Tournament: Affirmation 1nc | Round: 1 | Opponent: Affirmation 1nc | Judge:
We negate the resolution as a fanatical performative agitation substantially increasing our intellectual investment in the narratives of economic engagement towards Latin America 

Offcase 2

The judge should endorse the 1ac as a critical interrogation for the racial and economic logic of disposability within US transportation policies

The politics of affirmation produce a weak ontology that lacks the political moment necessary to produce a productive act. The aff divests the ability of politics to be oppositional.  Our alternative is to embrace radical negativity and oppositional politics
Dean 2005 Jodi A politics of avoidance: the limits of weak ontology http://jdeanicite.typepad.com/i_cite/files/butler_and_ontology.doc
Some political theorists ...illegal, diseased, disposable. 

Their ethos of generosity results in global war and destruction via the war on terrorism –only the alternative can solve
Jodi Dean, assc. Prof of political theory at Hobart and Williams smith 2007
Why Žižek for Political Theory? , http://zizekstudies.org/index.php/ijzs/article/view/18/41, IJŽS Vol 1, No 1
Slavoj Žižek’s work ... in the world.

Tournament: Afropessimism 1nc | Round: 1 | Opponent: Afropessimism 1nc | Judge:
The grammar of civil society seeks to ignore and exclude past atrocities.   You must hold them accountable.  The only ethical act that can be taken in this civil society is that of the Savage or the Slave.  This sets the state for all other interrogations and paves the way for ontological suffering.

Wilderson III, 2010 (Frank B., Prof of African American studies and drama @ UC Irvine, Red White and Black:  Cinema and the Structure of U.S. Antagonisms Pg. 1-5)

WHEN I WAS … theory that follows.

Civil society’s reliance on white supremacy is the basis for genocide, ontological violence based on the penal system, and the eradication of the non-white other.  It outweighs all impacts.

Rodriguez, summer 2008 (Dylan, Prof of Ethnic Studies at UC Riverside, “Race, Gender, and Immigration in the Globality of the U.S. Prison Regime” The Scholar and Feminist Online http://sfonline.barnard.edu/immigration/print_drodriguez.htm)

White supremacist social… building, and globality.

The alternative is to refuse the 1ac to death.  Each affirmation allows civil society more coherence than the alt alone. 

Wilderson III 2007 (Frank B. Assistant Professor of African American Studies and Drama at UC Irvine, Warfare in the American Homeland-Policing and Prison in a Penal Democracy Edit By James Joy, Pg 31-33)

Slavery is the … to the death.

Tournament: Border CP 1nc | Round: 1 | Opponent: Border CP 1nc | Judge:
Text: The United States of Mexico should complete the construction of the Tornillo-Guadalupe Bridge

Mexico financing a bridge over the Rio Grande solves massive congestion
Fox News 13 (Fox News Latino, “Border Bridge Stalls U.S., Mexico Border Plan,” 6/3/13, http://latino.foxnews.com/latino/news/2013/06/03/building-new-us-mexico-border-crossing-stalls/, MDM)

A bridge over ... match with ours."

Tournament: Cite Request | Round: 1 | Opponent: Cite Request | Judge:
Email michaelmarcusdb8@gmail.com
No full text will be given

Tournament: Cuba Condition CP Democracy NB 1nc | Round: 1 | Opponent: Cuba Condition CP Democracy NB 1nc | Judge:
The United States federal government should eliminate its restrictions on upstream petroleum cooperation toward the Republic of Cuba 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 ... for Mr. Obama.

Unilaterally cooperating with Cuba destroys the credibility of all Latin American democracy---causes authoritarian backsliding
Castañeda 8 - Jorge G. Castañeda, professor at New York University and fellow at the New America Foundation, was Mexico's foreign minister from 2000 to 2003, September-October 2008, “Morning in Latin America,” Foreign Affairs, Vol. 87, No. 5
Realpolitik and fear ...the Cuban precedent.

