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Niles North | 1 | Maine East | Meghan Maloy |
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Evanston | 2 | Opponent: New Trier LD | Judge: Tim Brnzy 1nc Death Cult Iran Politics Security K and Cuba Overheat |
IDCA State | 1 | Opponent: Niles West GH | Judge: Katie Klante 1ac embargo (Trans AGNo war) |
MSU | 2 | Opponent: Traverse City CT | Judge: Quinn Zimmel 1AC Embargo 1NC OAS CP Politics DA Appeasement DA case turns 2NR Politics and case turns |
MSU | 3 | Opponent: GBN CT | Judge: Pablo Gannon 1AC Embargo |
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1ACTournament: Niles North | Round: 1 | Opponent: Maine East | Judge: Meghan Maloy U.S. economy to decline in 2013 – decline in consumer spending, unemployment, and revision of GDP data Reforms are insufficient – private investment is needed There are three internal links – First is trade cooperation – opening up the Gulf to increased development spurs bi-lateral economic cooperation and stimulates the U.S. economy Second is domestic development – energy development in the Gulf is key to the economy by creating jobs, lowering energy prices, increasing domestic supply, generating federal revenue, and expanding exploration Third, PEMEX is declining - fields are being used up – deep water drilling and private investment from TBA is needed to diversify Mexico’s portfolio. Reforms are critical Economic collapse leads to war Growth Solves 1AC – Relations US-Mexico relations are at a pivotal point --- failure to ratify the THA erodes trust and collapses Mexican relations It’s the key issue --- energy is leads to broader cooperation There are two scenarios, First is nuclear terrorism The impact is an attack on US soil Nuclear war Air power is key to check multiple scenarios of extinction Plan: The United States Federal Government should pass the Outer Continental Shelf Transboundary Hydrocarbon Agreement Authorization Act outlined in the House of Representatives bill 1613. 1AC – Solvency Now is the key time – failure to adopt new regulatory model will trigger disastrous decline Tech assistance and regulatory co-op solves relations and economy Now is the time to lock in bilateral framework for energy cooperation | 9/30/13 |
1AC EmbargoTournament: MSU | Round: 2 | Opponent: Traverse City CT | Judge: Quinn Zimmel Plan: The United States federal government should normalize its trade relations with Cuba.1AC transition Advantage 1 is the Transition Cuban reforms are inevitable but the loss of external investment risks economic and social collapse – offering normal trade relations is vitalAshby 13, Senior Research Fellow at the Council on Hemispheric Affairs. He served in the U.S. Commerce Department’s International Trade Administration as Director of the Office of Mexico and the Caribbean and acting Deputy Assistant Secretary of Commerce for the Western Hemisphere(Timothy, "Preserving Stability in Cuba After Normalizing Relations with the United States – The Importance of Trading with State-Owned Enterprises" 3/29/13, Council on Hemispheric Affairs, http://www.coha.org/preserving-stability-in-cuba-timothy-ashby/)//AD Failure of economic reform causes civil warLopez-Levy 11 – PhD candidate at Josef Korbel School of International Studies, coauthor of "Raul Castro and the New Cuba" (Arturo, New America Foundation, May 2011, http://newamerica.net/sites/newamerica.net/files/policydocs/naf_all_cuba_reform_final.pdf-http://newamerica.net/sites/newamerica.net/files/policydocs/naf_all_cuba_reform_final.pdf)//EK Economic liberalization will force political reform to accommodateLopez-Levy 13 – PhD candidate at Josef Korbel School of International Studies, coauthor of "Raul Castro and the New Cuba" (Arturo, The National Interest, April 10, 2013, http://nationalinterest.org/commentary/getting-ready-post-castro-cuba-8316-http://nationalinterest.org/commentary/getting-ready-post-castro-cuba-8316)//EK Removing sanctions and allowing greater engagement makes the democratization process stableLopez-Levy 11 – PhD candidate at Josef Korbel School of International Studies, coauthor of "Raul Castro and the New Cuba" (Arturo, New America Foundation, May 