Tournament: Evanston | Round: 2 | Opponent: GBN DF | Judge: I dont remember 3
I entered the buddhism k and the venezuela da for this round. I swear. I just don't want to get yelled at by aaron hardy

Tournament: Niles North | Round: Quarters | Opponent: Groves CP | Judge: Gobberdiel, Peter, Pipkin

Ableism PIC 1NC

CP text: My partner and I advocate the entirety of the first affirmative constructive without their use of pictures.

Aesthetics maintain ableism through spatial exclusion

Imrie 2K – Rob is in theDepartment of Geography at the University of London. (and#39;Disability and discourses of mobility and movementand#39;, Environment and Planning V. 32, pdf,)
3.2 Sociocultural contexts, mobility, and corporeal `dys-appearance’ Disabled
AND
, choice and participation are meaningless’’ (Corker, 1998, page 75).

These exclusions reinforce ableism and stigma

Livingston 2K, Professor of Sociology BS, Mercy College NY; MS, Queens College; PhD, Graduate School 26 University Center, (Kathy and#39;When architecture disables: Teaching undergraduates to perceive ableism in the built environmentandand#39; http://www.jstor.org/stable/pdfplus/1318988.pdf-)
The definition of disability used by the World Health Organization (WHO) is and#39;
AND
help perceiving and understanding these examples as illustrations of structural discrimination or ableism.

The medicalization of life causes eugenic violence

Elden 02 – Stuart Elden, politics at University of Warwick, (Boundary 2 29.2)
The reverse side is the power to allow death. State racism is a recoding
AND
men to be killed. (VS, 180; WK, 136).

Case 1NC

This card was read on case in the 1NC and was actually the card we won on so I feel like I should include it

The failure to articulate norms and standards allows grievability to be used in counterproductive ways – preventing the ultimate goals they wish to achieve

Nussbaum 99 – Professor of Law and Ethics at the University of Chicago (Martha C., The New Republic, and#39;and#39;The Professor of Parodyand#39;, 2-22-1999, http://www.akad.se/Nussbaum.pdf)
Suppose we grant Butler her most interesting claims up to this point: that the
AND
we have to articulate those norms—and this Butler refuses to do.

Ableism PIC 1NR

I’m including the cards read in the 1NR because Roche only went for the 1NR arguments and nothing from the 1NC except the CP text lol (no eugenics in the 2NR)

Pictures canand#39;t be arguments

Fleming 96 – (David, some kind of comm dude, Argumentation and Advocacy, Summer)
To sum up, argument is reasoning towards a debatable conclusion. It is a
AND
with is clearly argumentative; but it is no longer The Great Gatsby.

Pictures generate the worst forms of advocacy

Fleming 96 – (David, some kind of comm dude, Argumentation and Advocacy, Summer)
What O’Keefe (1977) calls and#39;argumentand#39; (a reason-
AND
line is merely a visual substitute for the verbal utterance and#39;No smokingand#39.

We have an independent impact—mixing aesthetic concerns with political argument encourages mass murder—totalitarian violence will remain unchecked

Teachout 03 – (Terry, Commentary music critic and the drama critic of the Wall Street Journal, Commentary, September 2003)
Hitler, in short, was a deranged idealist, a painter who sought power
AND
In the end, beauty excuses nothing, least of all mass murder.

Tournament: New Trier | Round: 4 | Opponent: GBN AR | Judge: 

Obama’s primary focus is increased engagement in Asia

Palmer 9-26
Douglas. Trade Expert for Politico, Reuters. "President Obama to dive into Pacific trade talks" Politico, 9/26/13 lnGBS-JV
President Barack Obama and leaders of 11 other countries are set to get directly involved
AND
followed a similar letter in June signed by 230 members of the House.

But increased engagement with Latin America trades off

Sharpe ’13
~Patricia Lee, a US based journalist, teacher and foreign service officer, "The Asian Pivot and Obama’s Gum-Chewing Problem", http://whirledview.typepad.com/whirledview/2013/05/the-pivot-and-obamas-gum-chewing-problem.html~~23sthash.ersSkGID.dpuf-http://whirledview.typepad.com/whirledview/2013/05/the-pivot-and-obamas-gum-chewing-problem.html GBS-JV~
The President, it seems, can’t walk and chew gum. The so-
AND
Otherwise, it’s not a middling power, much less a super power.

The impact’s nuclear war

Colby ’11
~Elbridge Colby, research analyst at the Center for Naval Analyses, served as policy advisor to the Secretary of Defense’s Representative to the New START talks, expert advisor to the Congressional Strategic Posture Commission, August 10, 2011, "Why the U.S. Needs its Liberal Empire," The Diplomat, online: http://the-diplomat.com/2011/08/10/why-us-needs-its-liberal-empire/2/?print=yes-http://the-diplomat.com/2011/08/10/why-us-needs-its-liberal-empire/2/?print=yes~~

Tournament: Harvard | Round: 7 | Opponent: Edgemont NJ | Judge: Evan McCarty
Later

Tournament: Blake | Round: 5 | Opponent: Minneapolis South GE | Judge: Kyle Joseph
Nothing New

Tournament: Evanston | Round: 2 | Opponent: GBN DF | Judge: I dont remember 3

Their approach to international relations is an attempt to ground the self – this creates a self-fulfilling prophecy

Loy 10 – (David has a M.A. in Asian philosophy from the University of Hawaii and a Ph.D. in philosophy from the National University of Singapore. He was a professor on the Faculty of International Studies at Bunkyo University in Japan, now Professor of Ethics/Religion and Society at Xavier University.  "Healing Ecology" http://blogs.dickinson.edu/buddhistethics/files/2010/05/Loy-Healing-Ecology1.pdf-http://blogs.dickinson.edu/buddhistethics/files/2010/05/Loy-Healing-Ecology1.pdf) BW
So what does Buddhism have to offer us today, as we struggle to respond
AND
a lot of the world’s problems occur because of competition between group selves. 