Latin American democracy’s a key model for democracy globally
Fauriol and Weintraub 95 – Georges Fauriol, director of the CSIS Americas Program, and Sidney Weintraub, the William E. Simon Chair in Political Economy at CSIS and the Dean Rusk Professor at the Lyndon B. Johnson School of Public Affairs at the University of Texas at Austin, Summer 1995, “U.S. Policy, Brazil, and the Southern Cone,” The Washington Quarterly, lexis
The democracy theme ... in the world.

Extinction
Diamond 95 - Larry Diamond, senior fellow at the Hoover Institution, December 1995, Promoting Democracy in the 1990s, http://wwics.si.edu/subsites/ccpdc/pubs/di/1.htm
OTHER THREATS This ... can be built.

Tournament: Cuba Environment DA 1nc | Round: 1 | Opponent: Cuba Environment DA 1nc | Judge:
Cuba’s environment is protected now but easing restrictions leads to massive increase in investment and tourism in Cuba – devastates the unique ecological environment
Dean, 7 - science writer for the New York Times, taught seminars and courses at the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism and Vassar College, and the University of Rhode Island, member of the Corporation of Brown University, a founding member of the advisory board of the Metcalf Institute for Marine and Environmental Reporting (Cornelia, “Published: Conserving Cuba, After the Embargo”, December 25, 2007 http://www.nytimes.com/2007/12/25/science/25cuba.html?pagewanted=alland_r=1and)//ah
Through accidents of ... U.S. embargo lifts.”

Coral reefs underpin all human life
Green Reefs, 12 – Green Reefs environmental magazine (“About Us; Who Are We?” 4/22/12,http://green-reefs.com/GreenReefAboutUs.html)

Here at Green ...the ocean floor.

Tournament: Debt Ceiling DA 1nc | Round: 1 | Opponent: Debt Ceiling DA 1nc | Judge:
Debt ceiling will be raised now but it’s not certain --- Obama’s ironclad political capital is forcing the GOP to give in
Beutler 13 Brian Beutler 10/3/13, “Republicans finally confronting reality: They’re trapped!,” Salon http://www.salon.com/2013/10/03/republicans_finally_confronting_reality_theyre_trapped/

After struggling for ... red dye packet.

LINK

Obama has capital and it’s key to debt ceiling
Lanenkamp 7/13/13 (Andy, Global political analyst at ECR Research and Interest and Currency Consultants, Huffington Post, http://www.huffingtonpost.com/andy-langenkamp/obama-to-take-over-baton-_b_3571885.html)

Obama's weakened hand ... have hitherto done. 

Debt default kills the economy
Schwarcz 8/14/13 (Steven L., Star Professor of Law and Business, and Founding Director, Duke Global Capital Markets Center, Duke University of School of Law, “Rollover Risk: Ideating a U.S. Debt Default,” http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2307569)

A U.S. debt ...higher interest rate.162

Extinction
Austin ‘09 (Michael, Resident Scholar – American Enterprise Institute, and Desmond Lachman, Resident Fellow – American Enterprise Institute, “The Global Economy Unravels”, Forbes, 3-6, http://www.aei.org/article/100187)

Conversely, global policymakers ... a big bang.

Tournament: Framework 1nc | Round: 1 | Opponent: Framework 1nc | Judge: 

1. “Resolved” before a colon reflects a legislative forum
   Army Officer School 4 (5-12, “# 12, Punctuation – The Colon and Semicolon”, http://usawocc.army.mil/IMI/wg12.htm)

The colon introduces ...petition the mayor.

2. “United States Federal Government should” means the debate is solely about the outcome of a policy established by governmental means
Ericson 3 (Jon M., Dean Emeritus of the College of Liberal Arts – California Polytechnic U., et al., The Debater’s Guide, Third Edition, p. 4)

The Proposition of ...that you propose. 

First, A limited topic of discussion that provides for ground for discussion is key to productive 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--- T debates also solve any possible turn
Steinberg and Freeley 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 ...the following discussion.