2011, http://newamerica.net/sites/newamerica.net/files/policydocs/naf_all_cuba_reform_final.pdf-http://newamerica.net/sites/newamerica.net/files/policydocs/naf_all_cuba_reform_final.pdf)//EK Cuban collapse destroys the global war on terror and makes conflicts in hotspots around the globe more likelyGorrell, 5 - Lieutenant Colonel, US Army, paper submitted for the USAWC STRATEGY RESEARCH PROJECT (Tim, "CUBA: THE NEXT UNANTICIPATED ANTICIPATED STRATEGIC CRISIS?" http://www.dtic.mil/cgi-bin/GetTRDoc?AD=ADA433074-http://www.dtic.mil/cgi-bin/GetTRDoc?AD=ADA433074 GWOT=Global War on Terrorism Hotspots all risk escalation to global nuclear warBosco 2006 (a senior editor at Foreign Policy magazine, David, July 2006, "Forum: Keeping an eye peeled for World War III" http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/06211/709477-109.stm_-http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/06211/709477-109.stm_) Independently, enforcing the embargo itself undermines the war on terrorJohnson, et al, 10 – Andy Johnson is a director in the national security program at The Third Way ("End the Embargo of Cuba", The National Security Program, 9/6/10, http://content.thirdway.org/publications/326/Third_Way_Memo_-_End_the_Embargo_of_Cuba.pdf)//EX-http://content.thirdway.org/publications/326/Third_Way_Memo_-_End_the_Embargo_of_Cuba.pdf)//EX A Cuban crisis will collapse the war on terror – economic engagement solvesGorrell, 5 - Lieutenant Colonel, US Army, paper submitted for the USAWC STRATEGY RESEARCH PROJECT (Tim, "CUBA: THE NEXT UNANTICIPATED ANTICIPATED STRATEGIC CRISIS?" http://www.dtic.mil/cgi-bin/GetTRDoc?AD=ADA433074-http://www.dtic.mil/cgi-bin/GetTRDoc?AD=ADA433074 GWOT=Global War on Terrorism The growth of nuclear power and lack of effective security make Latin America key to trafficking and nuclear weapons accessSanchez 10 – W. Alejandro "Alex" Sánchez Nieto is a Research Fellow at the Council on Hemispheric Affairs (COHA) where he focuses on geopolitics and security issues. Sanchez holds a Master’s degree in International Peace and Conflict Resolution from the School of International Service at American University and has attended the Institute of World Politics, Johns Hopkins’ School of Advanced International Studies, as well as universities in Austria, Belgium and France. His analyses have appeared in journals including Small Wars and Insurgencies, Defence Studies, the Journal of Slavic Military Studies, European Security, Studies in Conflict and Terrorism and Cuban Affairs. ("Nuclear Security Issues in Latin America and the Caribbean Under the Radar", January 11th, 2010, http://www.thecuttingedgenews.com/index.php?article=11902) Greater focus and resources to counter-terrorism is vital – WMD terrorism risks are increasingClark, 13 - Bruce Clarke is a retired Army Colonel with extensive strategic, operational and tactical experience. He is widely published on a myriad of strategic and operational subjects. Immediately prior to his retirement from the Army, Colonel Clarke was the Director of US National Security Studies at the US Army War College (Bruce, The Examiner, " The end to the war on terrorism—really?" 5/28, http://www.examiner.com/article/the-end-to-the-war-on-terrorism-really-http://www.examiner.com/article/the-end-to-the-war-on-terrorism-really)\ This risks extinctionFollow yellow Advantage 2 is Multilateralism US leadership is unsustainable without a highly visible commitment to multilateralismLake, 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/LakeMakingAmericaSafe.pdf-http://dss.ucsd.edu/~dlake/documents/LakeMakingAmericaSafe.pdf)//NG The plan is a powerful symbol of that commitmentBurgsdorff, 9 – Ph. D in Political Science from Freiburg University, EU Fellow at the University of Miami (Sven Kühn von, "Problems and Opportunities for the Incoming Obama Administration", http://aei.pitt.edu.proxy.lib.umich.edu/11047/1/vonBurgsdorfUSvsCubalong09edi.pdf-http://aei.pitt.edu.proxy.lib.umich.edu/11047/1/vonBurgsdorfUSvsCubalong09edi.pdf)//NG The embargo is straining any efforts to have successful multilateral institutionsWilliams, 9 – (Erasmus, "St. Kitts and Nevis votes to end Cuba embargo", 30 October, 2009, http://m.sknvibes.com/news/newsdetails.cfm/11840-http://m.sknvibes.com/news/newsdetails.cfm/11840) The