Tournament: New Trier | Round: 1 | Opponent: Iowa City West ST | Judge: Linda Collier

1NC Environment Conditions CP

CP Text: The United States federal government should ~substantially normalize economic relations towards Cuba~ if and only if Cuba agrees to tourism restrictions, human rights reform, and joint marine environmental projects with the United States.

CP solves—embargo removal absent environmental cooperation causes ecological and economic devastation—turns case

Conell 09 -Research Associate at the Council on Hemispheric Affairs (Christina, "The U.S. and Cuba: Destined to be an Environmental Duo?", 6/12/2009, http://www.coha.org/the-us-and-cuba-an-environmental-duo/-http://www.coha.org/the-us-and-cuba-an-environmental-duo//VS)
Many Cuba well-wishers fear if President Obama lifts the trade embargo, the
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based on mutual respect and the autonomy of each country’s sovereignty and traditions.

Only the CP solves—the plan strengthens the elite’s grip on power

LA Times 07 (Los Angeles Times, 26 Oct 2007, "Carrots for Cuba; We’ve lifted trade and travel embargoes on China and Vietnam. Why should Havana be different?, proquest) KY
In the wake of 9/11, Washington’s thinking about Cuba — when it
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Cuba "would merely enrich the elites in power and strengthen their grip."

Unconditional lifting of the embargo strengthens the regime, causes terrorism, and turns Latin America influence

Suchlicki ’13 (Jaime, Emilio Bacardi Moreau Distinguished Professor and Director, Institute for Cuban and Cuban-American Studies, University of Miami, What If…the U.S. Ended the Cuba Travel Ban and the Embargo? 2/26/13, http://interamericansecuritywatch.com/what-if-the-u-s-ended-the-cuba-travel-ban-and-the-embargo/-http://interamericansecuritywatch.com/what-if-the-u-s-ended-the-cuba-travel-ban-and-the-embargo/) KY
Lifting the travel ban without major concessions from Cuba would send the wrong message "
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, and investments in Cuba would develop. Yet there are significant implications.

Latin American terrorism causes extinction

Anderson 08 (10/8/2008, Curt, AP, "US officials fear terrorist links with drug lords," http://usatoday30.usatoday.com/news/nation/2008-10-08-805146709_x.htm-http://usatoday30.usatoday.com/news/nation/2008-10-08-805146709_x.htm)
MIAMI — There is real danger that Islamic extremist groups such as al-Qaida
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not in our interest to let that potpourri of scum to come together."

1NC K

Lifting the embargo would force liberalization upon Cuba, destroy its domestic industries, and integrate it into the global neoliberal order.

GONZALEZ, law prof, 2003 (Carmen, Assistant Professor, Seattle University School of Law, Tulane Environmental Law Journal, Vol. 16, p. 685, 2003, "Seasons of Resistance: Sustainable Agriculture and Food Security in Cuba", http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=987944-http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=987944, ZBurdette)

Notwithstanding these problems, the greatest challenge to the agricultural development strategy adopted by the
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embargo that Cuba was able to embark upon a radically different development path.
Cuba was able to transform its agricultural development model as a consequence of the political
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end of Cuba’s economic isolation may only be a matter of time.415
It is unclear how the Cuban government will respond to the immense political and economic
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S. rice imports in the first half of the twentieth century.418
Cuba is once again at a crossroads—as it was in 1963, when
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crisis or as a path-breaking achievement worthy of pride and emulation.
The history of Cuban agriculture has been one of resistance and accommodation to larger economic
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and economic pressure from the United States and from the global trading system.

The impact is extinction – neoliberalism reduces existence itself to property to be exchanged, producing a drive to a single way of knowing and being – that causes massive structural violence and environmental destruction

LANDER ’2,
(Edgardo, Prof. of Sociology and Latin American studies at the Venezuelan Central University in Caracas, "Eurocentrism, Modern Knowledges, and the "Natural" Order of Global Capital, Nepantla: Views from South", 3.2, muse)

Just as resources formerly considered to be commons, or of communal use, were
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intensified, totalitarian monoculture of Eurocentric knowledge only lead to destruction and death.