Second, Discussion of specific policy-questions is crucial for skills development--- forces students to engage in concrete issues of government policy formulation
Esberg and Sagan 12 *Jane Esberg is special assistant to the director at New York University's Center on. International Cooperation. She was the winner of 2009 Firestone Medal, AND Scott Sagan is a professor of political science and director of Stanford's Center for International Security and Cooperation “NEGOTIATING NONPROLIFERATION: Scholarship, Pedagogy, and Nuclear Weapons Policy,” 2/17 The Nonproliferation Review, 19:1, 95-108
These government or ... act on information.14

Key to improvement in all aspects of life
Steinberg and Freeley 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
John F. Kennedy ... through reasoned debate.

Effective deliberation is the lynchpin of solving all existential global problems
Christian O. Lundberg 10 Professor of Communications @ University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, “Tradition of Debate in North Carolina” in Navigating Opportunity: Policy Debate in the 21st Century By Allan D. Louden, p311
The second major ...increasingly complex world.

Tournament: Immigration 1nc | Round: 1 | Opponent: Immigration 1nc | Judge:
Immigration reform will pass --- it’s Obama’s top priority
Eleanor Clift, 10-25-2013, “Obama, Congress Get Back to the Immigration Fight,” Daily Beast, http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2013/10/25/obama-congress-get-back-to-the-immigration-fight.html
But now with ... history and demography.    

Obama’s fresh political capital is vital to reignite momentum for immigration
Reid Epstein 10/17/13, writer at Politico, “Obama’s latest push features a familiar strategy,” http://www.politico.com/story/2013/10/barack-obama-latest-push-features-familiar-strategy-98512.html
President Barack Obama ... significant Republican votes.”

LINK

Immigration reform key to development and commercialization clean tech
Richard Herman and Robert L. Smith, 2010 (founder of Richard T. Herman and Associates, an immigration and business law firm in Cleveland, Ohio, “Why Immigrants Can Drive The Green Economy,” http://www.ilw.com/articles/2010,0630-herman.shtm, Accessed 1/24/2013, rwg)
Raymond Spencer, an ... U.S. immigration barriers.

Prevents extinction from resource wars, great power competition, and warming
Klarevas 9 (Louis, Professor at the Center for Global Affairs – New York University, “Securing American Primacy While Tackling Climate Change: Toward a National Strategy of Greengemony”, Huffington Post, 12-15, http://www.huffingtonpost.com/louis-klarevas/securing-american-primacy_b_393223.html)
As national leaders ... strategy of greengemony.

Tournament: Imperialism 1nc | Round: 1 | Opponent: Imperialism 1nc | Judge:
Danger is manufactured through discourse that constitutes international relations
Campbell, professor of international politics at the University of Newcastle, 1998
(David, has also taught at Keele University and Johns Hopkins University, Writing Security, University of Minnesota Press, pg  2-4)

Danger is not ... at risk.

The catastrophes of imperialism trump other impacts
William Eckhardt, Lentz Peace Research Laboratory of St. Louis, February 1990, Journal of Peace Research, Vol. 27, No. 1, jstor, p. 15-16

Wright looked at ... upon our choice

Vote negative to reject the affirmative. Our lives are not more valuable than the lives of those suffering the horrors of imperialism. Prioritizing the alternative creates real politics.
Butler, professor of rhetoric at Berkeley, 2009 p. 2-4 (Judith, Frames of War)

The precarity of ... of its effects.

Tournament: Intersectionality 1nc | Round: 1 | Opponent: Intersectionality 1nc | Judge:
Their discursive construction of whiteness as a monolithic idea oversimplifies intersections of oppression
Rasmussen, Et al, 2K1 (Birgit Brander Rasmussen, PhD, Dept. of Comparative and Ethnic Studies, UCal-Berkeley, “Introduction,” The making and unmaking of whiteness, pp. 7-8, JT)

As these recent ... white skin privilege.

Racism does not originate in subjectivity, but in non-subjective networks of biopower. Failure to reconceive power means whiteness will never deconstruct white subjectivity
Ladelle McWhorter, Prof. University of Richmond, 2K5 (“Where do white people come from? A Foucaultian critique of Whiteness Studies,” PHILOSOPHY and SOCIAL CRITICISM • vol 31 nos 5–6 • pp. 533–556, JT)

If I felt ... work is essential.

