round: 2 | Opponent: SME TR | Judge: Rafferty, Shaw
Economic enframing reduces the world to self-interest and monetary value, enabling structural violence, environmental destruction, and collapse of value to life
Nhanenge 7Jytte Masters @ U South Africa, paper submitted in part fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of master of arts in the subject Development Studies, 

Reduction of our being to standing reserve destroys our value to life and makes entire populations disposable which is the root cause of endless wars and genocides
Kouros, 97 Yale Law Graduate, George, Become What You Are, p. 26

And, the alternative is to reject the affirmative’s calculative thinking on being in favor of meditative dwelling – the aff’s strategic interventionism fails to challenge the ontology of domination
Swazo 02Norman k., “Worth Order and Crisis Theory: Heideggerian Reflections, 72-4

Tournament: Waru | Round: 3 | Opponent: Shawnee Heights CL | Judge: Dobson, Dennis
Referendum Solves the aff- when the public is given real choices they are willing to change their mind on even the toughest issues
Klein 10 (Joe, Writer for the Time Magazine, "How Democracy can solve tough problems)

Tournament: Wichita East | Round: 2 | Opponent: Olathe Northwest MS | Judge: Nelson, B
Russia Should...

Mexican-Russian relations good now- will increase
Quarterly 13 (May 17, http://www.americasquarterly.org/new-push-stronger-russia-mexico-ties)

Tournament: KCKCC | Round: 5 | Opponent: Olathe Northwest | Judge: Williams, Seth
Interpretation – economic engagement must be one of the following economic contacts
Resnick 1 (Evan, Assistant Professor and coordinator of the United States Programme at RSIS, “Defining Engagement,” Journal of International Affairs, 0022197X, Spring2001, Vol. 54, Issue 2, 

Violation – ceding land is not engagement – it’s appeasement
Resnick ‘1 Spring/2001, Evan Resnick is Assistant Professor and coordinator of the United States Programme at RSIS.

Tournament: Waru | Round: 5 | Opponent: Tonganoxie FH | Judge: Katz, Dan
A. Interpretation – Economic Engagement must be long term
Pollins 3 (Brian M., Associate Professor of Political Science at Ohio State University and a Research Fellow at the Mershon Center

Extra T argument formed as well

Tournament: Waru | Round: 2 | Opponent: SME TR | Judge: Rafferty, Shaw
Environment treaties are NOT economic engagement
Rose 8 (Andrew K, professor @ Haas School of Business Administration @ University of California, Berkeley, Mark M. Spiegel, researcher @ Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco, “Non-Economic Engagement and International Exchange: The Case of Environmental Treaties,” NBER Working Paper No. 13988, May 2008,