Cycles of violence and nuclear extinction become inevitable – the ego numbs us to violence against others – interrogation of this must start within

Daisaku Ikeda 07, Buddhist philosopher and president of Soka Gokkai International, "Restoring the Human Connection: The First Step to Global Peace," http://www.sgi-uk.org/resources/PeaceProposal2007.pdf
Similarly, when I met with Mohamed ElBaradei, director general of the International Atomic
AND
surpass, unable to countenance inferiority, disparaging others and overvaluing oneself."11
When in the world of anger, we are always engaged in invidious comparisons with others, always seeking to excel over them. The resulting distortions prevent us from perceiving the world accurately; we fall easily into conflict, locking horns with others at the slightest provocation. Under the sway of such anger, people can commit unimaginable acts of violence and bloodshed.
Another Buddhist text portrays one in the world of anger as "84,000
AND
certain sense makes inevitable the birth of such demonic progeny as nuclear weapons.

The alternative is to shed the ego – the self is socially constructed, we recognize the true base of the self, which is an interconnected consciousness with all other beings

Dale Snauwaert, Fall 09 Associate Professor of Educational Theory and Social Foundations of Education; Chair of the Department of Foundations of Education, University of Toledo. "The Ethics and Ontology of Cosmopolitanism: Education for a Shared Humanity," Current Issues in Comparative Education 12.1, http://www.tc.edu/cice/Issues/12.01/PDFs/12_01_Complete_Issue.pdf-http://www.tc.edu/cice/Issues/12.01/PDFs/12_01_Complete_Issue.pdf.
What I want to achieve . . . is self-realization . . .
AND
the essence of morality, rests upon an awareness of our fundamental interconnection.

Tournament: Harvard | Round: 5 | Opponent: Walter Payton BC | Judge: Kevin Hirn

Text: In the next available test case, the federal judiciary should find and durably rule that the United States federal government is obligated to rescind the Cuban Democracy Act, the Helms-Burton Act of 1996, the Toricelli Act of 1992, and any and all other commercial, economic and/or financial sanctions against Cuba on the grounds of customary international law. We’ll clarify.

The embargo violates the right to develop component of customary international law—the Supreme Court should strike it down

Manchak 10 – Ben Manchak is a staff writer for the Boston College Third World Law Journal. ("COMPREHENSIVE ECONOMIC SANCTIONS, THE RIGHT TO DEVELOPMENT, AND CONSTITUTIONALLY IMPERMISSIBLE VIOLATIONS OF INTERNATIONAL LAW", Spring 2010)
The right to development is an inalienable human right intrinsically linked to a peoples’ sovereignty
AND
responsibilities under treaty and customary international law regarding the right to development. n42

Application of customary international law’s inevitable, but applying it in direct contravention to existing precedent is key to the legitimacy of the doctrine

Kundmueller 02 – ~Michelle. MA in Political Theory and JD from Notre Dame Law. "Note: The Application of Customary International Law in US Courts: Custom, Convention, or Pseudolegislation?" The Journal of Legislation, 2002. lnGBS-JV~
This Note has attempted to demonstrate some of the difficulties of applying customary international law
AND
is beginning to define relationships between governments and their citizens and amongst citizens. 

The embargo’s a key test case to establish lasting incorporation

Porotsky 95 – ~Richard. Partner in the Dinsmore’s Litigation Department and a member of the Insurance Practice Group. JD – Vanderbilt 1996. "Economic Coercion and the General Assembly: a Post-Cold War Assessment of the Legality and Utility of the Thirty-Five-Year Old Embargo Against Cuba" The Vanderbilt Journal of Transnational Law, Vol 28 N901. Oct 1995 lnGBS-JV~
This Note attempts to answer the question of whether the United States’ Cuban embargo violates
AND
opposed to trying to have an international legal norm against economic coercion recognized.

The impact’s extinction

Damrosch and Mullerson 95 – ~Professor of Law, Columbia, and Professor of International Law, King’s, Beyond Confrontation, International Law for the Post Cold War Era, p. 2-3I. Pressures on International Law: Demands Placed on It and Obstacles to Its Effectiveness~
The contemporary world has an ever increasing need for an international legal system that can
AND
with the U.N. Charter and other norms of international law.

Tournament: IDCA JV State | Round: Semis | Opponent: GBN CR | Judge: Oddo, Fahrenbacher, Weston
Later

Tournament: Contact Info | Round: 1 | Opponent: no | Judge:
brianroche6@gmail.com for cites

Tournament: Evanston | Round: 6 | Opponent: Walter Payton BC | Judge: Kim Pressling

We advocate economic engagement towards Mexico by giving ourselves to Mexico in the symbolic economy of death with the exception of their analogy of "the third brother".

This analogy makes no sense in the context of Harry Potter and guarantees the aff fails—in Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, the third brother gives his life to death ONLY AFTER he has lived a full life. Proven by their card: "But though Death searched for the third brother for many years, he was never able to find him. It was only when he had attained a great age that the youngest brother finally took off the Cloak of Invisibility and gave it to his son. And then he greeted Death as an old friend, and went with him gladly, and, equals, they departed this life."

You should reject this analogy-in a world of the aff, people will never actually GIVE THEIR LIVES in the symbolic economy of death, they’ll just accept death when it arrives. Vote neg to endorse symbolic suicide as a more productive strategy-their card

Fernando 10 (Jeremy, "The Suicide Bomber; and her gift of death" Pg. 125-126)
We might provisionally begin our glimpse into the phenomenon by considering the notion that suicide
AND
for surely there is no content in this emptiness, to this emptiness.

Tournament: GMNDC | Round: 2 | Opponent: Mukwonago MZ | Judge: Matthew Fahrenbacher
Will post upon request

Tournament: Niles North | Round: 2 | Opponent: Mukwanago DP | Judge: Philip Holsted

Democratic Reform Turn 1NC

The plan strengthens the regime—makes any economic benefits impossible

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/)
Lifting the ban for U.S. tourists to travel to Cuba would be
AND
, and investments in Cuba would develop. Yet there are significant implications.

Tournament: Niles North | Round: 2 | Opponent: Mukwanago DP | Judge: Philip Holsted

Revolución Bolivariana

Movements aligned against Western modernity are succeeding now in Latin America, but it’s tenuous. The plan reverses the trend, causes ecological destruction, and exacerbates the harms of the 1AC. Rejecting their method is a prior question

Escobar 10 – Arturo. Prof Anthropology at UNC-Chapel Hill. and#34;Latin America at a Crossroads: Alternative Modernizations, Post-Liberalism, or Post-Development?and#34; Cultural Studies, Vol 24 N1. 2010. EbscoGBS-JV
Deeply enmeshed in the history of Western modernity since the Conquest, the region
AND
life and to reconnect with the stream of life in the planet.

