As expected, the State Department on ……………. to remove Cuba from the list. Lifting the embargo is appeasement –it’s a global signal of weakness Perales10 (José Raúl August “The United States and Cuba: Implications of an Economic Relationship” (Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars Latin American Program, Senior Program Associate) http://www.wilsoncenter.org/sites/default/files/LAP_Cuba_Implications.pdf
The Helms-BurtonAct created …………….. would that send to the world? Appeasement kills credibility – it shows countries that the US isn’t hard line - playing a weak hand doesn’t work Weissberg 10 - Professor of Political Science-Emeritus, University of Illinois-Urbana (Robert, “President Obama's Compulsive Appeasement Disorder”, August 27 of 2010, American Thinker, http://www.americanthinker.com/2010/08/president_obamas_compulsive_ap.html)
There's a simple explanation: we ……………………………. lesson, regardless of world outrage. Obama’s credibility is uniquely key to solve conflict – prevents Iran prolif Ben Coes 11, a former speechwriter in the George H.W. Bush administration, managed Mitt Romney’s successful campaign for Massachusetts Governor in 2002 and author, “The disease of a weak president”, The Daily Caller, http://dailycaller.com/2011/09/30/the-disease-of-a-weak-president/
Thus, a rigid conceptual distinction …………………. part of the target state.
CP The United States federal government should end its economic sanctions on the Republic of Cuba 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
The question of what to …………………….. policy victoryfor Mr. Obama.
“This is the second geological ……………………… Mercur, according to some reports. High oil prices key to Putin’s political stability Judah 13 (Ben, Fellow – European Stability Initiative, Moscow Correspondent – Reuters, Russian Politics Research Fellow – European Council on Foreign Relations, B.A. in Modern History and Politics – Oxford University, “Five Traps for Putin”, GLOBAL TRANSITIONS PROSPERITY STUDIES, Legatum Institute, March, http://www.li.com/docs/default-source/publications/five-traps-for-putin~-~--ben-judah-march-2013-(legatum-institute).pdf, )
More recently, Putin has abandoned ………………….Russian president is vulnerable too. Putin's leadership solves nuclear modernization Bugriy 13 (Maksym, Correspondent – Ukrainian Week, “Russia is Arming Itself, but Against Whom?”, Ukrainian Week, 3-31, http://ukrainianweek.com/World/76030, )
The intensification of military reforms ………………-priority regions for the Kremlin. That prevents accidental nuclear use Mosher 3 (David, Senior Policy Analyst in Nuclear Weapons Policy – RAND, “Excessive Force”, RAND Corporation, Fall, http://www.rand.org/pubs/periodicals/rand-review/issues/fall2003/force.html, )
Russian strategic nuclear forces remain ……………………….. forged during the Cold War. Russian accidental launch causes extinction Mintz 1 (Morton, Former Chair – Fund for Investigative Journalism and Reporter – Washington Post, “Two Minutes to Launch”, The American Prospect, http://www.prospect.org/cs/articles?article=two_minutes_to_launch)
Hair-trigger alert means this: ………………………. war by checklist, by rote."
