Tournament: Valley | Round: 2 | Opponent: Como Park | Judge:
Politics is always already emotional – Emotion and affect are inevitable in politics – attempts of modernity to organize and rationalize Cuban politics fail to realize the fundamental epistemological antagonisms and contradictions in Cuban society
Fernandez 2k (“Cuba and the Politics of Passion” by  Damián J. Fernández, Published in 2000 by the University of Texas Press  Ph.D. in International Relations, University of Miami., M.A . in Latin American Studies (Political Science), University of Florida, B.A. in International Relations and Latin American Studi es, Princeton University, Head of School , Ethical Culture Fieldston School, -BRW)
Cuban political culture is a mix of divergent paradigms,
…the emotional and the political can never be divorced. 

Current U.S. policy towards cuba is a search for a solution, a solution that always disappoints due to a binary politics of socialist paradise vs. capitalist integration – this creates the drive to rationalize and order the messiness that is inherent in politics through the consignment of affect
MCNEIL, 2010
(CALUM, PHD CANDIDATE IN INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS @ MCMASTER UNIVERSITY, CANADIAN FOREIGN POLICY JOURNAL, VOL. 16, NO. 1, “TO ENGAGE OR NOT TO ENGAGE: AN (A)FFECTIVE ARGUMENT IN FAVOUR OF A POLICY OF ENGAGEMENT WITH CUBA”)

The purpose here is not simply to illustrate positive or negative functionality, however, but to stress the degree to which emotional commitments are implicated in American and Canadian foreign policy toward Cuba—and …
without allowing the state to intervene and distort the process of somatic marking. In addition, given the massive asymmetry in material power, there is little risk involved to the United States to employ such a policy—however unlikely it is that it will do so. 

The reduction of Cuban engagement policy to tug-of-war with communism creates a virulent form oppositional politics that perpetuates otherness through the denial of emotion in the political
FERNÁNDEZ, 2000
(DAMIÁN J., HEAD OF THE ETHICAL CULTURE FIELDSTON SCHOOL AND PHD IN INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS @ UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI, CUBA AND THE POLITICS OF PASSION, UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS PRESS, PG. VI-XV)

This book does not begin with this sentence. It started years ago, in 1979, when as a senior at Princeton I walked the streets of Havana during a weeklong visit. It was the first time I had been in Cuba since my family and I left in 1963. The experience was emotional and revealing; revealing perhaps because it was emotional. The Cuba I felt did not match the Cuba I had studied in class and read about in books. Something was missing in the political science texts on the topic. This book, two decades later, is an attempt to explain to myself and others what that was. After years of study and several other visits to the island, I identified what was missing as lo informal (the informal). The literature on Cuba presented a political system and a social system detached from each other and far
…constructive and destructive emotions. 

Oppositional politics and ordering of identity makes subjective and objective violence a necessary inevitability
EVANS and GUILLAUME, 2010
(BRAD, LECTURER IN THE SCHOOL OF POLITICS AND INTERNATIONAL STUDIES AT THE UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS, AND LAURA, PHD IN INTERNATIONAL POLITICS @ ABERYSTWYTH UNIVERSITY, THEORY and EVENT, VOL. 13, NO. 3, “DELEUZE AND WAR: INTRODUCTION”)

Gilles Deleuze’s work displays an intimate relationship with the problem of war. Beginning for instance with his highly original co-authored Treatise on Nomadology , he borrowed from an array of sources including anthropology, military strategy, the human sciences, literature, aesthetics, and history, not only to illustrate how the ‘State itself’ …
which the war machine collapse. 

And, Affective networks are an inevitable part of existence, these networks organize and interpret reality – it is not possible to simply wish away emotion in politics
FERNÁNDEZ, 2000
(DAMIÁN J., HEAD OF THE ETHICAL CULTURE FIELDSTON SCHOOL AND PHD IN INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS @ UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI, CUBA AND THE POLITICS OF PASSION, UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS PRESS, PG. VI-XV)
Affection and passion, their norms and their
…as the Cuban case shows. 