Status quo models of western imperialism renders entire populations disposable and risks extinction

Alvares 92 – Claude Alvares, Director of the Goa Foundation, an environmental monitoring action group in India, 1992 and#34;Development as Propaganda; as Ideology,and#34; Science, Development and Violence: The Revolt Against Modernity, Published by Oxford University Press, ISBN 0195632818, p. 107-108
Development, in other words, is nothing less than propaganda about a way of
AND
can only be helped by catering first to the affluent of the planet.

The alternative is to vote negative – this signifies a radical break with imperial modernity that legitimizes alternative forms of knowledge and eliminates violent environmental and cultural dualism

Escobar 10 – Arturo. Prof Anthropology at UNC-Chapel Hill. and#34;Latin America at a Crossroads: Alternative Modernizations, Post-Liberalism, or Post-Development?and#34; Cultural Studies, Vol 24 N1. 2010. EbscoGBS-JV
Underlying the discussion of post-liberalism has been the idea that there are
AND
avenue of inquiry and political engagement (2005, p. 189).

Tournament: Harvard | Round: 2 | Opponent: Bronx Science GL | Judge: Stephen Weil
The European Union should
EU is the best actor for economically engaging Latin America – most entrenched trade influence, high leverage, ability to encourage open markets – US engagement attempts fail
Barbara Kosny, xx-xx-2009, partial fulfillment of requirements for degree of Master in Political Science in the Department of Political Science @ University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, "The Distinctiveness of the European Union’s Influence on Latin America: European Values, Governance, and Integration," https://cdr.lib.unc.edu/indexablecontent?id=uuid:84b38be2-9899-47ae-8d93-6f86f52f432626ds=DATA_FILE-https://cdr.lib.unc.edu/indexablecontent?id=uuid:84b38be2-9899-47ae-8d93-6f86f52f432626ds=DATA_FILE
Europe must use foreign policy tools, such as regional integration, in order to
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political linkage is most developed in Latin America than any other regional initiative.

Tournament: IDCA JV State | Round: Semis | Opponent: GBN CR | Judge: Oddo, Fahrenbacher, Weston
The aff’s framing of energy policy as a question of impacts to avoid obscures the affirmative question of what kind of society we want to build—they cement the hegemony of technological thought and undermine democratic decision making
WINNER 1989 (Prof of Poli Sci at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, The Whale and the Reactor)
In recent times the idea of recognizing limits upon the growth of certain technologies has experienced something of a revival. Many people are prepared to entertain the notion of limiting a given technology if:

1. Its application threatens public health or safety
   2. Its use threatens to exhaust some vital resource
   3. It degrades the quality of the environment (air, land, and
   water)
   4. It threatens natural species and wilderness areas that ought
   to be preserved
   5. Its application causes social stresses and strains of an exaggerated
   kind.
   Along with ongoing discussions about ways to sustain economic growth, national competitiveness, and prosperity, these are the only matters of technology assessment that the general public, decision makers, and academicians are prepared to take seriously.
   While such concerns are valid, they severely restrict the range of moral and political
   AND
   ozone layer, or some other-one might as well remain silent.
   The conversation about technology and society has continued to a point at which an obvious
   AND
   that derive from a positively articulated idea of what society ought to be.
   As a way of beginning that project, I would suggest a simple heuristic exercise
   AND
   of technology are compatible with the kind of society we want to build?
   Answers to that question often appear as subliminal themes or concealed agendas in policy discussions
   AND
   be the soft energy path brought to you by you and your neighbors?
   Whatever one’s position might be, the prevailing consensus required that all parties base their
   AND
   numerator and dollars in the denominator and worshipping the resulting ratio as gospel.
   Even those who held unorthodox viewpoints in this debate found it necessary to uphold the
   AND
   and easier." 17 But what if the analysis had shown the contrary?
   Would Lovins have been prepared to give up the social advantages believed to exist along
   AND
   that stuffy Trojan horse too long, even soldiers of virtue eventually suffocate.

This primacy of technique turns the case and causes extinction
WILKINSON 1964 (John, Center for the Study of Democratic Institutions, forward to The Technological Society by Jacques Ellul)
It should not be imagined, however, that the universal concentration camp which Ellus
AND
except madness, is only too capable of outbreaks of irrational suicidal destructiveness.
The escape valves of modern literature and art, which technique has contrived, may
AND
like everything else, bears within itself the seeds of its own destruction.
It must not be imagined that the autonomous technique envisioned by Ellul is a kind
AND
. Things could have eventuated in the technological society otherwise than they have.
Technique, to Ellul, is a "blind" force, but one which unfortunately seems to be more perspicacious than the best discernible human intelligences. There are other ways out, Ellul maintains, but nobody wants any part of them.
Ellul’s insistence that the technical phenomenon is not a determinism is not weakened by the enumeration (in the second chapter) of five conditions which are said to be "necessary and sufficient" for its outburst in the recent past, since the sufficient conditions for the conditions (for example, the causes of the population explosion) are not ascertainable.
The inertia of the technical phenomenon guarantees not only the continued refinement and production of
AND
being of society, if by well-being we understand social equilibrium. 

The alternative is to reject the 1AC- only this iconoclastic rejection of the ’technique’ opens up a space for truly reasonable debate
KOWALSKI AND HALUZA-DE LAY 2011 (Nathan, St. Joseph’s College; Randolph, King’s University College, "Homo Energeticus: An Ellulian Analysis of the Alberta Tar Sands," Dec 17, http://www.academia.edu/1216875/Homo_energeticus_Jacques_Ellul_on_the_Alberta_Oilsands)
Kevin Garrison summarizes thus: modern techno-logic is "a continual move toward
AND
inevitability and irresistibility, when this is, in fact, not true.
In the end, the point of Ellul’s analysis is that techno-logic is
AND
can truly reasonable debate take place as to how their development might proceed.

Tournament: Evanston | Round: 4 | Opponent: New Trier BK | Judge: Sharmeen Khan

The affirmative’s apocalyptic framing of climate change results in denial and inaction

Foust et al ’8
~Christina. Asst Prof Communications at Denver. Et Al. "Global Warming and Apocalyptic Rhetoric: A Critical Frame Analysis of US Popular and Elite Press Coverage from 1997-2007." Environmental Communication Division of the National Communication Association, November 2008. http://citation.allacademic.com/meta/p_mla_apa_research_citation/2/6/0/1/2/pages260125/p260125-22.php//GBS-JV~~
Elements of an apocalyptic frame could be said to exist in most of the articles
AND
necessarily because they are taking collective and personal steps to resolve the issue.