The alternative is an affirmation of the Cuban model of development. Cuba is a key symbol of resistance to the US neoliberal model – rather than assimilating Cuba, we should use its experience and history to re-imagine US economic relations and shatter neoliberalism’s stranglehold on our political imagination

VATTIMO 26 ZABALA 11
(Gianni, Prof. of Theoretical Philosophy @ U of Turin, Santiago, Prof. of Philosophy @ U of Barcelona, Hermeneutic Communism, pgs. 132-135)

The reasons for concluding this book by directing our attention to the recent South American
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is possible to construct true alternatives upon the ruins of Western industrial capitalism.

1NC Environment DA

Isolation from tourism and economic development has kept Cuba’s marine environment unharmed

Waitt 11 -(The Waitt Foundation, "Cuba’s Unique Marine Resources", 2011, http://waittfoundation.org/cubas-unique-marine-resources)//SC**
In 1996, the Cuban government set aside Jardines de la Reina as an 850
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United States and Mexico as well as the rest of the insular Caribbean. 

Lifting the embargo would destroy Cuba’s biodiversity
Dean, 7 - Science Editor for the NYT (Cornelia, "Conserving Cuba, After the Embargo", New York Times, 12/25/07, http://www.nytimes.com/2007/12/25/science/25cuba.html?pagewanted=all)//TL  
Through accidents of geography and history, Cuba is a priceless ecological resource. That
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massive growth in mass tourism when the U.S. embargo lifts."

Cuba is a keystone environment – the center of all biodiversity in the Caribbean

EDF 00 (Environmental Defense Fund, "Cuba, "Crown Jewel Of Caribbean Biodiversity," Threatened," November 30, 2000, http://www.edf.org/news/cuba-crown-jewel-caribbean-biodiversity-threatened)
Our work in Cuba: A new era for ocean conservation
Cuba has one of the Caribbean’s most diverse marine environments, with massive reefs that
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for years to come," said Environmental Defense scientist Dr. Doug Rader.

That causes extinction

Diner, Major 26 Instructor, Judge Advocate General School 94 ~David, Military Law Review, Winter~
By causing widespread extinctions, humans have artificially simplified many ecosystems. As biologic simplicity
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from an aircraft’s wings, mankind may be edging closer to the abyss.

1NC Appeasement DA

The plan is surrender – it emboldens global regimes and collapses US influence

Brooks ’9
Senior fellow for National Security Affairs in the Davis Institute at The Heritage Foundation. (Peter – Heritage foundation "Keep the Embargo, O" April 16, 2009 http://www.heritage.org/research/commentary/2009/04/keep-the-embargo-o)//EB
In another outreach to roguish regimes, the Obama administration on Monday announced the easing
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communist regime, we should hold firm onto the leverage the embargo provides.

Removing the embargo unconditionally sends a signal of weakness and hypocrisy – we should only lift the embargo after Cuba has met our demands

Perales 10
is executive director of the Association of American Chambers of Commerce in Latin America (AACCLA) and a lecturer at the Elliott School of International Affairs at The George Washington University. The expressions and opinions contained in the text are the author’s alone and do not represent the official position of AACCLA or the U.S. Chamber of Commerce. (José Raúl - WOODROW WILSON CENTER LATIN AMERICAN PROGRAM "The United States and Cuba: Implications of an Economic Relationship" August 2010 http://www.wilsoncenter.org/sites/default/files/LAP_Cuba_Implications.pdf-http://www.wilsoncenter.org/sites/default/files/LAP_Cuba_Implications.pdf)//EB
The U.S. embargo may need to be changed; however Sánchez vehemently
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labor rights. What sort of message would that send to the world?

The signal of appeasement ignites a host of conflicts and collapses hegemony

Cohen 3-19
~Eliot. Director of Strategic Studies at Johns Hopkins. "Eliot Cohen: American Withdrawal and Global Disorder" The Wall Street Journal, 3/19/13 lnGBS-JV~
In Mr. Obama’s second term the limits of such withdrawal from conventional military commitments
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must, and those with an option hurry up and get nuclear weapons. 

South China Sea conflict goes nuclear

Wesley ’12
~Michael Wesley, Non-Resident Senior Fellow at the Brookings Institution and an Adjunct Professor at Griffith University and The University of Sydney, former Executive Director of the Lowy Institute for International Policy, former Professor of International Relations and Director of the Griffith Asia Institute at Griffith University, and Senior Lecturer in International Relations at the University of New South Wales, July 2012, "What’s at stake in the South China Sea?" http://lowyinstitute.cachefly.net/files/wesley_whats_at_stake_snapshot11.pdf~~
The South China Sea is enclosed by the west coast of mainland Southeast Asia,
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the South China Sea will become ever more crowded with shipping and commerce. 