10/28/13
1NC v Brooklyn Tech MB Bronx R3
Tournament: Bronx | Round: 3 | Opponent: Brooklyn Tech MB | Judge: Dikshant Malla K Affirmative fails to critically examine the concept of intersectionality; this failure to criticize prevents true understanding Carbin and Edenheim 13(Maria Carbin, Deputy Director, Umea Centre for Gender Studies, Umea University, Sweden and Sara Edenheim, Lecturer, Umea Centre for Gender Studies, “The intersectional turn in feminist theory: A dream of a common language?” European Journal of Women’s Studies, vol 20, issue 3, July 29, 2013, p. 239-40)
Another characteristic of intersectionality is ………………any explicit positioning and border-setting. Uncritical approach to intersectionality undercuts all its goals: Narratives are rejected; the understanding of difference and power is defeated; and the discipline gets reappropriated as one of the master’s tools Dhamoon 08(Rita, Postdoctoral Fellow and later Assoc. Prof. Political Science University of Victoria, “Considerations in Mainstreaming Intersectionality as an Analytic Appraoch,” research paper, http://www.allacademic.com//meta/p_mla_apa_research_citation/2/3/7/9/9/pages237996/p237996-1.php)
Despite these many benefits for ………………… one of the master’s tools? DA US hegemony is entrenched and sustainable Kagan 12 (Robert Kagan, is a senior fellow in Foreign Policy at Brookings, his most recent book is The World America Made. Dr. Kagan also serves as a member of Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s Foreign Affairs Policy Board and is co-chairman of the bipartisan Working Group on Egypt. He writes a monthly column on world affairs for the Washington Post, and is a contributing editor at both the Weekly Standard and The New Republic, The Brookings Institution, 1/17/12, “Not Fade Away: Against the Myth of American Decline”, http://www.brookings.edu/research/opinions/2012/01/17-us-power-kagan | AK)
Did the fundamentals of America’s ………………..moment has not yet arrived. US Third World feminism impairs US hegemony – the aff specifically claims to fight hegemony with the ALQutami solvency evidence from the 1AC – here it is again, with a few different words emphasized ALQutami 09(Mais Yusuf ALQutami, “Feminist Resistance in Contemporary American Women Writers of Color,” p. 2-3, Ph.D. dissertation, August, 2009, Indiana U. of Pennsylvania, https://dspace.iup.edu/bitstream/handle/2069/177/Mais20ALQutami.pdf?sequence=1)
In the discussion of Arab-……………………..to hegemony, colonization, and imperialism. Hegemony is key to peace, prosperity and individual freedom Kagan 12Robert Kagan, Senior Fellow at the Brookings Institute, B.A., Yale University, M.P.P., John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University, Ph.D., American University, March 14, 2012, “America Has Made the World Freer, Safer and Wealthier”, Brookings Institute, http://www.brookings.edu/research/opinions/2012/03/14-us-power-kagan
We take a lot for …………………. American order came into being. K
Their narrative for the ballot commodifies one’s identity and crushes reform – it subverts its radical intentions Coughlin 95—associate Professor of Law, Vanderbilt Law School. (Anne, REGULATING THE SELF: AUTOBIOGRAPHICAL PERFORMANCES IN OUTSIDER SCHOLARSHIP, 81 Va. L. Rev. 1229) Although Williams is quick to ………………………….. and make it too." n205
Performance gives the levers of power to the audience – they can’t control the (re)presentation of their represenations – their appeal gets coopted by liberalism Phelan 96—chair of New York University's Department of Performance Studies (Peggy, Unmarked: the politics of performance, ed published in the Taylor and Francis e-Library, 2005, 146 Performance’s only life is ………………….. of memory to become present.
The attachment to the ballot reduces their performance to aesthetic formalism – this subordinates the political potential of the performance and narrows it down to academic knowledge production Phelan ‘96—chair of New York University's Department of Performance Studies (Peggy, Unmarked: the politics of performance, ed published in the Taylor and Francis e-Library, 2005,
In his 1981 article Representation …………….art, not subject-object relations.
Their identity arguments are only implicit explanations of the social order. Experience doesn’t create us, we constitute experience and identity together with others – knowledge of experience is part of the community Bhambra 10—U Warwick—AND—Victoria Margree—School of Humanities, U Brighton (Identity Politics and the Need for a ‘Tomorrow’, http://www.academia.edu/471824/Identity_Politics_and_the_Need_for_a_Tomorrow_) We suggest that alternative models …………………….real actions, practices and projects.
Our alternative is to recognize debate as a site of contingent commonality in which we can forge bonds of argumentation beyond identity-~--the affirmative’s focus on subjectivity abdicates the flux of politics and debate for the incontestable truth of identity Brown 95—prof at UC Berkely (Wendy, States of Injury, 47-51)
The postmodern exposure of the …………………underdeveloped taste for political argument.