Their paranoid projections and apocalyptic rhetoric guarantee extinction.

Hollander 03 – 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
AND
believes that such denial only increases reliance on projective mechanisms and stimulates paranoia. 

Vote negative to interrogate cycles of enemy creation. This can create fissures in the narratives that make war inevitable.

Byles 03 – English, U Cyprus (Joanna, Psychoanalysis and War: The Superego and Projective Identification, http://www.clas.ufl.edu/ipsa/journal/articles/art_byles01.shtml, AMiles)
It is here of course that language plays an important role in imagining the other
AND
a state of mind and, most importantly, a way of thinking.

Tournament: Evanston | Round: Finals | Opponent: Niles West CH | Judge: Hirn, Doe, Caminer
See other entries, everything's posted.

Tournament: Niles North | Round: Quarters | Opponent: Groves CP | Judge: Gobberdiel, Peter, Pipkin

Framework 1NC

A. Interpretation and Violation: The affirmative claims they should win the debate for reasons other than the consequences of the plan were it to be done by the federal government.  They should only get offense based on the effects of the plan, not abstractions that are loosely tied to the 1AC

1. and#39;Resolvedand#39; means debate should be a legislative forum

Army Officer School 04 - (5-12, and#39;Punctuation – The Colon and Semicolonand#39;, http://usawocc.army.mil/IMI/wg12.htm)
The colon introduces the following: a. A list, but only after and#34;
AND
and#39;resolved:and#39; Resolved: (colon) That this council petition the mayor.

2. The United States is the country composed of the 50 states

Encarta 07 - The Encarta Online Dictionary. and#39;United Statesand#39; 2007 encarta.msn.com
United States y? n?t?d stáyts country in central North America, consisting of 50 states. Languages: English. Currency: dollar. Capital: Washington, D.C.. Population: 290,342,550 (2001). Area: 9,629,047 sq km (3,717,796 sq mi.) Official name United States of America

3. The federal government is the government in Washington DC – not its individual members

AHD 02 - The American Heritage Dictionary. 2002, Pg 647GBS-JV
Of or relating to the central government of a federation as distinct from the governments of its member units.

4. and#39;Shouldand#39; means the debate is solely about a policy established by governmental means

Ericson 03 - (Jon M., Dean Emeritus of the College of Liberal Arts – California Polytechnic U., et al., The Debater’s Guide, Third Edition, p. 4)
The Proposition of Policy: Urging Future Action In policy propositions, each topic contains
AND
compelling reasons for an audience to perform the future action that you propose.

5. Substantial means substance

MW 08 - (Merriam Webster Dictionary. and#39;substantialand#39;, 2008, http://www.merriam-webster.com/cgi-bin/dictionary?book=Dictionary26va=substantially)
Main Entry: sub•stan•tial 1 a: consisting of or relating to substance b: not imaginary or illusory : real, true c: important, essential

Vote negative -

Decision-Making – a limited topic with equitable ground is key to our ability to advocate for things inside and outside of the contest round.  This provides adequate flexibility and innovation, but keeps the discussion targeted so that we can debate the merits of controversy

Steinberg and Freely 08 - Austin – Civil Rights Attorney and David – Lecturer in Communication at Miami. Argumentation and Debate: Critical Thinking for Reasoned Decision Making, 2008, Pg 45GBS-JV
Debate is a means of settling differences, so there must be a difference of
AND
Congress to make progress on the immigration debate during the summer of 2007.

Linking the ballot to a should question in combination with USFG simulation teaches the skills to organize pragmatic consequences and philosophical values into a course of action – that’s the core of switch side debate

Hanghøj 08 - Thorkild. Since this PhD project began in 2004, the present author has been affiliated with DREAM (Danish Research Centre on Education and Advanced Media Materials), which is located at the Institute of Literature, Media and Cultural Studies at the University of Southern Denmark. Research visits have taken place at the Centre for Learning, Knowledge, and Interactive Technologies (L-KIT), the Institute of Education at the University of Bristol and the institute formerly known as Learning Lab Denmark at the School of Education, University of Aarhus, where he currently works as an assistant professor. and#39;Playful Knowledge: An Explorative Study of Educational Gamingand#39; PhD Dissertation at The Institute of Literature, Media and Cultural Studies at the University of Southern Denmark. 2008, http://static.sdu.dk/mediafiles/Files/Information_til/Studerende_ved_SDU/Din_uddannelse/phd_hum/afhandlinger/2009/ThorkilHanghoej.pdf-
Joas’ re-interpretation of Dewey’s pragmatism as a and#39;theory of situated creativityand#39;
AND
the contingent outcomes and domain-specific processes of problem-based scenarios.  

Pragmatic Political Engagement - a focus on policy is necessary to learn the pragmatic details of powerful institutions – acting without this knowledge is doomed to fail in the face of policy professionals who make the decisions that actually affect outcomes

McClean 01 - (David E., and#39;The Cultural Left and the Limits of Social Hopeandand#39;, Conference of the Society for the Advancement of American Philosophy, http://www.americanphilosophy.org/archives/past_conference_programs/pc2001/
Or we might take Foucault who, at best, has provided us with what
AND
critics with their snobish disrespect for the so-called and#39;managerial class.and#39; 

Their use of pictures link turns any reason why images and performance can be good - treating them as arguments collapses the distinctions that allow them to be studied in their own right

Fleming 96 - (David, some kind of comm dude, Argumentation and Advocacy, Summer)
Others, however, have resisted the idea of non-linguistic argumentation. Perelman
AND
analysts will attend to the rhetorical functions that pictures can and do serve.