Russian aggression causes extinction

Corcoran ’9
~PhD, Senior Fellow @ Global Security, Frmr. Strategic Analyst at the US Army War College where he chaired studies for the Office of the Deputy Chief of Operations and member of the National Advisory Board for the Alsos Digital Library for Nuclear Issues, we win the qualification game, 4/21, http://sitrep.globalsecurity.org/articles/090421301-strategic-nuclear-targets.htm~~
That brings us to Russia, our former main adversary, now a competitive partner
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greatly complicate any efforts to stop escalation short of a total nuclear exchange.

1NC Transition Frontline–Defense

No Cuban collapse–new industries, institutional safeguards and new partnerships check back their failed state scenario
Cuba News, 13 ¬– the world’s leading source of business information on Cuba ("Analysis: Cuba is much stronger today than after USSR’s collapse in the 1990s," 5/20/2013, http://www.cubanews.com/sections/analysis-cuba-is-much-stronger-today-than-after-ussrs-collapse-in-the-1990s)

Cuba watchers are pushing a new "domino theory" lately. They suggest that
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prefers the more ac-curate description, "oil on preferential terms".

The embargo has not harmed the Cuba–Castro would have squandered resources anyways
Jorge 2k (Dr. Antonio, Professor of Political Economy at Florida International University, "The U.S. Embargo and the Failure of the Cuban Economy" (2000).Institute for Cuban 26 Cuban-American Studies Occasional Papers.Paper 28. http://scholarlyrepository.miami.edu/iccaspapers/28)

Under the real world of Castroism, however, the answer must be a terse
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not have been any different, regardless of who had financed his Revolution.
Reforms won’t be large enough to solve
Ravsberg, 13 – BBC correspondent for Cuba (Fernando, "Cuba’s Economic System: Reform or Change?", June 20, 2013, http://www.havanatimes.org/?p=95012~~23sthash.Ev4eCAh6.dpuf)
HAVANA TIMES — Marino Murillo, Vice-Chairman of Cuba’s Council of Ministers and
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importers take all the time in the world to decide what to purchase. 

Cuba’s economy is resilient and recovering–reforms, GDP growth, employment, and growth in industry prove it will only expand in the future
Xinhua 7-2-2013 (Xinhua, Chinese news agency, july 2, 2013. "Cuba making economic progress: president." http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/business/2013-07/02/c_132503979.htm-http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/business/2013-07/02/c_132503979.htm)
President Raul Castro says the communist island’s economic transformations are advancing fast with noticeable results
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, will consider reports from the ministries of economy and finance and prices.

Plan can’t solve Cuban collapse–current Cuban economic model prohibits foreign direct investment. It’s centralized economy makes growth structurally impossible
Feinberg 11 - professor of international political economy at UC San Dieg, nonresident senior fellow with the Latin America Initiative at Brookings (Richard E., "Reaching Out: Cuba’s New Economy and the International Response", November, Brookings, http://www.brookings.edu/~~/media/research/files/papers/2011/11/1820cuba20feinberg/1118_cuba_feinberg.pdf)

Despite these advances, the Cuban economy remains in the doldrums (as described in
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their bilateral trade accounts, but are frustrated by Cuba’s scant economic offerings.

No full scale collapse–remittances, tourism, oil investment and trade diversification contain the fallout
Messa-Lago, 13 – Professor Emeritus of Economics and Latin American Studies at the University of Pittsburgh (Carmelo, "The possible impact of the death of Chavez in the Cuban economy", 12/03/2013, http://www.cubaencuentro.com/cuba/articulos/el-posible-impacto-de-la-muerte-de-chavez-en-la-economia-cubana-283444, translated from Spanish by Google Translate)

If substantially reduce or end Venezuelan aid (equivalent to more than a fifth of
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of trade and investment with other countries but not yet achieved substantial results.

