Tournament: Garden Ciity | Round: 4 | Opponent: Maize | Judge:
A. Kerry is making substantial progress in the Israeli-Palestine peace talks—he is devoting all of his time and effort to closing the deal
Gordon 6-29 (Michael R., New York Times reporter, June 29, 2013, "Kerry extends Israel trip amid speculation on peace talks" New York Times) http://www.bostonglobe.com/news/world/2013/06/29/kerry-extends-israel-trip-amid-speculation-peace-talks/WhI1jxBpkgzHTux3RMvCQM/story.html
¶ JERUSALEM — U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry extended his trip
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who has been a vocal and enthusiastic supporter of Kerry’s push to revive the
Anderson and Grewell 2000
(Terry L., Executive Director of the Property and Environment Research Center, J. Bishop, former research associate for PERC. He is a graduate of Stanford University, the Yale School of Forestry and Environmental Studies, and Northwestern Law School, "The Greening of Foreign Policy", PERC Policy Series: PS-20, December 2000, http://www.perc.org/pdf/ps20.pdf)
Greater international environmental regulation can increase international tension. Foreign policy is a bag of
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our allies, securing vital resources, and ensuring access to foreign economies."
Jerome Slater, professor of political science at SUNY at Buffalo, Winter 1998 (Political Science Quarterly "Netanyahu, a Palestinian state, and Israeli security reassessed" Vol. 112, Issue 4 ebsco)
Israel has had to live with what I shall call conventional terrorism since the early
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Palestinian opinion and diminish the incentives of the Palestinian Authority to control them.
Harvey Gordon, Visiting Lecturer, Forensic Psychiatry, Tel Aviv University, Psychiatric Bulletin, v. 26, 2002, p. 285-287, online: http://pb.rcpsych.org/cgi/content/full/26/8/285.
Although terrorism throughout human history has been tragic, until relatively recently it has been
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can be remedied by the mass destruction of life, including their own.
====China is growing in influence in Latin America====
Xiaoxia 2013
(Wang; In America’s Backyard: China’s Rising Influence in Latin America; May 6; www.worldcrunch.com/china-2.0/in-america-039-s-backyard-china-039-s-rising-influence-in-latin-america/foreign-policy-trade-economy-investments-energy/c9s11647/; kdf)
China is busy in America’s backyard.¶ Over the past five years, Chinese businesses
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centuries ago, also question how China is quietly arriving in America’s backyard?
Watson 7—strategy professor @ National War College
Cynthia, "China’s Presence in Latin America" ~http://www.wilsoncenter.org/sites/default/files/EnterDragonFinal.pdf~~
But, the inability of Washington to consider anything beyond the concerns about terrorism spreading
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another state becoming a long-term partner with its Latin American neighbors.
Chinese influence in the region key to the global economy and regime stability – preventing US influence key
Ellis 11—national security studies assistant professor @ the National Defense University
R Evan, "Chinese Soft Power in Latin America" ~http://www.ndu.edu/press/lib/images/jfq-60/JFQ60_85-91_Ellis.pdf~~ mtc
Access to Latin American Markets. Latin American markets are becoming increasingly valuable for Chinese
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Area of the Americas) in which the PRC would have been disadvantaged.
====Decline causes nuclear war====
Harris and Burrows 9
Mathew, PhD European History @ Cambridge, counselor in the National Intelligence Council (NIC) and Jennifer is a member of the NIC’s Long Range Analysis Unit "Revisiting the Future: Geopolitical Effects of the Financial Crisis" http://www.ciaonet.org/journals/twq/v32i2/f_0016178_13952.pdf
Increased Potential for Global Conflict
Of course, the report encompasses more than economics and indeed believes the future is
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more focus on preemption rather than defense, potentially leading to escalating crises.
Petras 4
James, "Neoliberalism and Class Politics in Latin America" ~http://www.counterpunch.org/2004/11/13/neoliberalism-and-class-politics-in-latin-america/~~ November 13 mtc
Imperialist power is exercised through a chain of economic and political linkages, which are
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of the world suffering from the imperial re-division of their countries.
Ehrenfeld 5 – Professor of Ecology @ Rutgers
David, Dept. of Ecology, Evolution, and Natural Resources @ Rutgers University, "The Environmental Limits to Globalization", Conservation Biology Vol. 19 No. 2, EBSCO
The known effects of globalization on the environment are numerous and highly significant. Many
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have become so thoroughly entwined with ours within the global environment we share.
Neoliberal governmentality has taken control of knowledge production, forcing its economic understanding of the world upon the population and produced them as human subjects- only a prior rejection of the aff’s neoliberal-based approach can open new avenues for understanding a new strategy
McMurty ’96, (John, Prof. of Philosophy @ U of Guelph, The Cancer Stage of Capitalism, CCPA Monitor, July/August 1996, http://www.islandnet.com/plethora/mai/cancer.html)
The essential problem of any life-threatening cancer is that the host body’s immune
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economic systems which nothing short of a global cancer could effectively bring about.
Çelik 2011 ~Arda Can Çelik , MA in Political Economy/IR 2011 "Economic Sanctions and Engagement Policies¶ Subtitle¶ A review study on coercive and non-coercive diplomatic actions" http://www.grin.com/en/e-book/175204/economic-sanctions-and-engagement-policies~~
The difficulty about cutting or loosen the ties give a rise to important concerns for
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costly to abandon. Therefore this compulsion generates mutual impetus for tuneful relationships.
Key to limits- there are only a few conditions that each of the countries would be willing to accept- the standards for say yes evidence for affs that have conditions is much higher than affs that just give aid