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Tournament: IDCA State | Round: 4 | Opponent: GBN CT | Judge:
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

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

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

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

Tournament: Indiana | Round: 5 | Opponent: Park City Central | Judge:
The 1AC is hostage-taking - It is only the attempt to know the other from the self that creates a dualism and the condition for oppression.
BAUDRILLARD 1993 - Transparency of Evil, pg. 127-129

Each possibility their advocacy contains is part of a symbolic space – a universe of signifiers that can be constructed into a visible outcomes.  Attempting to make that function coopts their existence and meaning.
BAUDRILLARD 2010 - Carnival and Cannibal; Ventriloquous Evil, p. 70-73

This allows them to put the lives they attempt to save up for hostage, operating through a process of emotional blackmail that ultimately loses the other in simulation, an abolishment worse than death.
BAUDRILLARD 1992 - The Illusion of the End

Voting neg on this argument constitutes a refusal of the demand of constituting ourselves as subjects of the political. When the masses do nothing, we can be liberated.
BAUDRILLARD 1981 - Simulacra and Simulation, p. 84-86

Tournament: Indiana | Round: 5 | Opponent: Park City Central | Judge:
Jake and I advocate we play the game of life in a discussion about substantially increasing economic engagement towards Cuba, Mexico, and/or Venezuela.

We should win
Patel 14 (1/18/14)

Tournament: Evanston | Round: 1 | Opponent: GBN LN | Judge: Eric Baker
Text: The People’s Republic of China should _

China solves the case- provides a unique model for engagement in Latin America
Lengauer 11 Sara, Bond University, “China's foreign aid policy: Motive and method” http://epublications.bond.edu.au/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1126andcontext=cm 9/1

Tournament: IDCA State | Round: 2 | Opponent: New Trier GT | Judge: Nate Sawyer
The U.S. is declining and China’s taking their place
Mallen 13
Patricia Rey, International Buisness Times “Latin America Increases Relations With China: What Does That Mean For The US?” http://www.ibtimes.com/latin-america-increases-relations-china-what-does-mean-us-1317981 June 28 

Influence in Cuba key to China’s overall Latin American agenda.
Hearn 9. Adrian, Senior Research Fellow at the University of Sydney, and Kiriyama Research Fellow at the University of San Francisco Center for the Pacific Rim, "China's relations with Mexico and Cuba: A Study of Contrasts" Pacific Rim Report -- No 52 -- January -- usf.usfca.edu/pac_rim/new/research/pacrimreport/pacrimreport52.html

US influence in Latin America directly trades off with Chinese influence
Ellis  12
Dr. R. Evan Ellis is a professor of national security studies, modeling, gaming, and simulation with the Center for Hemispheric Defense Studies, with a research focus on Latin America’s relationships with external actors, including China, Russia, and Iran. holds a Ph.D. in political science with a specialization in comparative politics. May 2012- The Inter-American Dialogue - “The United States, ¶ Latin America and China: ¶ A “Triangular Relationship”?” http://www.thedialogue.org/PublicationFiles/IAD8661_China_Triangular0424v2e-may.pdf

China’s influence in Latin America is key to their soft power
Malik, 06 – PhD in International Relations (Mohan, "China's Growing Involvement in Latin America," 6/12, http://uyghuramerican.org/old/articles/300/1/info@uyghuramerican.org)

Chinese international influence is an existential impact – it controls every scenario for extinction
Zhang 2012 (Prof of Diplomacy and IR at the Geneva School of Diplomacy. “The Rise of China’s Political Softpower” 9/4/12 http://www.china.org.cn/opinion/2012-09/04/content_26421330.htm)

Tournament: Evanston | Round: 5 | Opponent: SPASH KP | Judge: Kim Pressling
The United States federal government should normalize trade relations if and only if the governments of a majority of Latin American nations commit to actively seeking a naturalization process between the United States and Cuba, and to compelling the Cuban government to work towards establishing representative democracy and better respect for human rights.

Counterplan solves the case---Latin American governments will say yes---it triggers Cuban reform that avoids a Vietnamese model during the transition---and it avoids politics
Castañeda 9 - Jorge G. Castañeda, professor at New York University and fellow at the New America Foundation, was Mexico's foreign minister from 2000 to 2003, April 21, 2009, “The Right Deal on Cuba,” online: http://online.wsj.com/article/SB124027198023237151.html

Tournament: IDCA State | Round: 4 | Opponent: GBN CT | Judge:
Text: The Republic of Indonesia should exempt nickel ore from their ban on mineral exports.
Solves nickel prices – and Indonesia has already exempted other metals like copper
Younglai 1/17 RACHELLE YOUNGLAI - MINING REPORTER
The Globe and Mail"Canadian nickel producers hope to benefit from Indonesia’s export ban” 1/17/13 http://www.theglobeandmail.com/report-on-business/industry-news/energy-and-resources/canadian-nickel-producers-hope-to-benefit-from-indonesias-export-ban/article16373094/crk