1NC Multilat Defense

Multilateralism empirically fails–structural problems and ideological differences guarantee institutions will never solve
Harvey, 4 – University Research Professor of International Relations, professor in the Department of Political Science, and the director of the Centre for Foreign Policy Studies at Dalhousie University (Frank, Smoke And Mirrors: Globalized Terrorism And The Illusion Of Multilateral Security, p. 43-45) 

The typical argument favouring multilateralism is a simple one, sum- marized by Ramesh
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threats virtually guarantees that similar conflicts will plague multilateral institutions in the future.

Nowhere do they have a piece of internal link evidence that indicates that the plan is able to lead to the development of multilateral institutions, just that it’s a step in the right direction.
Plan can’t solve multilateralism–formal international institutions are prerequisites   
Lake, 10– Professor of Social Sciences, distinguished professor of political science at UC San Diego (David A., "Making America Safe for the World: Multilateralism and the Rehabilitation of US authority", http://dss.ucsd.edu/~~dlake/documents/LakeMaking AmericaSafe.pdf)
Retying the Knots
The safeguarding of US authority requires multilateralism that is broader and certainly deeper than in
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US foreign policy may appear too high a price to bear. 49¶ 

Litany of alt causes–the US needs to take broader international steps to solve multilateralism
Kugler 6 Professor of World Politics at Claremont Graduate University (Jacek, "The Asian Ascent: Opportunity for Peace or Precondition for War?", http://sobek.colorado.edu/~~lewiso/Kugler20-20The20Asian20Ascent.pdf)

To ensure real peace, the U.S. would be much better advised
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respect to them is central to the preservation of long-term peace.
The plan’s single instance of multilateralism doesn’t spillover
Fettweis 8 (Christopher – professor of political science at Tulane, Credibility and the War on Terror, Political Science Quarterly, Winter)
Since Vietnam, scholars have been generally unable to identify cases in which high credibility
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a coherent test; when it was, it almost inevitably failed.40

Multilateral engagement with Cuba won’t be sustained – The plan doesn’t change the indifference in U.S. policy
Cárdenas 11 – former assistant administrator for Latin America at the U.S. Agency for International Development (José R., "The U.S. is MIA in Latin America" , Foreign Policy, December 29 2011, http://shadow.foreignpolicy.com/posts/2011/12/29/the_us_is_mia_in_latin_america-http://shadow.foreignpolicy.com/posts/2011/12/29/the_us_is_mia_in_latin_america)
An end-of-the-year assessment of U.S. policy
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States stands idly on the sidelines, the chances they will succeed improve. 

1NC Solvency

1. Removing the embargo won’t solve – reforms in Cuba are a prerequisite to economic growth—empirics

Powell, 10 freelance writer for news sites (Michael Orion Powell, 4/3/10, http://blog.heritage.org/2010/04/03/cuba-change-is-not-one-sided/-http://blog.heritage.org/2010/04/03/cuba-change-is-not-one-sided/) KD
Lacey’s post-embargo Cuba sure sounds wonderful, but it forgets about the actions
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transformation that can happen simply through a change in our policies toward Cuba.¶

Tournament: State | Round: 4 | Opponent: Niles West IT | Judge: T Bryzny, S Verna

DA

New 1nc

The Ukraine package will pass with IMF reforms attached – but political capital’s key

Burgess and Everett 3-19
~Politics for Politico. "Congress pokes along on Ukraine aid" Politico, 3/19/14 lnGBS-JV~
The Russian incursion in Ukraine is putting pressure on a historically unproductive Congress to,
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Congress can get its act together now that it’s in the global spotlight.

Political capital’s key – the impact is the collapse of US leadership – it has to get done before the April IMF meetings

Truman 3-14
~Edwin M. Truman, senior fellow at the Peterson Institute for¶ International
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-9, 3/14/14 pdfGBS-JV~
The vital role played by the International Monetary Fund (IMF)¶ in stabilizing the
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¶ still awaits US congressional approval before it can go into¶ effect.

Key to trade growth and every other economic externality

Dabla-Norris et al ’14
~Era.  Deputy Chief in the IMF’s Strategy, Policy, and Review Department. Et al. "Anchoring Growth:
The Importance of Productivity-Enhancing Reforms in Emerging Market and Developing Economies" IMF Strategy, Policy and Review Department Staff Discussion Note, December 2013/January 2014. pdfGBS-JV~
Emerging market and developing economies (EMDEs) as a group¶ have experienced a
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and¶ improvements in living standards?would be pivotal in this regard.