Intersectional perspective key it’s the only way to breakdown biopower
Cockburn, Professor of Sociology, 2010 (Cynthia, Gender Relations as Causal in Militarization and War, International Feminist Journal of Politics, Volume 12 Issue 2 June, Proquest)

There are many ... they are intersectional.

Tournament: Neoliberalism 1nc | Round: 1 | Opponent: Neoliberalism 1nc | Judge:
Latin American anti-neoliberal movements are growing now- these spill over globally but the plan reifies neoliberalism’s grasp by insisting on US led economic cooperation. The alternative is to vote neg to de-link Latin America from neoliberalism. This is key to tear down the system
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 ... of the region. 

Neoliberalism causes 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 ...thought is required."27

Tournament: Nickel DAPIC 1nc | Round: 1 | Opponent: Nickel DAPIC 1nc | Judge:
Text: The United States federal government ought to normalize its trade relations with the Republic of Cuba excluding nickel trade


Don’t allow new clarifications because legal code supports this
GovTrack 13 (GovTrack, official government policy statements, “H.R. 1917: United States-Cuba Normalization Act of 2013,” 5/9/13, http://www.govtrack.us/congress/bills/113/hr1917/text)
(A)     EXTENSION OF NONDISCRIMINATORY ... products of Cuba.
Chinese steel is surging --- it hinges on access to imported nickel
Marron ’13 (Jim, Analyst @ Salva Report – a Minerals Market Consulting Firm, “Chinese Nickel Imports Take Market by Surprise,” August 21, https://salvareport.com/chinese-nickel-imports-take-market-by-surpise/)
China’s economic growth ...looking for solutions.

Lifting the embargo opens US markets to Cuban nickel
Krisher 5 (Ben Krisher, B.A. In political Science from University of Vermont, 12/6/5, “Lifting the U.S-Cuban Embargo: A Case of Current Events”, http://voices.yahoo.com/lifting-us-cuban-embargo-case-current-events-12262.html?cat=37)
A lifting of ... are plentiful.
US imports directly trade off with China
Burns ’10 (Stuart, Analyst @ Metal Miner, “Nickel the One Export Success Story in a Struggling Cuban Economy,” http://agmetalminer.com/2010/06/24/nickel-the-one-export-success-story-in-a-struggling-cuban-economy/)
On balance Cuba ... closed to them.

That’s wrecks the entire Chinese economy
Zhang ’12 (Changfu, Secretary General of China Iron and Steel Association, “THE ROLE OF THE IRON and STEEL INDUSTRY IN CHINA’S ¶ FUTURE ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT,” http://www.worldsteel.org/dms/internetDocumentList/downloads/media-centre/06-EN-Changfu-Zhang-CISA/Speech20at20the20E2809CLCA20and20SteelE2809D20Seminar-by20CISA.pdf)
Firstly, the iron ...and social stability
Chinese economic collapse kills CCP stability – causes massive refugee flows and escalates to war
Kane ’01 (Thomas M., Security Studies @ Hull, “China's Hunger,” Parameters, Fall, http://strategicstudiesinstitute.army.mil/pubs/parameters/articles/01autumn/Kane.htm)
The Price of Failure
Despite China's problems ... Spectacular examples include

CCP instability causes nuclear war
Rexing ’05 (San, Staff – Epoch Times, The CCP’s Last Ditch Gamble: Biological and Nuclear War, 8-5, http://english.epochtimes.com/news/5-8-5/30975.html)
What, then, is ...with their lives.

Tournament: Politics 1nc | Round: 1 | Opponent: Politics 1nc | Judge:
Syria means Debt Ceiling Will Pass
Reuters 8/28/13 (“Syria military action could lower temperature in U.S. budget battles,” http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/08/28/us-usa-fiscal-syria-idUSBRE97R06020130828)

Possible U.S. military s...Capitol Hill aide.

LINK

A U.S. debt ...higher interest rate.162

Extinction
Austin ‘09 (Michael, Resident Scholar – American Enterprise Institute, and Desmond Lachman, Resident Fellow – American Enterprise Institute, “The Global Economy Unravels”, Forbes, 3-6, http://www.aei.org/article/100187)

Conversely, global policymakers ... a big bang. 