Tournament: GMNDC | Round: 4 | Opponent: Niles West DS | Judge: Ryan Zelmer
Nothing New

Tournament: HoFlo | Round: 3 | Opponent: Niles West NP | Judge: Chris Carey
Text: the United States federal government should authorize the North American Development Bank to finance geospatial referencing projects including through a bi-national bond financing mechanism.  The United States federal government should share any data related to cross-border congestion and efficiency with Mexico. We’ll clarify.
The counterplan solves the case – reduces transportation congestion via monitoring without building new infrastructure
Paska ’9
~Eva. PhD of Geodetic Science from Ohio State. "State of the Art Remote Sensing Geospatial Technologies in Support of Transportation Monitoring and Management" 2009, ProQuest Dissertation Database GBS-JV~
Federal and local government transportation management services monitor and¶ control the traffic over the
AND
. The trend of switching toward imaging¶ technologies is expected to increase.
A total-view, total-integration framework overcomes any flaws in existing transportation management
Hauser et al ’11
~Ed. Dir of the Center for Transportation Policy at University of North Carolina. "Remote Sensing for Bridge Monitoring" 2011, American Society of Civil Engineers Geotechnical Special Publication ~23214, 2011. EbscoGBS-JV~
Before the infrastructure industry catch on with CRS technologies, however, there¶ is
AND
enhanced¶ bridge damage data in the context of infrastructure "total management".

Tournament: St Marks Hoedown | Round: Finals | Opponent: Westminster CD | Judge: Arsht, Makuch, Sawyer

Crop yields are expanding – industrial agriculture’s the key reason

CNN ’13
~CNN News. "Think Smart; Eat Mindfully; Save 24 and the Environment" 4-12-13 http://ireport.cnn.com/docs/DOC-954761//GBS-JV~~
Fast forward to 2013. The population has burgeoned. Global food production is up
AND
languish in hunger while tons of avoidable food wastes end up in landfills21

But the plan causes a global shift toward small farming and sustainable agriculture

Shkolnick 12 – JD Candidate, Drake University Law School. ("SIN EMBARGO: THE CUBAN AGRICULTURAL REVOLUTION AND WHAT IT MEANS FOR THE UNITED STATES", 17 Drake J. Agric. L. 683, Fall, http://students.law.drake.edu/aglawjournal/docs/agVol17No3-Shkolnick.pdf)
Cuba today is experiencing the most rapid shifts towards privatization and reform since the revolution
AND
presents a unique opportunity American business and agricultural enterprises cannot afford to overlook.

High crop yields control conflict

Calvin ’98
~William. Neurophysiologist @ U of Washington. "The Greenhouse Connection" The Atlantic Monthly, Vol 281 No 1.  January 1998. ProquestJVOSS~
The population-crash scenario is surely the most appalling. Plummeting crop yields would
AND
longer do so if it lost the extra warming from the North Atlantic.

Lack of food makes every scenario for war inevitable

Easterbrook ’97
(Gregg, "Forgotten Benefactor of Humanity," http://www.theatlantic.com/issues/97jan/borlaug/borlaug.htm)
~Borlaug = Nobel-Prize winning advocate of industrial agriculture and professor at Texas A26M~
HIS opponents may not know it, but Borlaug has long warned of the dangers
AND
numerical scale, will exceed the worst of everything that has come before."

Tournament: Harvard | Round: 3 | Opponent: Cooper MV | Judge: Madhu Vijay
Nothing new

Tournament: Maine East | Round: 1 | Opponent: Maine East LP | Judge: Sean Farris

Heg Bad

Heg causes war and prolif-recalcitrant power balancing takes out the benefits of heg

Monteiro 11 *Nuno P. Monteiro is Assistant Professor of Political Science at Yale University http://www.mitpressjournals.org/doi/pdf/10.1162/ISEC_a_00064-http://www.mitpressjournals.org/doi/pdf/10.1162/ISEC_a_00064, and#34;Unrest Assured: Why Unipolarity is not Peacefuland#34;
A unipole carrying out a defensive-dominance strategy will seek to preserve all three
AND
shifted toward a strategy of offensive dominance, to which I turn next. 

Extinction

Asal and Beardsley 09 (Victor, Department of Political Science, State University of New York, Albany, and Kyle, Department of Political Science, Emory University, Winning with the Bomb, http://belfercenter.ksg.harvard.edu/files/uploads/Beardsley-Asal_Winning_with_the_Bomb.pdf-http://belfercenter.ksg.harvard.edu/files/uploads/Beardsley-Asal_Winning_with_the_Bomb.pdf)
Conclusion Why do states proliferate? Nuclear weapons and the programs necessary to create them
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necessarily mean that the weapons are a net benefit for peace and stability.

Tournament: HoFlo | Round: 5 | Opponent: UC Lab CL | Judge: Jared Zuckerman
Nothing New

Tournament: Blake | Round: 3 | Opponent: Kent Denver DG | Judge: Carly WunderlichWatson

Grid’s expanding now but the rapid nature of the plan causes overstretch and shuts it down

Garrison ’10
Environment and Climate Change Consultant for the United States Agency for International Development (John L, "Clean Energy 26 Climate Change Opportunities Assessment for USAID/Mexico," USAID, 4/30/10, http://pdf.usaid.gov/pdf_docs/PNADS950.pdf)
A key issue for renewable energy power development is access to electricity grid infrastructure.
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current economic climate, the transmission expansion envisioned by RETI may not materialize.

Mexican grid collapse’s an existential threat

Wald 8-16
~Matthew.  Energy Reporter for the NYT. "As Worries Over the Power Grid Rise, a Drill Will Simulate a Knockout Blow" New York Times, 8/16/13 lnGBS-JV~
 A National Academy of Sciences report last year said that terrorists could cause broad
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power failure took a few moments to spread from Detroit to New York.

Tournament: Michigan | Round: 5 | Opponent: Wayzata NG | Judge: Alex Pappas
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Tournament: HoFlo | Round: 3 | Opponent: Niles West NP | Judge: Chris Carey

Chinese manufacturing’s outpacing the US

Rushton 1-10
~Katharine. Economics for the Telegraph. "China overtakes US to become world’s biggest goods trading nation" The Telegraph (UK), 1/10/14 lnGBS-JV~
 America has finally lost its crown to China as the world’s biggest goods trading
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them being reversed significantly, at least in the short to medium term."

Nearshoring reverses the trend

Dyer ’8
~Martin is a Corporate Accountant at Big Red, Inc. He holds a BA in Finance from LSU. "The Effects of U.S. Outsourcing to China," http://www.lsu.edu/faculty/jwither/Essays/Immigration_Trade/Dyer_Essay.html-http://www.lsu.edu/faculty/jwither/Essays/Immigration_Trade/Dyer_Essay.html~~
"Made in America" is quickly becoming a lost phrase. Outsourcing is a
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force tends to be more skilled, higher educated, and better disciplined."

