Tournament: Contact Info | Round: 1 | Opponent: NA | Judge: NA
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Tournament: Iowa Caucus | Round: 3 | Opponent: Eagan BS | Judge: Chase Lehrman
Imperialism K

The economic intervention of the affirmative into Latin America is a form of imperialism which precludes self-determination and subjugates recipient countries
Slater, Dept of Geography – Loughborough University, 2006(David, “Imperial powers and democratic imaginations,” Third World Quarterly Vol. 27, No. 8)   

One response to this question is to suggest that, unlike other Western    powers,
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been and remains a    crucial element in the process ofjustification of geopolitical power. 

This imperialism creates a violent global police state which normalizes endless cycles of racism, sexism, and war
MOHANTY 6 (CHANDRA TALPADE, Department of Women’s Studies, Syracuse
University, Gender, Place and Culture Vol. 13, No. 1, pp. 7–20, February 2006, US Empire and the Project of Women’s Studies: Stories of citizenship, complicity and dissent, http://www.uccs.edu/~pkeilbac/courses/intlpol/readings/US20Empire.pdf)
The clearest effects of US empire building in the domestic arena are thus evident in
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war at home and the war abroad. Take Abu Ghraib for instance. 

The alternative is to reject the 1AC in favor of analyzing the different processes of state formation and historical circumstances of developing states and permit the appreciation of alternative modes of social organization
Bilgin and Morton ‘4
Pinar BILGIN IR @ Bilikent AND Adam David MORTON Senior Lecturer and Fellow of the Centre for the Study of Social and Global Justice IR @ Nottingham ‘4
(“From ‘Rogue’ to ‘Failed’ States? The Fallacy of Short-termism” Politics 24 (3) p. Wiley InterscienceDN)

An alternative approach would therefore have to appreciate better the forces that shape the realms
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the changing nature of internal and international conflict might be within developing states.

Social theory is a prior question—contesting representation is necessary to create productive policymaking
McLaren and Kincheloe 5 (Peter Professor of Education, Graduate School of Education and Information Studies @ UCLA and Joe, professor and Canada Research Chair at the Faculty of Education, McGill University in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. The Sage Handbook of Qualitative Research, Third Edition, Eds Norman Denzin and Yvonna Lincoln)
In this context, it is important to note that we understand a social theory
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one time period pale in relation to different points in a new era.

Tournament: New Trier | Round: 6 | Opponent: GBS MB | Judge: Brian Rubaie
Neolib K
Movements against neoliberalism are growing—the plan’s insistence on US led economic engagement reifies neoliberalism’s hegemonic grasp and interrupts crucial status quo delinking processes
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 and social development of the Latin American and Caribbean countries is
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model of uneven and inequitable development that has pillaged most of the region. 

Transitions away from neoliberalism are necessary  to prevent extinction—tech and reforms fail  
Richard A. Smith 7, Research Associate at the Institute for Policy Research and Development, UK; PhD in History from UCLA, June 2007, “The Eco-suicidal Economics of Adam Smith,” Capitalism Nature Socialism, Vol. 18, No. 2, p. 22-43
In the midst of the record-breaking heat wave in the summer of 2003
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"endless technical adjustments;" thus no further theoretical thought is required."27

Epistemological debates are key—the spread of Washington’s neoliberal consensus was possible because of a lack of ideological analysis  
Margheritis and Pereira, 2007 (Ana, assistant professor of international relations and Latin American politics at the University of Florida, Anthony, associate professor of political science at Tulane University, “The Neoliberal Turn in Latin America: The Cycle of Ideas and the Search for an Alternative”, Latin American Perspectives, Vol. 34, No. 3, Contested Transformation (May, 2007) pp. 25-48, JSTOR)
After more than two decades of research on the implementation of economic reforms in Latin
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The contested character of the processes analyzed here demands just such an effort.