10/28/13
1NC v Central Catholic JM Bronx R2
Tournament: Bronx | Round: 2 | Opponent: Central Catholic JM | Judge: Miles Owen T
Thus, a rigid conceptual ………………. part of the target state.
CP Observation 1: Competition A. The federal government includes all three branches -- prefer a definition from legal code US Code no date (“United States Federal Government Law and Legal Definition,” http://definitions.uslegal.com/u/united-states-federal-government/)
The United States Federal ………………. the US and iii) Judiciary.
Resolution A legislative instrument that ……………….. ?Rules 8.11 , 13.1 , 6.8 , and 7.4)
Observation 2: Solvency An XO can eliminate the embargo Knowles 2009 (Robert Acting Assistant Professor, New York University School of Law; American Hegemony and the Foreign Affairs Constitution; 41 Ariz. St. L.J. 87; kdf) Realism is particularly compatible with …………………..executive-centered constitutional foreign affairs framework.
Other executive orders in the ………………….. of influence on foreign affairs.
Presidential power is critical to sustain the vital functions of American leadership Mallaby 2K(Sebastian, Member, Washington Post’s Editorial Board, Foreign Affairs, Jan/Feb)
Finally, ……………………… such as isolationism or multiculturalism. Hegemony solves nuclear war Zhang and Shi 11 Yuhan Zhang is a researcher at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, Washington, D.C.; Lin Shi is from Columbia University. She also serves as an independent consultant for the Eurasia Group and a consultant for the World Bank in Washington, D.C., 1/22, “America’s decline: A harbinger of conflict and rivalry”, http://www.eastasiaforum.org/2011/01/22/americas-decline-a-harbinger-of-conflict-and-rivalry/
This does not necessarily mean ………………..devoid of unrivalled US primacy.
DA Plan crushes sustainable Cuban agriculture – crowds out Cuban producers Carmen G. Gonzalez, Assistant Professor, Seattle University School of Law, Summer2003, SEASONS OF RESISTANCE: SUSTAINABLE AGRICULTURE AND FOOD SECURITY IN CUBA, p. 729-33
Notwithstanding these problems, the greatest …………………rom the globaltrading system. Cuban agriculture is modeled globally Ergas 13(Christina Ergas, department of sociology at the University of Oregan. 4/19/13. "Food Sovereignty: Sustainable Urban Agriculture in Cuba". Centre for Research on Globalization". www.globalresearch.ca/food-sovereignty-sustainable-urban-agriculture-in-cuba/5332167)
The agricultural revolution in Cuba ………….. a corporate global food regime. Prevents inevitable food shocks Rodman 11 (Sarah Rodman, Doctoral Fellow and Research Assistant Center for a Livable Future. 9/27/11. "Food Systems After Peak Oil: A Look at Cuba". www.livablefutureblog.com/2011/09/food-systems-after-peak-oil-a-look-at-cuba)
Peak oil is fast approaching, ………….. risk. So, however, does inaction.” That guarantees instability and great power wars CRIBB 10 (Julian, Julian Cribb is a science communicator, journalist and editor of several newspapers and books. His published work includes over 7,000 newspaper articles, 1,000 broadcasts, and three books and has received 32 awards for science, medical, agricultural and business journalism. He was Director, National Awareness, for Australia's science agency, CSIRO, foundation president of the Australian Science Communicators, and originated the CGIAR's Future Harvest strategy. He has worked as a newspaper editor, science editor for "The Australian "and head of public affairs for CSIRO. He runs his own science communication consultancy, “The coming famine: the global food crisis and what we can do to avoid it,” p. 20)
Cuba is a Third World ………………… better of two bad options. Cuba’s health care model is remaking medicine and will prevent disease globally Fitz, 12 - editor of Synthesis/Regeneration: A Magazine of Green Social Thought. (Don, “Why is Cuba’s health-care system the best model for poor countries?” Links: International Journal of Socialist Renewal, 12/8, http://links.org.au/node/3136)
Furious though it may be, the ………….. to be the most concerned. Diseases end civilization David Quammen 12, award-winning science writer, long-time columnist for Outside magazine for fifteen years, with work in National Geographic, Harper's, Rolling Stone, the New York Times Book Review and other periodicals, 9/29, “Could the next big animal-to-human disease wipe us out?,” The Guardian, pg. 29, Lexis Infectious disease is all around ……………..disease, and viruses in particular.