Thus the plan: The united states federal government should substantially increase affective economic engagement with Cuba

Embracement of affective economic engagement dismantles the regime of order that surrounds the U.S. –Cuba economic relationship
MCNEIL, 2010
(CALUM, PHD CANDIDATE IN INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS @ MCMASTER UNIVERSITY, CANADIAN FOREIGN POLICY JOURNAL, VOL. 16, NO. 1, “TO ENGAGE OR NOT TO ENGAGE: AN (A)FFECTIVE ARGUMENT IN FAVOUR OF A POLICY OF ENGAGEMENT WITH CUBA”)
Given the above analysis, we can assert that a policy of engagement is
…rational pull of nationalism.18 It ultimately points to the need for scholars interested in the analysis of foreign policy to be more sensitive to the roles that culture and emotion play in the dynamics that we believe we are observing.

Tournament: Wake Forest | Round: 1 | Opponent: idk | Judge:
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The United States Federal Government should repeal Section 211 of the Omnibus Appropriations Act of 1998.

Adv. 1 WTO

U.S. failure to comply with the WTO ruling on Havana Club undermines the credibility of the dispute settlement body.
New, 3/26/2013 (William – Intellectual Property Watch, United States Chided As TRIPS Scofflaw at WTO, Intellectual Property Watch, p. http://www.ip-watch.org/2013/03/26/united-states-chided-as-trips-scofflaw-at-wto/)

“The conduct of the United States unscrupulously discredits the WTO dispute settlement system …
Venezuela said in its statement (unofficial translation).

Maintaining a credible dispute settlement system is critical to avoiding unilateral retaliation to trade obstructions that collapse multilateral trade
Lawrence, March 2007 (Robert – Albert L. Williams Professor of International Trade and Investment at the Harvard Kennedy School of Government, The United States and the WTO Dispute Settlement System, p. 5-6)
But this “safety valve” argument is shortsighted…
 …WTO and its dispute settlement system remains fragile. 

Multilateral trade is benevolent – it de-escalates conflict and is an impact filter
Panitchpakdi, 2/26/2004 (Supachai – secretary-general of the UN Conference on Trade and Development, American Leadership and the World Trade Organization, p. http://www.wto.org/english/news_e/spsp_e/spsp22_e.htm)

The second point is that strengthening the
/ sovereignty is constrained, not by multilateral rules, but by the absence of rules. 

The impact is also reverse causal – dissolution of the WTO causes nuclear war
Copley News Service, 12/1/1999 (Commentary, p. Lexis-Nexis)

For decades, many children in America and other countries went to bed fearing annihilation by nuclear war….
They should be celebrating it.

Multiple studies prove that the risk of war is less probable in a world of multilateral trade
Griswold, 4/20/2007 (Daniel – director of the Center for Trade Policy Studies, Trade, Democracy and Peace, p. http://www.freetrade.org/node/681)

A little-noticed headline on an
…make war less attractive.

Adv 2 IP leadership
Other countries are criticizing the U.S.’s failure to resolve the Havana Club case.
Agence France Presse, 6/25/2013 (EU, Cuba spar with US over ‘Havana Club’ rum, p. Lexis-Nexis)

The European Union and Cuba locked horns with the United
…echoed by members, including China.

Section 211 erodes IPR credibility by encouraging other nations to violate norms.
Esper, 3/3/2010 (Mark – Executive Vice President of the Global Intellectual Property Center, Domestic and International Implications of Havana Club and Section 211, of the Omnibus Appropriations Act of 1999, Testimony to the House Committee on the Judiciary, p. http://judiciary.house.gov/hearings/pdf/Esper100303.pdf)

Unfortunately, Section 211 of the FY 1999 Omnibus /
…our status as an international champion of intellectual property protection.