alternative to multilateralism is unilateral militarism – the plan establishes a model for hemispheric diplomacy that sustains US leadershipGrandin 10 – teaches history at New York University and is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (Greg, "Empire’s Senescence: U.S. Policy in Latin America," New Labor Forum, 19:1, Winter 2010, pg. 14-23)SJF The plan creates a credible model for multilateral conflict resolutionDickerson 10 – Lieutenant Colonel, US Army, paper submitted in fulfillment of a Master of Strategic Studies Degree at the US Army War College (Sergio M, "UNITED STATES SECURITY STRATEGY TOWARDS CUBA," 1/14/10, http://www.dtic.mil/dtic/tr/fulltext/u2/a518053.pdf)//SJF This diplomatic approach prevents conflict escalation. Only the AFF can access I/L to stopping incentives for warWright 10 – Executive director of studies at The Chicago Council on Global Affairs (Thomas, "Strategic Engagement’s Track Record," The Washington Quarterly)NG Reliance on unilateralism will collapse US leadership and cause global wars with weapons of mass destructionMontalván, 10 - a 17-year veteran of the U.S. Army including multiple combat tours in Iraq, master’s of science from Columbia University’s Graduate School of Journalism (Luis, "Multilateralism is Essential for Peace in the 21st Century" Huffington Post, 4/23, http://www.huffingtonpost.com/luis-carlos-montalvan/multilateralism-is-essent_b_550332.html-http://www.huffingtonpost.com/luis-carlos-montalvan/multilateralism-is-essent_b_550332.html) Multilateralism prevents nuclear war with rising Asian powers- unilat - mil backlash b/c Asian powers want to rise 1ACContinued embargo empowers Cuban repression against its own people, promoting inequality and disposability. Human rights is a decision ruleCSG ’13 (Cuba Study Group, Restoring Executive Authority Over U.S. Policy Toward Cuba February 2013, http://www.cubastudygroup.org/index.cfm/files/serve?File_id=45d8f827-174c-4d43-aa2f-ef7794831032) Helms-Burton has failed to advance the cause of freedom and prosperity for the Lifting the embargo would solve US-Latin American multilateralismPascual and Huddleston 09 - Carlos Pascual is a Cuban-American diplomat and the former U.S. Ambassador to Mexico and Ukraine. Vicki Huddleston is a U.S. diplomat. ("CUBA: A New Policy of Critical and Constructive Engagement", Foreign Policy at Brookings, April 2009) MCallahan The embargo is the symbol of America’s attempt to democratize – accepting political diversity now through Cuba is key to successful reform of American policyRatliff, 2013 (William, research fellow and former curator of the Americas Collection at the Hoover Institution, he is also a research fellow of the Independent Institute, an expert on Latin America, China, and US foreign policy, "Cuba’s Tortured Transition", 1/30/2013, http://www.hoover.org/publications/defining-ideas/article/1392810) No alt causes to multilatHaass, 2009 (Richard N. Haas, President, Council on Foreign Relations Expertise in U.S. foreign policy; international security; globalization; Asia; Middle East , "Forget About Fidel", The Daily Beast, 03/06/2009, http://www.thedailybeast.com/newsweek/2009/03/06/forget-about-fidel.html) Removing the embargo is key to reengagement with Latin AmericaGerz-Escandon 08 - Jennifer, Ph.D., International Relations and former professor of political science at Lynn University, October 9, ’8, "End the US-Cuba embargo: It’s a win-win," Christian Science Monitor, http://www.csmonitor.com/Commentary/Opinion/2008/1009/p09s02-coop.html-http://www.csmonitor.com/Commentary/Opinion/2008/1009/p09s02-coop.html | 12/7/13 |
1ac Embargo No WarTournament: Evanston | Round: 2 | Opponent: New Trier LD | Judge: Tim Brnzy More moderate approaches comparatively fail to stabilize Cuba Continued embargo empowers Cuban repression against its own people, promoting inequality and disposability | 1/31/14 |
Extra 1ac cardsTournament: IDCA State | Round: 1 | Opponent: Niles West GH | Judge: Katie Klante These reps are key to solve the case On Ag Too much CO2 is worse | 3/14/14 |
Racism Add-onTournament: IDCA State | Round: 1 | Opponent: Niles West GH | Judge: Katie Klante | 3/14/14 |
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