OR

That causes massive program cuts, turns the aff
Masters 1/2/13 (Jonathan, Deputy Editor for the Council on Foreign Relations, “US Debt Ceiling Costs Consequences,” http://www.cfr.org/international-finance/us-debt-ceiling-costs-consequences/p24751)

The government must ...this statutory level.

Tournament: Rev K 1nc | Round: 1 | Opponent: Rev K 1nc | Judge:
The affirmative distances themselves from the real world within an academic cloister – Revolution is not writing an essay, revolution happens at the end of a gun barrel, and the negative is passing out rifles
The Honorable Chairman Mao Zedong in 1927 (report on an investigation of the peasant movement in hunan to CCP headquarters in Shanghai, Mao Zedong 1927)JFS
The main targets...firmly oppose it. 

Their leftist criticism traps us in a marsh where our freedoms are limited and there is no authentic freedom to ACT – only the action of our alternative, revolutionary violence, solves
Lenin 1902 (Vladimir, What is to be Done?)JFS
"Freedom of criticism" ...towards the marsh!

Tournament: Strats | Round: 1 | Opponent: Strats | Judge:
WAKE FOREST

Round 1 vs. Centennial PH
Aff: Fanatical Performative Agitation (Race)
1nc: Framework, Intersectionality K, Affirmation PIC
Block: Intersectionality K, Affirmation PIC
2nr: Affirmation PIC

Round 3 vs. Alpharetta CL
1nc: T-Conditional, Politics DA, Condition CP, Democracy DA, Imperialism K, North Korea War Good on case
Block: T-Conditional, Condition CP, Democracy DA, North Korea War Good, Politics DA
2nr: Democracy DA, Politics DA, North Korea War Good

Round 5 vs. Polytechnic AA
1nc: T-Economic T-Conditional, T-Remove Sanctions, Politics DA, Neolib K, Imperialism Turn on case
Block: Neolib K, T-Economic, T-Conditional
2nr: T-Economic, T-Conditional

NEW TRIER

Round 2 vs. Niles North WO
1nc: T-Conditional, USTR DA, Commissions CP, Afropessimism K, Heg Bad on Case
Block: Afropessimism K, Heg Bad
2nr: Afropessimism K

Round 4 vs. Groves CP
1nc: T-EE, Debt Ceiling DA, State PIC, Afropessimism K
Block: Afropessimism K
2nr: Afropessimism K

Round 6 vs. West Des Moines Valley SD
1nc: T-EE, T-Conditional, Commissions CP, Debt Ceiling DA, Afropessimism K, Aerospace Turn on Case
Block: Afropessimism K
2nr: Afropessimism K

Octos vs. GBS CM
1nc: USTR DA, T-Solely Economic, Nickel PIC, Nickel DA, Debt Ceiling DA, Ag Link Turns on Case, Heg Bad on Case
Block: USTR DA, Nickel PIC, Nickel DA, T-Solely Economic
2nr: USTR DA

MICHIGAN ROUND ROBIN

Round 3 vs. Niles West BN
1nc: T-Conditional, USTR DA, Immigration DA, Border CP, Neolib K
Block: T-Conditional, Immigration DA, Border CP
2nr: Immigration DA

Round 5 vs. Groves CP
1nc: Afropessimism K
Block: Afropessimism K
2nr: Afropessimism K

Round 7 vs. Whitney Young DS
1nc: Afropessimism K
Block: Afropessimism K, F Word K
2nr: Afropessimism K, F Word K

Round 9 vs. Wayzata HL
1nc: Afropessimism K
Block: Afropessimism K
2nr: Afropessimism K

MICHIGAN

Round 2 vs. Ransom Everglades BD
1nc: Framework, Negation Counteradvocacy, Disaster Porn on Case
Block: Framework, Negation Counteradvocacy, Disaster Porn on Case
2nr: Framework