The Havana Rum case spills over --- it undermines the United States’ ability to uphold IP law globally.
Esper, 3/3/2010 (Hearing of the House Judiciary Committee, Domestic and International Trademark Implications of Havana Club and Section 211 of the Omnibus Appropriations Act of 1999, Chaired by Representative John Conyers (D-MI), Witnesses: Mark Orr – Vice President of North American Affairs at Pernod Ricard USA, Bruce Lehman – former assistant secretary of commerce and expert counsel for Bicardi USA, Mark Esper – executive vice president of the Global Intellectual Property Center at the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, William Reinsch – president of the National Foreign Trade Council, John Veroneau – partner at Covington and Burling LLP, Federal News Service, p. Lexis-Nexis)

MR. ESPER: Well, I think we need to take a look at the big
…to credibly make those arguments in multilateral form.

Repealing Section 211 restores U.S. IP credibility by setting a precedent against trademark abuse.
Pava 2011 (Mindy – Executive Symposium Editor for the Emory International Law Review, J.D. Candidate at Emory University School of Law, The Cuban Conundrum: Proposing an International Trademark Registry for Well-Known Foreign Marks, Emory International Law Review, p. Lexis-Nexis)

With an outright repeal of Section 211, …
devastating for U.S. businesses because of the substantial profit earned abroad from intellectual property exports.

Subpoint A – Biotech
U.S. credibility is critical to strong IP protections for agriculture.
Stein, Spring 2005 (Haley – J.D. Northwestern University School of Law, Intellectual Property and Genetically Modified Seeds: The United States, Trade, and the Developing World, Northwestern Journal of Technology and Intellectual Property, p. Lexis-Nexis)

IP rights are likewise …
bolstering these IP rights on the international front.

IPR harmonization is a pre-requisite for the development of innovative and widespread biotech.
Kerle 2007 (Clemens – research fellow at the Institute for Public International Law and International Relations at the Johannes Kepler University of Linz, International IP Protection for GMO – a Biotech Odyssey, Columbia Science and Technology Law Review, p. Lexis-Nexis)

3.1.2. The persuasiveness
…their northern partners.

Biotech prevents food security
Pinstrup-Anderson, 3/2/2006 (Per – professor at Cornell University, The Impact of Technological Change in Agriculture on Poverty and Armed Conflict, Charles Valentine Riley Memorial Lecture Series, p. http://intlag.tamu.edu/images/riley06.pdf)

According to Borlaug (2004), “…
hypothesis is shown in Figure 1. 

Food insecurity causes nuclear conflict between failed states
Brown 2k9 (Lester Brown, founder of the Worldwatch Institute and the Earth Policy Institute, 2009, Can Food Shortages Bring Down Civilization?” Scientific American)
The biggest threat to global
/stability of global civilization itself.

Biotech innovations solve multiple internal links to extinction
Trewavas ‘2k
(Anthony, Institute of Cell and Molecular Biology – University of Edinburgh, “GM Is the Best Option We Have”, AgBioWorld, 6-5, http://www.agbioworld.org/biotech-info/articles/biotech-art/best_option.html)
There are some Western ..
.of it is "be prepared". 

Subpoint B – Disease

Infectious diseases are inevitable. Rapid evolution and adaptation risk extinction.
Walsh, 7/10/2013 (Bryan, From AIDS to SARS to MERS, Emerging Infectious Diseases Remain a Dire Threat, Time, p. http://science.time.com/2013/07/10/from-aids-to-sars-to-mers-emerging-infectious-diseases-remain-a-dire-threat/)
Now the world is facing another
…Morens and Fauci know, we won’t be lucky forever.

A strong IPR regime solves disease-- IPR incentivizes research and development. Copycat drugs don’t fill-in.
Kaufmann, 4/23/2008 (Judith – retired foreign service officer and former director of the U.S. State Department’s Office of International Health Affairs, Intellectual Property Rights and the Pharmaceutical Industry, Focus on Intellectual Property Rights, p. http://iipdigital.usembassy.gov/st/english/publication/2008/04/20080429230451myleen0.4181027.html#axzz2ZG5uBh4Z)

Drugs that cure AIDS and many other diseases
/and find new cures.

Disease spread will cause extinction
Leather, 11 10/12/11 (Tony, “The Inevitable Pandemic” http://healthmad.com/conditions-and-diseases/the-inevitable-pandemic/, PZ)
You will have …
…doubtful at best.