Under Castro, the Cuban government has ……………..forward to securing a viable legacy. Lifting the Embargo would pressure Cuba for rapid reforms Cave, 12 – foreign correspondent for The New York Times, based in Mexico City and has a B.A. from Boston College and an M.S. from Columbia University's Graduate School of Journalism (Damien, “Easing of Restraints in Cuba Renews Debate on U.S. Embargo”, NY Times, 11/19/12, http://www.nytimes.com/2012/11/20/world/americas/changes-in-cuba-create-support-for-easing-embargo.html?pagewanted=alland_r=0)//EX
Still, in a country where ………………… “There is a lot of work to be done.”
Gradualism: Gradualism in economic reform—………………for maintenance of the status quo. Rapid change risks Cuban civil war Feinberg 11 - professor of international political economy at UC San Dieg, nonresident senior fellow with the Latin America Initiative at Brookings (Richard E., “Reaching Out: Cuba’s New Economy and the International Response”, November, Brookings, http://www.brookings.edu/~/media/research/files/papers/2011/11/1820cuba20feinberg/1118_cuba_feinberg.pdf)//ID Some in the United ……………… halt a mass exodus of refugees.
Some countries can drive other ………………. to the lessons of experience.
10/28/13
1NC v SVDP YM Bronx R5
Tournament: Bronx | Round: 5 | Opponent: SVDP YM | Judge: Jackie Chen F/W Alimited topic of discussion that provides for equitable groundis key to productive inculcation of decision-making and advocacy skills in every and all facets of life---even if their position is contestable that’s distinct from it being valuably debatable---this still provides room for flexibility, creativity, and innovation Steinberg andFreeley 8 *Austin J. Freeley is a Boston based attorney who focuses on criminal, personal injury and civil rights law, AND David L. Steinberg , Lecturer of Communication Studies @ U Miami, Argumentation and Debate: Critical Thinking for Reasoned Decision Making pp45-
Debate is a means of ………………………… outlined in the following discussion. That’s key to social improvements in every and all facets of life Steinberg andFreeley 8 *Austin J. Freeley is a Boston based attorney who focuses on criminal, personal injury and civil rights law, AND David L. Steinberg , Lecturer of Communication Studies @ U Miami, Argumentation and Debate: Critical Thinking for Reasoned Decision Making pp9-10
If we assume it to ………………… these decisions through reasoned debate. Only portable skill---means our framework turns case Steinberg andFreeley 8 *Austin J. Freeley is a Boston based attorney who focuses on criminal, personal injury and civil rights law, AND David L. Steinberg , Lecturer of Communication Studies @ U Miami, Argumentation and Debate: Critical Thinking for Reasoned Decision Making pp9-10
After several days of intense …………………for our favored political candidate.¶ K The ballot is meaningless and so is the 1AC – the nature of debate necessitates an appeal to the judge and the ballot – that puts faith in a political system that has already died Invisible Committee 9 (The Invisible Committee, an anonymous group of French philosophers, 2009, “THE COMING INSURRECTION”, http://libcom.org/library/coming-insurrection-invisible-committee, PDF attachment on website | JJ)
From whatever angle you approach …………………… seriously haunt the ruling class. The aff reveals the perspective of the oppressed, and in doing so, shares their secrets—this undermines the potential for resistance, turning the case Hundleby 5 (Catherine, U of Windsor, The Epistemological Evaluation of Oppositional Secrets, Hypatia, 20(4), Fall 2005, p. 44-58)LA
I keep secrets. Even ………………….. vulnerability that morally require secrecy. Here’s the framing question: “Why do they need a ballot to affirm solidarity with the Zapatistas?” – the alternative is to embrace invisibility as a method for insurrection – that solves comparatively better Invisible Committee 9 (The Invisible Committee, an anonymous group of French philosophers, 2009, “THE COMING INSURRECTION”, http://libcom.org/library/coming-insurrection-invisible-committee, PDF attachment on website | JJ)
Flee visibility. Turn anonymity into …………………. to permanently destroy computerized databases.