Emerging market and developing economy growth is a controlling impact – alternative’s extinction

Aliu ’12
~Armando. Strategist at the Institute for Political Sciences at Hiedelberg Univ. "The BRICs Hegemony in a Post-American World Era – Analysis" Eurasia Review, 3/5/12 http://www.eurasiareview.com/05032012-the-brics-hegemony-in-a-post-american-world-era-analysis/~~
The Grand Strategy of the United States has been shaped between of Isolationism / Parochialism
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forces of global growth from turning into the forces of global disorder and disintegration

Appeasement

Cuba uses economic engagement against us – the plan is insufficient to alter Cuba’s desire to crush US leadership

Holmes ’95
Vice President and Director of Foreign and Defense Policy Studies (Kim R. - Heritage Foundation "Keep the Embargo on Cuba" June 23, 1995 http://www.heritage.org/research/reports/1995/06/keep-the-embargo-on-cuba)//EB
CUBA AND U.S. NATIONAL SECURITY While it is true that Castro no
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leftist organizations bent on the violent overthrow of democratic regimes in their countries.

The signal of appeasement ignites a host of conflicts and collapses hegemony

Cohen 3-19
~Eliot. Director of Strategic Studies at Johns Hopkins. "Eliot Cohen: American Withdrawal and Global Disorder" The Wall Street Journal, 3/19/13 lnGBS-JV~
In Mr. Obama’s second term the limits of such withdrawal from conventional military commitments
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must, and those with an option hurry up and get nuclear weapons. 

South China Sea conflict goes nuclear

Wesley ’12
~Michael Wesley, Non-Resident Senior Fellow at the Brookings Institution and an Adjunct Professor at Griffith University and The University of Sydney, former Executive Director of the Lowy Institute for International Policy, former Professor of International Relations and Director of the Griffith Asia Institute at Griffith University, and Senior Lecturer in International Relations at the University of New South Wales, July 2012, "What’s at stake in the South China Sea?" http://lowyinstitute.cachefly.net/files/wesley_whats_at_stake_snapshot11.pdf~~
The South China Sea is enclosed by the west coast of mainland Southeast Asia,
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the South China Sea will become ever more crowded with shipping and commerce. 

Russian aggression causes extinction

Corcoran ’9
~PhD, Senior Fellow @ Global Security, Frmr. Strategic Analyst at the US Army War College where he chaired studies for the Office of the Deputy Chief of Operations and member of the National Advisory Board for the Alsos Digital Library for Nuclear Issues, we win the qualification game, 4/21, http://sitrep.globalsecurity.org/articles/090421301-strategic-nuclear-targets.htm~~
That brings us to Russia, our former main adversary, now a competitive partner
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greatly complicate any efforts to stop escalation short of a total nuclear exchange.

CP

1NC

Text: The United States federal government should amend Section 211 to prohibit U.S. courts from recognizing, enforcing, or otherwise validating any assertion of rights by any person of a mark, trade name, or commercial name that was used in connection with a business or assets that were confiscated by the Cuban Government unless the original owner of the mark, trade name, or commercial name, or the bona fide successor-in-interest has expressly consented.

Solves and doesn’t link to ptx or appeasement

Farhadian 12- Sarah, J.D. candidate, Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law (2013); Editor in Chief, Cardozo Arts 26  Ent. L.J. Vol. 31; B.A., magna cum laude, Brandeis University (2007), STEALING BACARDI’S THUNDER:WHY THE PATENT AND TRADEMARK OFFICE SHOULD STOP REGISTERING STOLEN TRADEMARKS NOW, http://www.cardozoaelj.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/07/Farhadian.pdf-http://www.cardozoaelj.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/07/Farhadian.pdf, 10/9/13
¶ Two different approaches have been proposed in Congress to ¶ bring Section 211 into
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of refusing to give extraterritorial effects to uncompensated ¶ confiscations of property.135

K

1NC IPR K

Property rights fail – its intellable to try and establish "ownership" and promotes neoliberal methodologies. This independently turns their case.

McIntosh and Hatcher 10 - Wayne McIntosh is an Associate Professor and Associate Department Chair in the Department of Government and Politics at the University of Maryland, College Park. Laura Hatcher is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Political Science at Southern Illinois University Carbondale. (Wayne and Laura, August 2010, "Property Rights and Neoliberalism" http://www.ashgate.com/isbn/9780754678922)

In the case of property rights, neoliberalism’s role matters in part because it has
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innovation even places pressure on old forms of property, such as land. 

