Tournament: New Trier | Round: 5 | Opponent: University Prep DK | Judge: Matt Olson
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 … the embargo provides.
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 … 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 … 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… total nuclear exchange.

Tournament: New Trier | Round: 5 | Opponent: University Prep DK | Judge: Matt Olson
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//VS)
Many Cuba well-… country’s sovereignty and traditions.

Tournament: New Trier | Round: 3 | Opponent: Niles West LS | Judge: Andrew Wirth
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
As if to confirm … might be too late.”

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
At the political level…  from the Czech Republic.30

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)
China's forays into … cooperation and arms sales. 

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)
As China plays … surprise the world.

Tournament: Niles | Round: 2 | Opponent: Des Moines Roosevelt TK | Judge: Watson, Dave
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 reverses that – de-linking is key  
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 economic, political …. 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 … 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 … pursue alternative visions?

Tournament: New Trier | Round: 2 | Opponent: HoFlo MD | Judge: Ernie Rose
That causes Saudi Arabia to flood the oil market and collapse prices
MORSE AND RICHARDS 2002 (Edward L. Morse is Executive Adviser at Hess Energy Trading Company and was Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for International Energy Policy in 1979-81. James Richard is a portfolio manager at Firebird Management, an investment fund active in eastern Europe, Russia, and Central Asia, Foreign Affairs, March/April)
A simple fact explains …  non-OPEC countries.

That crushes the Russian economy and undermines support for the regime
KRAMER 12 – New York Times writer and editor (ANDREW E. “Higher Oil Prices to Pay for Campaign Promises” New York Times March 16, 2012 http://www.nytimes.com/2012/03/17/business/global/vladimir-putins-big-promises-need-fueling-by-high-oil-prices.html?_r=2?pagewanted=print Putin Needs)
MOSCOW — In American presidential …  Mr. Putin’s stump speech.

Nuclear war
FILGER 2009 (Sheldon, author and blogger for the Huffington Post, “Russian Economy Faces Disastrous Free Fall Contraction” http://www.globaleconomiccrisis.com/blog/archives/356)
In Russia historically, …  least dangerous consequence.

Tournament: Niles | Round: Doubles | Opponent: Maine East AL | Judge: Watson, Dave Luu, Norman Weston, David
The instruments of engagement must be exclusively economic
Jakstaite, 10 - Doctoral Candidate Vytautas Magnus University Faculty of Political Sciences and Diplomacy (Lithuania) (Gerda, “CONTAINMENT AND ENGAGEMENT AS MIDDLE-RANGE THEORIES” BALTIC JOURNAL OF LAW and POLITICS VOLUME 3, NUMBER 2 (2010), DOI: 10.2478/v10076-010-0015-7)

The approach to … economic engagement 

The plan is non-economic engagement
Rose, 8 - Professor of International Trade and Economic Analysis and Policy in the Haas School of Business at the University of California, Berkeley, NBER research associate and CEPR research fellow (Andrew, “NON-ECONOMIC ENGAGEMENT AND INTERNATIONAL EXCHANGE: THE CASE OF ENVIRONMENTAL TREATIES” April, http://www.nber.org/papers/w13988.pdf)

Countries, like people…theory and practice, is positive.

Tournament: Niles | Round: 2 | Opponent: Des Moines Roosevelt TK | Judge: Watson, Dave
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

The basic causal … foreign policy accommodation.

B. Violation – the plan is an economic inducement – engagement requires trade promotion
Celik, 11 – master’s student at Uppsala University (Department of Peace and Conflict Research) (Arda, Economic Sanctions and Engagement Policies http://www.grin.com/en/e-book/175204/economic-sanctions-and-engagement-policies)

Literature of liberal … political transformation potential.(Kroll,1993)