Round 3 vs. Pace HP
1nc: USTR DA, Immigration DA, Nickel PIC, Nickel DA, ADV CP
Block: USTR DA, Nickel PIC, Nickel DA
2nr: Nickel DA, Prolif Bad, Condo Good

Round 6 vs. Seaholm HG
1nc: T-Conditional, Nickel DA, Imperialism K, Afropessimism K, Colonialism Turns on Case
Block: Afropessimism K, Colonialism Turns on Case
2nr: Afropessimism K, Colonialism Turns on Case

Doubles vs. GBN MT
1nc: T-Conditional, Immigration DA, Neolib K, OFAC CP, USTR DA, Drug Trade Good on Case
Block: T-Conditional, Immigration DA
2nr: Immigration DA

GLENBROOKS

Round 2 vs. Greenhill LM
1nc: T-Conditional, Iran Politics DA, USTR DA, Advantage CP
Block: Advantage CP, Iran Politics DA
2nr: Iran Politics DA

Round 4 vs. Northside ER
1nc: T-Trade, Imperialism K, Iran Politics DA, Legalize Marijuana CP
Block: Legalize Marijuana CP, Iran Politics DA
2nr: Iran Politics DA

Round 5 vs. College Prep FP
1nc: T-Trade, Afropessimism K, Add US CP w/ biopolitics NB, Ag DA, Small Arms DA on case, Gift DA on case
Block: Add US CP w/ biopolitics NB, Ag DA, Small Arms DA on case, Gift DA on case
2nr: Add US CP w/ biopolitics NB, Ag DA

LEXINGTON

Round 1 vs. Bronx Science DuMo
1nc: Energy Prices DA, IFR CP, Afropessimism K, Essentialism Turn on Case
Block: Afropessimism K, Essentialism Turn on Case
2nr: Afropessimism K

Round 4 vs. Groves CP
1nc: Afropessimism K
Block: Afropessimism K
2nr: Afropessimism K

Round 6 vs. Edgemont FH
1nc: Shunning, T-EE
Block: Shunning, T-EE
2nr: Shunning, T-EE

STANFORD

Round 2 vs. Capitol DD
1nc: T-EE, Rev K
Block: T-EE, Rev K
2nr: Rev K

Round 4 vs. Leland SA
1nc: T-QPQ, Imperialism K, Afropessimism K
Block: T-QPQ, Afropessimism K
2nr: T-QPQ, Afropessimism K

Round 5 vs. El Cerrito BM
1nc: T-QPQ, Imperialism K, Afropessimism K
Block: Afropessimism K
2nr: Afropessimism K

GEORGIA

Round 2 vs. Carrollton DT
1nc: Iran DA, NadBank CP, China DA, Free Market K
Block: China DA, NadBank CP, Iran DA
2nr: China DA

Round 3 vs. Johns Creek JD
1nc: Afropessimism K, Heg Bad on Case, DeDev on Case
Block: Afropessimism K
2nr: Afropessimism K

Round 5 vs. MBA BR
1nc: Afropessimism K, Rozo DA, Trafficking Discourse DA, Bilateral Partnership PIC with USTR DA Net Benefit
Block: Afropessimism K, Rozo DA
2nr: Afropessimism K

Octos vs. Alpharetta MH
1nc: Framework, Taking Clause CP, Meat PIC
Block: Taking Clause CP, Meat PIC
2nr: Meat PIC

Semis vs. Gulliver AS
1nc: T-Remove Sanctions, Taking Clause CP, State PIC with Rozo DA Net Benefit, Hospitality turns on case
Block: T-Remove Sanctions, Hospitality Turns on Case, Rozo DA, ICJ Net Benefit to the Taking Clause CP
2nr: T-Remove Sanctions

TOC

Round 2 vs. Cedar Ridge PR:
1nc: Framework, Case
Block: Framework, Case
2nr: Framework, Case