Neoliberalism orders the world that renders economically vulnerable societies disposable-creates structural violence and war

Giroux, McMaster cultural studies professor, 2008
(Henry, "Beyond the biopolitics of disposability: rethinking neoliberalism in the New Gilded Age", Social Identities; Sep2008, Vol. 14 Issue 5, p587-620, ebsco)
The mutually determining forces of every deepening inequality and an emerging repressive state apparatus have
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and exposed to murderous violence’ (Ziarek, 2008, p. 90). 

Vote neg to embrace the alt to remobilize the law and shift away from destructive practices and methodologies

McIntosh and Hatcher 10 - Wayne McIntosh is an Associate Professor and Associate Department Chair in the Department of Government and Politics at the University of Maryland, College Park. Laura Hatcher is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Political Science at Southern Illinois University Carbondale. (Wayne and Laura, August 2010, "Property Rights and Neoliberalism" http://www.ashgate.com/isbn/9780754678922)

Mobilization of law can take a variety of forms, all of which are aimed
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structure of property rights mobilizations, other institutions of government matter as well. 

WTO Adv

1NC

WTO Fails – TRIPS is ineffective

Blair and Huntsman 13 - Dennis and Jon are co-chairs of The Commission on the Theft of American Intellectual Property. Jon is also an American politician, businessman, and diplomat who served as the 16th Governor of Utah from 2005 to 2009, and as United States Ambassador to Singapore from 1992 to 1993, and China from 2009 to 2011. ("The IP Commission Report: The Report of the Commission on the Theft of American Intellectual Property", May 2013, http://ipcommission.org/report/IP_Commission_Report_052213.pdf-http://ipcommission.org/report/IP_Commission_Report_052213.pdf)
Traditionally, in order to solve trade disputes, most developed countries have relied on
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access to such clear ¶ evidence is restricted or otherwise unavailable.40 ¶ 

This impact is obviously empirically denied—weve been in noncompliance with the WTO for 13 years and other countries have still cooperated with us

Baldwin concludes neg – Doha failed and the ONLY way to make the WTO effective is by reforming the WTO to fit new norms, not the other way around

Baldwin 08 Baldwin, 7/1/08 ~Richard Edward Baldwin has been Professor of International Economics at the Graduate Institute, Geneva, since 1991 and Policy Director of CEPR since 2006, "The WTO tipping point", http://www.voxeu.org/index.php?q=node/1345~~~~-http://www.voxeu.org/index.php?q=node/1345~~
The World Trade Organisation is losing its place at the centre of the global trading
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climate change, pandemics, water scarcity, and the Millennium Development Goals.¶
*Where their card ends*
What is to be done?¶ Finishing the Doha Round this year would be a
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better to adapt the WTO’s current norms to address the new century’s realities.

Multilat institutions are a joke – can’t solve anything

Bisley ’11 ~Nick Bisley is a Professor of International Relations at La Trobe University, 19 May 2011, "More reasons to doubt multilateralism", http://www.lowyinterpreter.org/post/2011/05/19/More-reasons-to-doubt-multilateralism.aspx-http://www.lowyinterpreter.org/post/2011/05/19/More-reasons-to-doubt-multilateralism.aspx~~

One of the abiding features of diplomacy in the 20th century was the emergence of
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many entities, do not expect the current international policy malaise to pass.

Us. economic recovery inevitable due to restructuring – empirics prove

Altman 13 (ROGER C. ALTMAN is Executive Chair of Evercore Partners. He was U.S. Deputy Treasury Secretary in 1993–94, "The Fall and Rise of the West," January/February 2013-http://www.foreignaffairs.com/issues/2013/92/1, http://www.foreignaffairs.com/articles/138463/roger-c-altman/the-fall-and-rise-of-the-west?page=show~~23-http://www.foreignaffairs.com/articles/138463/roger-c-altman/the-fall-and-rise-of-the-west?page=show) GANGEEZY
The 2008 financial crisis and the Great Recession that followed have had devastating effects on
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capital markets rejecting the old order — and then inducing major economic restructuring.