As expected, the State Department on ……………. to remove Cuba from the list. Lifting the embargo is appeasement –it’s a global signal of weakness Perales10 (José Raúl August “The United States and Cuba: Implications of an Economic Relationship” (Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars Latin American Program, Senior Program Associate) http://www.wilsoncenter.org/sites/default/files/LAP_Cuba_Implications.pdf
The Helms-BurtonAct created …………….. would that send to the world? Appeasement kills credibility – it shows countries that the US isn’t hard line - playing a weak hand doesn’t work Weissberg 10 - Professor of Political Science-Emeritus, University of Illinois-Urbana (Robert, “President Obama's Compulsive Appeasement Disorder”, August 27 of 2010, American Thinker, http://www.americanthinker.com/2010/08/president_obamas_compulsive_ap.html)
There's a simple explanation: we ……………………………. lesson, regardless of world outrage. Obama’s credibility is uniquely key to solve conflict – prevents Iran prolif Ben Coes 11, a former speechwriter in the George H.W. Bush administration, managed Mitt Romney’s successful campaign for Massachusetts Governor in 2002 and author, “The disease of a weak president”, The Daily Caller, http://dailycaller.com/2011/09/30/the-disease-of-a-weak-president/
Thus, a rigid conceptual distinction …………………. part of the target state.
CP The United States federal government should end its economic sanctions on the Republic of Cuba 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
The question of what to …………………….. policy victoryfor Mr. Obama.
“This is the second geological ……………………… Mercur, according to some reports. High oil prices key to Putin’s political stability Judah 13 (Ben, Fellow – European Stability Initiative, Moscow Correspondent – Reuters, Russian Politics Research Fellow – European Council on Foreign Relations, B.A. in Modern History and Politics – Oxford University, “Five Traps for Putin”, GLOBAL TRANSITIONS PROSPERITY STUDIES, Legatum Institute, March, http://www.li.com/docs/default-source/publications/five-traps-for-putin~-~~-~-ben-judah-march-2013-(legatum-institute).pdf, )
More recently, Putin has abandoned ………………….Russian president is vulnerable too. Putin's leadership solves nuclear modernization Bugriy 13 (Maksym, Correspondent – Ukrainian Week, “Russia is Arming Itself, but Against Whom?”, Ukrainian Week, 3-31, http://ukrainianweek.com/World/76030, )
The intensification of military reforms ………………-priority regions for the Kremlin. That prevents accidental nuclear use Mosher 3 (David, Senior Policy Analyst in Nuclear Weapons Policy – RAND, “Excessive Force”, RAND Corporation, Fall, http://www.rand.org/pubs/periodicals/rand-review/issues/fall2003/force.html, )
Russian strategic nuclear forces remain ……………………….. forged during the Cold War. Russian accidental launch causes extinction Mintz 1 (Morton, Former Chair – Fund for Investigative Journalism and Reporter – Washington Post, “Two Minutes to Launch”, The American Prospect, http://www.prospect.org/cs/articles?article=two_minutes_to_launch)
Hair-trigger alert means this: ………………………. war by checklist, by rote."
10/28/13
Michigan Round 2
Tournament: Michigan | Round: 2 | Opponent: Calhoun MS | Judge: Jon Sussman K The affirmative’s economic framing lies as the real to global capitalism – A leap of faith can upset the system that creates capitalism as truth Zizek 8 (Slavoj Zizek, professor of philosophy at the university of Ljubljana, psychoanalyst, 2008, “In Defense of Lost Causes”, p. II) The common sense of our era …………………. position from which one speaks. The US concern for safety places us in a state of paranoia Zizek 5 (Slavoj, Give Iranian Nukes a Chance, 8-11-5, http://www.lacan.com/zizekiranian.htm) Every power structure has ………………………..turns out to be the real criminal.