Nuclear war and Chinese state collapse

Mead ’9
~Walter Russell Mead, Henry A. Kissinger Senior Fellow in U.S. Foreign Policy at the Council on Foreign Relations, "Only Makes You Stronger," The New Republic, 2/4/9, http://www.tnr.com/story_print.html?id=571cbbb9-2887-4d81-8542-92e83915f5f8~~
The greatest danger both to U.S.-China relations and to American power
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modernization and change; nobody knows what will happen if the growth stops.

CCP collapse is an existential risk

Renxing ’5
~The Epoch Times, Renxing San, 8/4/2005, 8/4, http://english.epochtimes.com/news/5-8-4/30931.html~~
Since the Party’s life is "above all else," it would not be surprising
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now plans to hold one billion people hostage and gamble with their lives.

Tournament: IDCA JV State | Round: 1 | Opponent: Lane Tech MP | Judge: Jeff Buntin

The plan’s focus on economic integration and regional "development" kills status quo movements that are succeeding in overthrowing the historically imposed hegemonic neoliberal agenda

Harris 08 – (Richard L Harris: Professor of Global Studies at California State University, Monterey Bay; Managing Editor of the Journal of Developing Societies (SAGE India); and Coordi¬nating Editor of Latin American Perspectives (SAGE USA). "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. 

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 to vote negative to reject neoliberal knowledge production and endorse globalization from below. Refusing neoliberalism’s hegemonic control over knowledge production is essential within the space of this debate – the alternative aligns the ballot with Latin American resistance movements

CHOI ET AL 4
Jung Min, John W Murphy, Manuel J Caro, Professor of Sociology SDSU, Professor of Sociology University of Miami, Professor of Sociology Barry University, Globalization with a Human Face,  pg. 6-9

Many critics have begun to wonder why hamburgers and jeans can be globalized, but
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less alienating ways? With little left to why not pursue alternative visions?

Tournament: Evanston | Round: 6 | Opponent: Walter Payton BC | Judge: Kim Pressling

The 1AC is just another cultural study – Harry Potter is presented as a fetishized text, waiting to be debunked and decoded through their carded analysis of Harry Potter, neglecting the value Harry Potter holds sans interpretation

Bryant 12 – (Levi R. Bryant, prof of phil @ Collin College, The Power of Things, Larvalsubjects, 7/11/12, http://larvalsubjects.wordpress.com/2012/07/11/the-power-of-things/)
A lot of people ask what the political dimension of OOO might be. I
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horizons and begin to see a world as if the hammers were broken.

This reducibility makes anthropocentrism inevitable – objects become defined in terms of the Human subject, analyzed, established in terms of representation and sign, making movement failure inevitable. The alternative is to affirm an object-oriented ontology to redefine our spaces of distinction

Bryant 11, Bryant Professor of Philosophy at Collin College (2011 Levi Democracy of Objects http://quod.lib.umich.edu/o/ohp/9750134.0001.001/1:4/~~-~~-democracy-of-objects?rgn=div1;view=fulltext)
Yet in all of the heated debates surrounding epistemology that have cast nearly every discipline
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to draw our distinctions in such a way as to exclude nonhuman actors.

Anthropocentrism makes violence inevitable

Deckha 10 (Associate Professor at the University of Victoria Faculty of Law in Victoria, Maneesha, It’s time to abandon the idea of human rights", The Scavenger, dec 10 http://www.thescavenger.net/animals/its-time-to-abandon-the-idea-of-human-rights-77234-536.html-http://www.thescavenger.net/animals/its-time-to-abandon-the-idea-of-human-rights-77234-536.html)
The resonance of the subhuman figure may also be found in western jurisprudence relating to
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like practices, the subhuman figure is critical to producing violence against humans.

Tournament: IHSA State | Round: 3 | Opponent: OPRF JK | Judge: Katie Gjerpen, Ian Makos
They didnt disclose so I'll do it for them - Email me for the full 1AC

Tournament: GMNDC | Round: 2 | Opponent: Mukwonago MZ | Judge: Matthew Fahrenbacher
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Tournament: Harvard | Round: Doubles | Opponent: ACORN AJ | Judge: Hirn, Lanning, McCarty
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Tournament: St Marks Hoe Down | Round: 2 | Opponent: Coppell LM | Judge: Sedelmyer, Ranganathan

Privatization CP 1NC

The United States federal government should allow the United States Customs and Border Protection to accept reimbursement from sources other than Congress.  The United States federal government should request that the states, local governments, and private sector increase cooperative investment in land ports of entry with Mexico

Border modernization can be achieved by requesting funding from state and local government and the private sector

Lee and Wilson 2012 (Erik Lee serves as Associate Director at the North American Center for Transborder Studies (NACTS) at Arizona State University. Christopher E. Wilson is an Associate at the Mexico Institute of the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars. "The State of Trade, Competitiveness and Economic Well-being in the U.S.-Mexico Border Region" http://www.wilsoncenter.org/sites/default/files/State_of_Border_Trade_Economy_0.pdf)
Given the fact that POE improvements offer significant and tangible monetary benefits to border communities
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above, additional staffing is and will be increasingly necessary as trade increases. 

Federal infrastructure investment is manipulated by project managers who cook the data to win project approval – exaggerates aff benefits and causes massive cost overruns

Flyvbjerg, 10 – Professor of Major Programme Management at Oxford University-http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oxford_University~’s Saïd Business School-http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SaC3AFd_Business_School and is Founding Director of the University’s BT Centre for Major Programme Management. He was previously Professor of Planning at Aalborg University-http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aalborg_University, Denmark-http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Denmark and Chair of Infrastructure Policy and Planning at Delft University of Technology-http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Delft_University_of_Technology, The Netherlands (Bent, "Survival of the un?ttest: why the worst infrastructure gets built—and what we can do about it," Oxford Review of Economic Policy, Volume 25, Number 3, 2009, pp.344–367, Oxford Journals Online)
This situation may need some explication, because it may sound to many like an
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signi?cant social and environmental impacts, as is common with major infrastructure projects.