Tournament: MSU | Round: 1 | Opponent: Okemos YZ | Judge: Will Repko
Obama’s holding the line on Iran – but there’s bipartisan pressure for a new round of sanctions
AFP 12-4
The Agence France Presse. “Obama warns Congress on new Iran sanctions” 12/4/13 lnGBS-JV

Engagement with Mexico sparks backlash – Congress doesn’t trust Mexico
AP ‘13
(5/2/13, Associated Press, “Obama to Pitch Immigration Overhaul in Mexico” http://www.newsmaxworld.com/Newsfront/obama-immigration-mexico-trip/2013/05/02/id/502393)

Political capital’s key – Congress has to buy in to Obama’s diplomatic approach
Takeyh 12-2
Ray. Iran Expert at CFR. “How Obama Can Win Over Congress on the Iran Deal” Politico, 12/2/13 lnGBS-JV

Some Iranian nuclearization’s inevitable, but the sanctions make it unsustainable and rogue
Stephens 11/14 – Phillip is a columnist for the Financial Times. (“The four big truths that are shaping the Iran talks”, Financial Times, http://www.ft.com/intl/cms/s/0/af170df6-4d1c-11e3-bf32-00144feabdc0.html#axzz2kkvx15JT)

Nuclear war
Goldberg 2012 – Jeffrey Goldberg is a Bloomberg View columnist and a national correspondent for the Atlantic. (“How Iran Could Trigger Accidental Armaggedon”, 1/24/2012, http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2012-01-24/how-iran-may-trigger-accidental-armageddon-commentary-by-jeffrey-goldberg.html)

Tournament: Evanston | Round: 4 | Opponent: GBN CT | Judge:
No NAFTA expansion since FTA with Colombia
Aguando 12 Mar Guinot Aguado, Updated by J.T. Larrimore, Research Associates at the Council on Hemispheric Affairs “LESSONS NOT LEARNED FROM THE PAST: UNITED STATES-COLOMBIA FREE TRADE AGREEMENT AT STAKE” 11/16/12 http://www.coha.org/lessons-not-learned-from-the-past-u-s-colombia-fta-at-stake/crk 

NAFTA has destroyed small farms in Mexico
PC 2013 The mission of Public Citizen’s Global Trade Watch is to ensure that in this era of globalization, a majority have the opportunity to enjoy America's promises: economic security, a clean environment, safe food, medicines and products, access to quality affordable services such as health care and the exercise of democratic decision-making about the matters that affect their lives. “NAFTA’s Broken Promises 1994-2013:
Outcomes of the North American Free Trade Agreement” 2013 http://www.citizen.org/documents/NAFTAs-Broken-Promises.pdf

Small farms are key to food security—Latin America is key
Altieri  8 Miguel Altierei Professor of Agro ecology at the Department¶ of Environmental Science, Policy and Management at the University of¶ California, Berkeley since 1981. He is a member of the Steering¶ Committee of the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization¶ (FAO)’s Globally Important Agricultural Heritage Systems (GIAHS)¶ programmer, whose goal is to dynamically conserve the world’s remaining¶ traditional farming systems. He is also President of the Latin American¶ Scientific Society of Agro ecology (SOCLA) and Coordinator of the¶ International Agro ecology Program of the Center for the Study of the¶ Americas in Berkeley. He periodically lectures at universities in the USA,¶ Latin America and Europe, and provides technical expertise to¶ international organizations as well as farmers’ organizations and nongovernmental organizations throughout the world. He is the author of 12¶ books, including Agro ecology: The Science of Sustainable Agriculture¶ and Biodiversity and Pest Management in Agro ecosystems, as well as¶ more than 250 scientific journal articles “Small Farms as a Planetary Ecological¶ Asset: Five Key Reasons Why We Should¶ Support the Revitalisation of Small¶ Farms in the Global South” http://agroeco.org/wp-content/uploads/2010/11/smallfarmes-ecolasset.pdf
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Food insecurity causes war
Brown 11 Lester R. Brown 2011 Writer for the Earth Policy Institute “World on the Edge: How to prevent Environmental and Economic Collapse” http://www.earth-policy.org/images/uploads/book_files/wotebook.pdf

Tournament: Maine East | Round: 4 | Opponent: Homewood Flossmoor KS | Judge: Tim Brzny
Movements against neoliberalism are growing and strong in Latin America and spill over globally - but the plans insistence on US led economic cooperation and integration reifies neoliberalism’s hegemonic grasp - instead of economic engagement, there must be a de-linking to preserve the environment and indigenous culture’s survival. Ethics require we don’t ask what we can do for the US but ask what’s best for people living in Latin America.  
HARRIS 8 (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 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)

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

Tournament: Evanston | Round: 1 | Opponent: GBN LN | Judge: Eric Baker
Latin American engagement is a means for the US to accomplish its imperial objectives
Young 11 -- political organizer for Organization for a Free Society and PhD candidate in history at Stony Brook University (Kevin, 1/13/2011, "Two, Three, Many Colombias: The Logic and Consequences of the US Vision for Latin America," http://www.zcommunications.org/two-three-many-colombias-by-kevin-young)

Security politics cause global destruction
Der Derian 98 (James, Professor of Political Science – University of Massachusetts, On Security, Ed. Lipschutz, p. 24-25)