Capitalism justifies and hidesrealitiesof poverty, violence, and injustices Zizek 08 - senior researcher at the Institute of Sociology University of Ljubljana (Slavoj, Violence, 2008, p. 12-13, CH)jc The notion of objective …………………….s really is ideology at its purest.
The alternative text: Reject the aff in favor of psychoanalytical interrogation The alt is key to opening up perspectives that expose the symbolic and challenge capitalist death drive, preventing totalitarianism Žižek 2009 (Slavoj Žižek, researcher at the institute for sociology at Ljubljana, The Sublime Object of Ideology (Second Edition), January 5, 2009, pg. xvii-xxviii)ctcjc
Psychoanalytic 'essentialism' is paradoxical …………………… basic antagonism, this basic impossibility.
T “Engagement” requires direct talks with the target government Crocker 9 – Chester Crocker, Professor of Strategic Studies at the Walsh School of Foreign Service at Georgetown University, Former Assistant Secretary of State for African Affairs, “Terms of Engagement”, New York Times, 9-13, http://www.nytimes.com/2009/09/14/opinion/14crocker.html?_r=0
PRESIDENT OBAMA will have ……………modify its policies and its behavior. “Cuba” does not include the Guantanamo base – prefer a definition from federal legal code CFR 6 (Code of Federal Regulations, 19CFR Ch. 1(4-1-06 Edition), p. 634)
Subpart O—Flights to …………………. the Guantanamo Bay Naval Station. Violation --- plan’s only a unilateral change in policy; it doesn’t increase dialogue That’s best for limits—creates predictable recipients—only affs that engage a government—not private property, companies or people Ground --- talks are a stable mechanism for DA links and competition for counterplans like two-track or quiet diplomacy --- core ground is key to fairness. Voting issue for fairness, education and jurisdiction.
CP The President of the United States should substantially increase its economic engagement toward Cuba by ruling that the United States’ occupation of Guantanamo Bay violates international law.
"It is hard to be optimistic ………………. House and signed into law." Guantanamo Bay action requires a massive input of political capital Rogin 5/23(Josh, senior correspondent for national security and politics for Newsweek and The Daily Beast, How Obama Bungled the Guantánamo Closing, 5/23/13, http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2013/05/23/how-obama-bungled-the-guantanamo-closing.html)
President Obama called today for ………………. for the rest of his days.” Reform’s key to all aspects of US hegemony Nye 12. Joseph S., a former US assistant secretary of defense and chairman of the US National Intelligence Council, is University Professor at Harvard University. “Immigration and American Power,” December 10, Project Syndicate, http://www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/obama-needs-immigration-reform-to-maintain-america-s-strength-by-joseph-s~-~-nye CAMBRIDGE – The United States …………………. maintain the strength of the US.
US primacy prevents global conflict – diminishing power creates a vacuum that causes transition wars in multiple places Brooks et al 13 Stephen G. Brooks is Associate Professor of Government at Dartmouth College.G. John Ikenberry is the Albert G. Milbank Professor of Politics and International Affairs at Princeton University in the Department of Politics and the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs. He is also a Global Eminence Scholar at Kyung HeeUniversity.William C. Wohlforth is the Daniel Webster Professor in the Department of Government at Dartmouth College. “Don't Come Home, America: The Case against Retrenchment”, Winter 2013, Vol. 37, No. 3, Pages 7-51,http://www.mitpressjournals.org/doi/abs/10.1162/ISEC_a_00107, GDI File
A core premise of deep engagement is …………………………… including regional great power war).
11/7/13
Michigan Round 4
Tournament: Michigan | Round: 4 | Opponent: New Trier BW | Judge: Jeremy Hammond 1 A – Definition Removing selective restrictions on specific goods isn’t “economic” because it doesn’t broadly affect economic life Davidsson 3 – Elias Davidsson, Human Rights Researcher and Activist, Reporter for the Arab American News, Contributing Editor for Global Research, “The Mechanism of Economic Sanctions: Changing Perceptions and Euphemisms”, November, www.aldeilis.net/english/attachments/2877_econsanc-debate.pdf?