Data cooking creates economic disasters – the worst projects are approved, and necessary infrastructure loses out – this turns the case

Flyvbjerg, 10 – Professor of Major Programme Management at Oxford University-http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oxford_University~’s Saïd Business School-http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SaC3AFd_Business_School and is Founding Director of the University’s BT Centre for Major Programme Management. He was previously Professor of Planning at Aalborg University-http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aalborg_University, Denmark-http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Denmark and Chair of Infrastructure Policy and Planning at Delft University of Technology-http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Delft_University_of_Technology, The Netherlands (Bent, "Survival of the un?ttest: why the worst infrastructure gets built—and what we can do about it," Oxford Review of Economic Policy, Volume 25, Number 3, 2009, pp.344–367, Oxford Journals Online)
In sum, the UK study shows that strong interests and strong incentives exist at
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. They have been designed like that, as disasters waiting to happen.

Tournament: IHSA State | Round: 1 | Opponent: Niles West NP | Judge: Greg Friend, Shabaka Verna
Later

Tournament: Niles North | Round: 4 | Opponent: Maine East GS | Judge: Dave Watson

Saudi Arabian Tradeoff DA

Saudi Arabia has not yet acquired the bomb—perception of US support is the key factor

Guzansky 13 – Yoel Guzansky is a fellow at the Institute for National Security Studies, Tel Aviv University. His main research area is Gulf security. He has also served as Iran coordinator at Israel’s National Security Council. His recent publications include The Gulf States in a Changing Strategic Environment (2012), One Year of the Arab Spring: Global and Regional Implications, and The Gulf States: Between Iran and the West – Middle East Quarterly Spring 2013, pp. 59-64 – available at: http://www.meforum.org/3512/saudi-arabia-pakistan-nuclear-weapon
Continued Iranian progress toward a nuclear weapon, Iraq’s increasing alignment with Tehran, and
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, to reduce risks and ensure the continuity of the House of Saud.

The plan trades off with oil from the Middle East—that’s the 1AC Oil Dependence claim—also in CX they gave Saudi Arabia as an example of a country that the aff would reduce oil dependence on

Saudi Arabia fears the narrative that the US may abandon them for North American supplies

Rogers 3/20
2013 – Will Rogers is the Bacevich Fellow at the Center for a New American Security (CNAS). At CNAS, Mr. Rogers’ research focus is on science, technology and national security policy. He has authored or co-authored a range of publications on energy, climate change, environmental cooperation in Asia and cybersecurity, and#34;America Committed to Gulf Security Despite Changing Relationship with Region’s Oil, says Gen. Dempsey,and#34; Center for New American Security, 2013, http://www.cnas.org/blogs/naturalsecurity/2013/03/america-committed-gulf-security-despite-changing-relationship-regions-
America’s relationship with the Middle East’s energy resources is changing as U.S.
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- will have to be managed carefully. What a tightrope to walk.

Saudi prolif causes nuclear war

Edelman 11 – (Eric –Distinguished Fellow at the Center for Strategic and Budgetary Assessments 26 Former U.S. Undersecretary of Defense for Policy, Foreign Affairs, Jan/Feb, http://www.foreignaffairs.com/articles/67162/eric-s-edelman-andrew-f-krepinevich-jr-and-evan-braden-montgomer/the-dangers-of-a-nuclear-iran)
There is, however, at least one state that could receive significant outside support
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Middle East could lead to a new Great Game, with unpredictable consequences.

Tournament: Blake | Round: 2 | Opponent: Edina RS | Judge: Courtney Schauer
Contemporary radical Western criticism is the product of a desire to preserve the singularity of the Western intellectual as Subject.  The subaltern becomes the epistemological backdrop against which the dramas of bourgeois subjectivity are played out.  They start from the point of enlightened knowledge about the unenlightened Other, presumptuously assuming that if the subaltern were here, speaking, they would be on-board with the movement.  Even if the subaltern could speak, the performance of the affirmative would already have torn out their vocal cords.
Spivak 88 (Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak, Indian literary theorist, philosopher and University Professor at Columbia University, Marxism and the Interpretation of Culture, 1988 "Can the Subaltern Speak?," Online, azp)
SOME OF THE most radical criticism coming out of the West today is the result
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supplementing an earlier economic text, can the subaltern speak? . . . 

This act of surveillance contributes to the violent disempowerment of the subaltern – their attempt to render the Other intelligible is just a way to fill in the blindspots in our military map of alterity – the result is that we can only ever see the people they debate about as targets for US bombs.
Chow 06 (Rey Chow, Humanities and Modern Culture 26 Media Studies at Brown University, 2006 The Age of the World Target: Self-Referentiality in War, Theory, and Comparative Work, 40-1)
Often under the modest apparently innocuous agendas of fact gathering and documentation, the "
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a definable object"—and by "the problem of the vanishing object."

The alternative is a refusal to know - an endorsement of our specific intellectual criticism makes challenging the neutrality of the affirmative’s power relationships possible – only the alt solves the root cause of their harms
Edkins 06 (Jenny Edkins, International Politics, University of Wales, Aberystwyth, 2006 "The Local, the Global and the Troubling," Critical Review of International Social and Political Philosophy Vol. 9, No. 4, 499–511)
Rather than starting with a reading of traditional academic analyses of the Northern Ireland conflict
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effect, but through a slow re-building, brick by brick.