The alternative is to reject dominant security discourse – no one policy solves every problem – good theory now drives better policies later
Bruce and Cheeseman 96 (Robert, Associate Professor in Social Science – Curtin University and Graeme Cheeseman, Senior Lecturer – University of New South Wales, Discourses of Danger and Dread Frontiers, p. 5-9)

Tournament: Evanston | Round: 4 | Opponent: GBN CT | Judge:
Text: The 50 state governments should substantially increase its transportation border infrastructure to Mexico

States key to solve – can’t wait for the federal government – AZ and TX prove
Uribe 12 (Monica, Reporter for Fronteras, “NAFTA's promise slowed by lack of border infrastructure,” http://www.marketplace.org/topics/world/naftas-promise-slowed-lack-border-infrastructure)

Tournament: Niles Township Invitational | Round: 6 | Opponent: Dowling Catholic KW | Judge: Warren Sprouse
A. Interpretation - 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, “Defining Engagement” v54, n2, political science complete)

B. Violation – the affirmative uses non-economic instruments
C. Voting issue – 

1. limits – they explode the topic – blurring the lines between economic and other forms of engagement makes any positive interaction with another country topical.  It’s impossible to predict or prepare
   2. negative ground – the economic limit is vital to critiques of economics, trade disads, and non-economic counterplans

Tournament: MSU | Round: 4 | Opponent: HH Dow KC | Judge:
A. Interpretation –“Increase” means “to make greater as in number” that’s a quote from dictionary.com
Dictionary.com – Based on the Random House Dictionary, Random House, Inc. 2010., "Increase," http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/increase

in•crease?v. in-krees; n. in-krees  Show IPA verb, -creased, -creas•ing, noun
–verb (used with object)
1.to make greater, as in number, size, strength, or quality; augment; add to: to increase taxes.

B. Violation – the aff just removes the embargo – it doesn’t net increase economic engagement. 

C. Voting issue
First is Limits: They explode the topic because they can do economic engagement but not increase--- there can me millions of affs that do that then
Second is Ground: they hurt neg ground--- they limit us to DAs and CPs, they can say no link, we don’t increase

Tournament: Indiana | Round: 5 | Opponent: Park City Central | Judge:
A. Interpretation: Toward means ‘in the direction of’
American Heritage, 9 (‘toward’, http://education.yahoo.com/reference/dictionary/entry/toward)

B. Violation: they do not do economic engagement toward Cuba, Mexico, and/or mexico.

Tournament: Indiana | Round: 2 | Opponent: East Kentwood | Judge:
A. Interpretation – Economic engagement is long-term strategy for promoting structural linkage between two economies
Mastanduno, 1 – professor of Government at Dartmouth College (Michael, “Economic Engagement Strategies: Theory and Practice” http://web.archive.org/web/20120906033646/http://polisci.osu.edu/faculty/bpollins/book/Mastanduno.pdf

B. Violation – Effecting the economies of both states isn’t enough – Mastanduno says engagement requires structural linkage – which means trade expansion
Sheen, 2 –  associate professor at the Graduate School of International Studies, Seoul National University (Seongho, The Korean Journal of Defense Analysis, Vol. XIV, No. 1, Spring 2002, “US Strategy of Engagement During the Cold War and Its Implication for Sunshine Policy” http://www.kida.re.kr/data/2006/04/14/seongho_sheen.pdf) footnote 22

C. Voting issue –
First is limits – broad interpretations of engagement include anything that effects the economy, which means everything
Second is ground– trade promotion is vital for a stable mechanism for disad links and counterplan ground

Tournament: IDCA State | Round: 4 | Opponent: GBN CT | Judge:
Congress will approve a broad package of aid and sanctions toward Ukraine – political capital is key to secure GOP votes. The alternative is instability
Hughes 3-12
Politics for the WSJ. “Senate Panel Approves Ukraine Aid, Sanctions on Russia” The Wall Street Journal, 3/12/14 lnGBS-JV

Cuba lobby backlashes
The Register 13 (“The Cuban chill”, April 21st, 2013, http://www.registerguard.com/rg/opinion/29740770-78/cuba-lobby-policy-china-political.html.csp)

Political capital is key
Robersts and Timmons 3-12
Political Reporters for the Guardian (UK). “US financial aid to Ukraine in limbo as Congress wrangles with legislation” The Guardian, 3/12/14 lnGBS-JV

Jager 3-13
Elliot. Politics for NewsMax. “ Senate Fouls up Bipartisan Bid to Give Aid Package to Ukraine” 3/13/14 http://www.newsmax.com http://www.newsmax.com/US/senate-ukraine-package-mess/2014/03/13/id/559248#ixzz2vr6nYUhw//GBS-JV

Goes nuclear
Cohen 3-5
Ariel. Senior Research fellow for Russia Studies @ Heritage. “Getting Russia off the Ukraine Tree in the Crimea” http://www.heritage.org/research/commentary/2014/3/getting-russia-off-the-ukrainian-tree-in-the-crimea 3/5/14 GBS-JV