“Economic sanctions”,a mode of ………………..rather than to affect the economy.
B – Plan violates. It solely lifts restrictions that pertain to a specific good – oil
C – Voter. They make the topic explode by allowing the Aff to tweak the embargo for specific commodities. 2 The aff’s attempt to increase free trade in Latin America is a form of neoliberal engagement that exacerbates inequality and justifies endless intervention — causes extinction – moral obligation to put those oppressed by the West at the center of decision making Makwana 6(Rajesh, STWR, 23rd November 06, http://www.stwr.org/globalization/neoliberalism-and-economic-globalization.html, ZBurdette)
Neoliberalism and Economic Globalization The goal of neoliberal economic ……………….. prices, are both likely causes. Our alternative is to decolonize economic engagement. Questioning the politics of space and knowledge that make engagement an economic tool of manipulation is key to sustainable development. Walsh 12, Estudios Culturales Latinoamericanos de la UniversidadAndinaSimón Bolívar, 2012 (Catherine, “The Politics of Naming”, Cultural Studies, 26.1, Project Muse)
US primacy prevents global conflict – diminishing power creates a vacuum that causes transition wars in multiple places Brooks et al 13 Stephen G. Brooks is Associate Professor of Government at Dartmouth College.G. John Ikenberry is the Albert G. Milbank Professor of Politics and International Affairs at Princeton University in the Department of Politics and the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs. He is also a Global Eminence Scholar at Kyung HeeUniversity.William C. Wohlforth is the Daniel Webster Professor in the Department of Government at Dartmouth College. “Don't Come Home, America: The Case against Retrenchment”, Winter 2013, Vol. 37, No. 3, Pages 7-51,http://www.mitpressjournals.org/doi/abs/10.1162/ISEC_a_00107, GDI File
A core premise of deep …………………………..including regional great power war).
4 A – Issue-Specific Uniqueness. Saudi Arabia has not yet acquired the bomb. Perception of US support is the key factor.
Guzansky ‘13 YoelGuzansky 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 …………………….. continuity of the House of Saud.
B – Links. First – Embargo limits status quo drilling. Plan involves the US – unlocking large-scale Cuban production.
Padgett ‘8 Tim Padgett joined TIME in 1996 as Mexico City bureau chief covering Latin America. In 1999 he moved to Florida to become TIME’s Miami and Latin America bureau chief, reporting on the hemisphere from Tallahassee to Tierra del Fuego. He has chronicled Mexico’s democratization and drug war as well as the rise of Latin leaders like Lula and Hugo Chavez, “How Cuba’s Oil Find Could Change the US Embargo”¶ Time Magazine – Oct. 23, 2008 – internally quoting Jonathan Benjamin-Alvarado, a Cuba oil analyst at the University of Nebraska-Omaha. http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,¶ 1853252,00.html#ixzz13Li5cosN
The Spanish energy …………………. need are the Americans."
Second – Cuban production trades-off with US-Mid-East oil ties
Alhaiji and Maris ‘4 Dr. A. F. Alhajji is an energy economist and George Patton Chair of Business and Economics at the College of Business Administration at Ohio Northern, Terry L. Maris is the founding executive director of the Center for Cuban. Business Studies and professor of management, “The Future of Cuba’s Energy Sector,” Cuba Today, 2004, http://web.gc.cuny.edu/dept/bildn/publications/cubatodaybookcomplete.pdf#page=105
The current economic, political, …………………, especially in the MiddleEast.
Third – Perception. 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, “America Committed to Gulf Security Despite Changing Relationship with Region's Oil, says Gen. Dempsey,” 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 ……………….. carefully. What a tightrope to walk. C- Impact – Saudi prolif causes nuclear war.