No impact

Robert Jervis 11, Professor in the Department of Political Science and School of International and Public Affairs at Columbia University, December 2011, "Force in Our Times," Survival, Vol. 25, No. 4, p. 403-425
Even if war is still seen as evil, the security community could be dissolved
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times bring about greater economic conflict, it will not make war thinkable.

IP Adv

1NC

IPR fine now and the aff isn’t large enough to solve

Blair and Huntsman 13 - Dennis and Jon are co-chairs of The Commission on the Theft of American Intellectual Property. Jon is also an American politician, businessman, and diplomat who served as the 16th Governor of Utah from 2005 to 2009, and as United States Ambassador to Singapore from 1992 to 1993, and China from 2009 to 2011. ("The IP Commission Report: The Report of the Commission on the Theft of American Intellectual Property", May 2013, http://ipcommission.org/report/IP_Commission_Report_052213.pdf-http://ipcommission.org/report/IP_Commission_Report_052213.pdf)
In addition to participating in WTO dispute mechanisms such as TRIPS, the United States
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of the past and make immediate improvements in the protection of American IP.

Won’t solve IP rights – cases that matter don’t go to the WTO

PAUWELYN 10 - * Joost Pauwelyn is Professor of International Law at the Graduate Institute of International and¶ Development Studies, Geneva. ~"The Dog That Barked But Didn’t Bite:¶ 15 Years of Intellectual Property¶ Disputes at the WTO" http://jids.oxfordjournals.org/content/1/2/389.full.pdf~~23page=126view=FitH-http://jids.oxfordjournals.org/content/1/2/389.full.pdf~~
Many of the results described in this article can, at least partially, be
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serve as a court¶ of appeals on individual cases or controversies’.93

TRIPS causes IP skepticism

PAUWELYN 10 - * Joost Pauwelyn is Professor of International Law at the Graduate Institute of International and¶ Development Studies, Geneva. ~"The Dog That Barked But Didn’t Bite:¶ 15 Years of Intellectual Property¶ Disputes at the WTO" http://jids.oxfordjournals.org/content/1/2/389.full.pdf~~23page=126view=FitH-http://jids.oxfordjournals.org/content/1/2/389.full.pdf~~
The TRIPS agreement inspired both exaggerated hopes in the minds of the¶ IP lobby
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standards, a revenge of the IP sceptics. Man¶ bites dog.

IPR impossible – coordination and permanence

Yager 08 - Loren Yager, Director, International Affairs and Trade ~"INTELLECTUAL ¶ PROPERTY ¶ Leadership and ¶ Accountability Needed to ¶ Strengthen Federal ¶ Protection and ¶ Enforcement" http://www.gao.gov/assets/130/120379.pdf-http://www.gao.gov/assets/130/120379.pdf~~
The coordinating structure that has evolved for protecting U.S. intellectual ¶ property
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their roles in relation to it, and staff ¶ levels have declined.

Won’t mutate to kill hosts
Understanding evolution 07 – Website on Evolution from UC Berkeley (December, "Evolution from a virus’s view," http://evolution.berkeley.edu/evolibrary/news/071201_adenovirus)
Since transmission is a matter of life or death for pathogen lineages, some evolutionary
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level of virulence is clearly not a good thing from the virus’s perspective. 

Natural immunities means complete extinction impossible
Sowell 01  Fellow at Hoover Institution (Thomas, March 5, Jewish World Review, "The Dangers of "Equality", http://www.jewishworldreview.com/cols/sowell030501.asp)
People have different vulnerabilities and resistances to a variety of diseases. That is why one disease is unlikely to wipe out the human species, even in one place. An epidemic that sweeps through an area may leave some people dying like flies while others remain as healthy as horses.
Swine Flu outbreak of 09 disproves your impact—The USFG was able to get drugs to nearly the entire population and stop the pandemic—this postdates all their ev
US leadership is inevitable—specifically in the context of technological, economic, and military power
Ponniah 13 – Associate, David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies and Department of African and African-American Studies, Harvard University (Thomas, "Prediction for 2013: The decline of China and the resilience of the U.S.," 1/9, http://rabble.ca/columnists/2013/01/prediction-2013-decline-china-and-resilience-us)-http://rabble.ca/columnists/2013/01/prediction-2013-decline-china-and-resilience-us)
Many progressives — such as Walden Bello, Samir Amin, and the leftist states
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Japan’s portion of the world economy but not that of the United States.

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