Tournament: Topicality 1nc | Round: 1 | Opponent: Topicality 1nc | Judge:
Contacts are engagement, but the plan is a cultural contact, not economic
Resnick 1 (Evan, Assistant Professor and coordinator of the United States Programme at RSIS, “Defining Engagement,” Journal of International Affairs, 0022197X, Spring2001, Vol. 54, Issue 2, http://web.ebscohost.com.turing.library.northwestern.edu/ehost/detail?sid=1b56e6b4-ade2-4052-9114-7d107fdbd01940sessionmgr12andvid=2andhid=24andbdata=JnNpdGU9ZWhvc3QtbGl2ZQ3d3d#db=mthandAN=4437301)

A REFINED DEFINITION ... and academic exchanges(n25) 

Economic engagement is a subset of conditional engagement and implies a tit-for-tat exchange
Shinn 96 James Shinn, C.V. Starr Senior Fellow for Asia at the CFR in New York City and director of the council’s multi-year Asia Project, worked on economic affairs in the East Asia Bureau of the US Dept of State, “Weaving the Net: Conditional Engagement with China,” pp. 9 and 11, google books
In sum, conditional ...Political Science Quarterly 105, no. 3 (1990), pp. 383-88).

Interpretation – Removing sanctions is a form of appeasement
Stern 6 (Martin, University of Maryland Graduate, Debunking detente, 11/27/06, http://www.diamondbackonline.com/article_56223e79-7009-56a3-8afe-5d08bfff6e08.html)

Appeasement is defined a...define the word.

Engagement and Appeasement are distinct strategies
Dueck 6 (Colin, assistant professor of political science at the University of Colorado, Boulder, and the author of Reluctant Crusaders: Power, Culture and Change in American Grand Strategy, “Strategies for Managing Rogue States,” Orbis Volume 50, Issue 2, Spring 2006, Pages 223–241, http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0030438706000056)

The term “rogue ...rollback, and non-entanglement.

Tournament: USTR DA 1nc | Round: 1 | Opponent: USTR DA 1nc | Judge:
Froman will pass the Trans-Pacific Partnership now- it’s a fight and uninterrupted negotiations are key
Sekiguchi 8/19 (Toko, reporter at the Wall Street Journal, U.S. Trade Representative Addresses Trade Conflicts With Japan Ahead Of TPP Brunei Talks, http://online.wsj.com/article/BT-CO-20130819-704151.html)

Top trade negotiators ... elimination of tariffs."

Froman’s agenda is fragile- any new additions tradeoff with vital negotiations
Needham 13 (Vicki, reporter at the Hill, Froman warns lack of resources may stymie trade agenda, http://thehill.com/blogs/on-the-money/1005-trade/312049-froman-warns-lack-of-resources-may-stymie-trade-agenda#ixzz2cf9UMngm, 7/18/13)

Michael Froman, the ... road, Froman said. 

TPP crucial to Japanese relations
Goto 9/6 (SHIHOKO, Northeast Asia associate of the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars' Asia Program in Washington. She was formerly senior business correspondent at United Press International, The trade deal that can't afford to be derailed, http://www.upi.com/Top_News/Analysis/Outside-View/2013/09/06/Outside-View-The-trade-deal-that-cant-afford-to-be-derailed/UPI-62561378440180/#ixzz2e7vbOD00)

Japanese Prime Minister ... the United States. 

US/Japan relations solves the most likely scenario for nuclear war
Nye et al., Former Deputy Secretary of State, 2K
Joseph S. Nye, Professor @ The John F. Kennedy School of Government @ Harvard University, Former Deputy Secretary of State, Former Assistant Secretary of Defense, Richard L. Armitage, Former Deputy Secretary of State, Michael J. Green, Advisor and Japan Chair @ The Center for Strategic and International Studies, Associate Professor @ The Walsh School of Foreign Service, Kurt M. Campbell, Fellow @ The Center for Strategic and International Studies, Frank Jannuzi, Minority Staff Member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, Edward J. Lincoln, Fellow @ The Brookings Institution, “The United States and Japan: Advancing Toward a Mature Partnership,” The Institute for National Strategic Studies, October 11th 2000, http://homepage2.nifty.com/moru/lib/nichibei-anpo/pdf/INSS20Special20Report.pdf 

Asia, in the ... the Persian Gulf.