Tournament: Michigan | Round: 6 | Opponent: Dowling Catholic WZ | Judge: Kevin Hirn K The aff’s attempt to increase free trade in Latin America is a form of neoliberal engagement that exacerbates inequality and justifies endless intervention — causes extinction – moral obligation to put those oppressed by the West at the center of decision making Makwana 6(Rajesh, STWR, 23rd November 06, http://www.stwr.org/globalization/neoliberalism-and-economic-globalization.html, ZBurdette)
Neoliberalism and Economic Globalization The goal of neoliberal economic ……………. market prices, are both likely causes. Our alternative is to decolonize economic engagement. Questioning the politics of space and knowledge that make engagement an economic tool of manipulation is key to sustainable development. Walsh 12, Estudios Culturales Latinoamericanos de la UniversidadAndinaSimón Bolívar, 2012 (Catherine, “The Politics of Naming”, Cultural Studies, 26.1, Project Muse)
Cultural Studies, in our project, is ………………………… part of the politics of naming. T Interpretation – Economic engagement is exclusively economic Jakštait? 10 (Gerda, Doctoral Candidate Vytautas Magnus University Faculty of Political Sciences and Diplomacy (Lithuania), “CONTAINMENT AND ENGAGEMENT AS MIDDLE-RANGE THEORIES,” December 10, 2010, BALTIC JOURNAL OF LAW and POLITICS VOLUME 3, NUMBER 2 (2010), http://versita.metapress.com/content/0w3157n438689417/fulltext.pdf)
in•crease in kr?ss transitive ……………… or degreenoun (pluralin•creas•es) Violation – removing Cuban from the state sponsor terror list doesn’t cause economic engagement – the embargo still prevents trade OFAC 12 (Office of Foreign Asset Controls, US Department of treasury, “CUBA: WHAT YOU NEED TO KNOW ABOUT THE U.S. EMBARGO,” 1/14/12, http://www.lawg.org/storage/documents/Cuba/lawg_cip_dec_2011.pdf)
CUBA: WHAT YOU NEED ……………….. Internet-based communications (see § 515.578).¶
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Limits – there are countless non-economic engagement policies 2. Ground – the aff denies access to key DA links by changing the ground from economics – kills fairness and economic education 3. Effects T – economic interdependence must be a mandate of the plan – their aff justifies policy that could result in economic engagement – kills clash because literally anything can result in economic interaction CP The President of the United States should substantially increase its economic engagement toward Cuba by ruling that the United States’ occupation of Guantanamo Bay violates international law.
Mapping the national and ………………… regulations pursuant to the CAA. Action now averts extinction Morgan 9– professor at Hankuk University of Foreign Studies (Dennis Ray, “World on Fire: Two Scenarios of the Destruction of Human Civilization and the Possible Extinction of the Human Race”, 2009)Beddow
"It is hard to be optimistic …………………..the House and signed into law." Plan costs capital and is a flip-flop Williams 13 (Carol, currently at the LA Times, A foreign correspondent for 25 years, Carol J. Williams traveled to and reported from more than 80 countries in Europe, Asia, the Middle East and Latin America, Political calculus keeps Cuba on U.S. list of terror sponsors. http://www.latimes.com/news/world/worldnow/la-fg-wn-cuba-us-terror-list-20130502,0,2494970.story#ixzz2YmmqmyTI, 5/3/13)
The decision to retain …………………………… foreign policy battles elsewhere.” Ag industry’s collapsing now---immigration’s key Alfonso Serrano 12, Bitter Harvest: U.S. Farmers Blame Billion-Dollar Losses on Immigration Laws, Time, 9-21-12, http://business.time.com/2012/09/21/bitter-harvest-u-s-farmers-blame-billion-dollar-losses-on-immigration-laws/ The Broetjes and an increasing number ………………. American Farm Bureau Federation. Extinction Lugar 2kChairman of the Senator Foreign Relations Committee and Member/Former Chair of the Senate Agriculture Committee (Richard, a US Senator from Indiana, is Chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, and a member and former chairman of the Senate Agriculture Committee. “calls for a new green revolution to combat global warming and reduce world instability,” pg online @ http://www.unep.org/OurPlanet/imgversn/143/lugar.html)
In a world confronted by ………………. of people and the health of our planet.