Tournament: HoFlo | Round: 3 | Opponent: Niles West NP | Judge: Chris Carey
Steel glut now
Trefis ’13
~Trefis. Stock Market Investment Firm. "U.S. Steel Expected To Report Soft Earnings On Lower Demand And Prices" 4/26/13 http://www.trefis.com/stock/x/articles/182951/u-s-steel-expected-to-report-soft-earnings-on-lower-demand-and-prices/2013-04-26-http://www.trefis.com/stock/x/articles/182951/u-s-steel-expected-to-report-soft-earnings-on-lower-demand-and-prices/2013-04-26 GBS-JV~
U.S. Steel (NYSE:X) will announce its first quarter
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is down by 7 from the previous year’s levels. ~2~
Infrastructure projects require massive quantities of steel – reverses the glut
Corpac ’13
~Corpac Steel. " Infrastructure Projects Worldwide Depend on Steel Manufacture and Delivery "  4/24/13 http://corpacsteel.blogspot.com/2013/04/infrastructure-projects-worldwide.html-http://corpacsteel.blogspot.com/2013/04/infrastructure-projects-worldwide.html GBS-JV~
Rail and highway infrastructure projects require massive quantities of steel, and often these products must be "last mile" delivered in challenging conditions. After all, these projects may bring transportation networks to places they’ve never been before. Choosing a steel supplier with extensive logistics experience is critical to ensuring that projects proceed on schedule and within budgets. Not only must the product be right, the delivery has to be right as well.
Key to robust shipbuilding
SSN 11-7
~The Sino Ship News. "Depression in steel industry will stimulate shipbuilding industry – Mr Wang" SSN, 11/7/13 http://logistic.steelguru.com/global/517/depression_in_steel_industry_will_stimulate_shipbuilding_industry_mr_wang-http://logistic.steelguru.com/global/517/depression_in_steel_industry_will_stimulate_shipbuilding_industry_mr_wang GBS-JV~
The depression in the steel industry still continues, Mr Wang Yingsheng, Director of
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, however, the low steel prices will greatly stimulate the shipbuilding industry.
Vital internal link to naval power – steel affects every sector
NLUS ’12
(Navy League of the United States, Since 1902, the NLUS has sought to provide a stronger sea voice to Congress and to the American people, "America’s Maritime Industry: the foundation of American seapower.", May 2012 http://www.navyleague.org/files/americas-maritime-industry.pdf-http://www.navyleague.org/files/americas-maritime-industry.pdf)  
The American Maritime Industry also contributes to our national defense by sustaining the shipbuilding and
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shipyard labor are key elements in maintaining U.S. maritime superiority.
Existential threat
England et al. ’11
(Gordon England is a former secretary of the Navy. General James Jones is a former commandant of the Marine Corps. Admiral Vern Clark is a former chief of naval operations; "The Necessity of U.S. Naval Power," July 11, http://gcaptain.com/necessity-u-s-naval-power?27784)
The future security environment underscores two broad security trends. First, international political realities
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is exactly what we will need to meet the challenges of the future.

Tournament: Niles North | Round: Quarters | Opponent: Groves CP | Judge: Gobberdiel, Peter, Pipkin

T-EE 1NC

Engagement is the attempt to influence the political behavior of a state by increasing contacts with that state – economic engagement means using exclusively economic contacts like trade, loans and grants

Resnik 1 – Assistant Professor of Political Science at Yeshiva University (Evan, Journal of International Affairs, and#34;Defining Engagementantand#34; v54, n2, political science complete)
A REFINED DEFINITION OF ENGAGEMENT
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permits the elucidation of multiple types of positive sanctions.

Tournament: Niles North | Round: Quarters | Opponent: Groves CP | Judge: Gobberdiel, Peter, Pipkin

T-Positive 1NC

Engagement requires offering positive incentives – the plan reduces economic enagegement by terminating the lease of Guantánamo Bay

Haass and O’Sullivan 2k - Haass is the Vice President and Director of Foreign Policy Studies at the Brookings Institution, and Oand#39;Sullivan is a Fellow with the Foreign Policy Studies Program at the Brookings Institution (Richard and Meghan, and#39;Terms of Engagement: Alternatives to Punitive Policiesand#39; Survival, vol. 42, no. 2, Summer 2000, http://www.brookings.edu/~~/media/research/files/articles/2000/6/summer20haass/2000survival.pdf-
The term ’engagement’ was popularised in the early 1980s amid controversy about the Reagan
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to shape the behaviour of countries with which the US has important disagreements.

Tournament: HoFlo | Round: 2 | Opponent: New Trier BX | Judge: Vicky Stavropolous
Later or email

Tournament: Michigan | Round: 4 | Opponent: Pace DL | Judge: Michael McGrath

Text: The United States Department of State should expand the mission of Southern Command to include the sharing of information regarding human trafficking, assisting in the enhancement of regional security capacities, and providing the Department of State with increased intelligence regarding human trafficking.  Southern Command should use its counter-narcotics strategy as a blueprint for these changes.

Solvency advocate

Brown ’11
~US Army Major Phillip, Masters from the School of Advanced Military Studies at the US Army Command and General Staff College. "USSOCOM’s Role in Addressing Human Trafficking" 2011 www.dtic.mil/cgi-bin/GetTRDoc?AD=ADA536470GBS-JV~
The final section focuses on the implications of the analysis and the specific actions that
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a US Government strategic framework for counter-HT and promote regional stability.

Solves the aff

Brown ’11
~US Army Major Phillip, Masters from the School of Advanced Military Studies at the US Army Command and General Staff College. "USSOCOM’s Role in Addressing Human Trafficking" 2011 www.dtic.mil/cgi-bin/GetTRDoc?AD=ADA536470GBS-JV~
When determining a methodology to support a claim that USSOCOM should augment existing US Government
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regional stability, in concert with USSOCOM’s larger efforts to counter VEOs globally.

Tournament: Evanston | Round: 2 | Opponent: GBN DF | Judge: I dont remember 3

The plan is a concession to Venezuela and the rest of the Bolivarian Revolution—spills over and destabilizes every global hotspot

Farah 12 – ~Doug. Senior Fellow at the Intl Assessment and Strategy Center.  President of IBI Consultants. "Transnational Organized Crime, Terrorism, and Criminalized States in Latin America: An Emerging Tier-One National Security Priority" 2012, Strategic Studies Institute Publication. http://www.strategicstudiesinstitute.army.mil/pubs/display.cfm?pubID=1117//GBS-JV~~
Latin America, while not generally viewed as part of the stateless regions phenomenon,
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behavior relates to geographic space—must always be rooted in the local.

That causes India-China-Pakistan war

Coes 11 – (Ben Coes, former speechwriter in the George H.W. Bush administration, managed Mitt Romney’s successful campaign for Massachusetts Governor in 2002, The Daily Caller, September 30 2011, The disease of a weak president, http://dailycaller.com/2011/09/30/the-disease-of-a-weak-president/2/-http://dailycaller.com/2011/09/30/the-disease-of-a-weak-president/2/, PS)
The attention of the world has been riveted to Israel, Palestine and Iran in
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one or the other. The status quo is simply not an option.

Extinction

Kahn ’9
~Jer. "Why India fears China" Newsweek, 10/19/9 lexis~
On June 21, two Chinese military helicopters swooped low over Demchok, a tiny
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of Taiwan, or as a mediator trying to separate the two sides.