Tournament: March Madness | Round: 1 | Opponent: Little Rock Central WilliamsWood | Judge:
Topicality
- Economic engagement requires a QPQ-the topic demands the plan must expand economic ties with an adversary to directly change target behavior
Kahler and Kastner 06 (Miles, Graduate School of International Relations and Pacific Studies at University of California, San Diego, and Scott, Department of Government and Politics at University of Maryland, “STRATEGIC USES OF ECONOMIC INTERDEPENDENCE: ENGAGEMENT POLICIES IN SOUTH KOREA, SINGAPORE, AND TAIWAN”, Journal of Peace Research)
Economic engagement – a … and international politics.
2. Violation- the affirmative participates in unconditional engagement with Cuba without requiring a behavioral or policy change in the target state. This is defined as economic appeasement, not economic engagement
Mastanduno 03 (Michael, Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, Nelson A. Rockefeller Professor of Government, B.A., Economics and Political Science, and Ph.D., Political Science, Princeton University, “The Strategy of Economic Engagement: Theory and Practice,” Economic Interdependence and International Conflict: New Perspectives on an Enduring Debate)
Our knowledge of … more so cumulatively.¶
Dev K
The idea of “economic engagement” that occurred during the Cold War to promote capitalism and spur the development of the Third World superimposed Western culture and power over the nations viewed as “impoverished" and poor.
Escobar, Professor of Anthropology at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 95
(Arturo, 1995, Encountering Development: The Making and Unmaking of the Third World, pg 35. RJ)
Finally, there was … discourse of development.
Development allows the state to expand biopolitical control
Dr. Kea Gorden Gorden earned her Ph.D. in Politics from the University of California, Santa Cruz, completed Master’s degree work in International Development at the School of International Service at American University, and earned her undergraduate degree from Cornell University. Her research is informed by her experiences as a Peace Corps volunteer in Zimbabwe and a Fulbright Research Fellow in South Africa, and her work is attendant to the network of guiding assumptions and constructions of difference that position “Africa” within discussions of poverty, security and resources. Her research interests lie in exploring the politics of democratization and development, with particular attention to the ways that discourses of secular modernity so often shape how these phenomena are understood. She is now engaged in a new research project questioning the ways that gendered cultural practices in South Africa impact the manner and form of women’s political participation and mobilization. “Depoliticizing Effects of International Development as the Praxis of Liberal Institutionalism” Field Statement #2 May 10th, 2004 YHKJDI
With the prevalence … capital from society.
Biopower makes life meaningless and mass extinction inevitable
Michel Foucault, professor of philosophy at the college de france, The History Of Sexuality: An Introduction, Volume 1, pg. 136-137,
1978,
Since the classical … phenomena of population.
The alternative is to promote change from the bottom-up - the aff’s top-down approach fails and leads to the domination of the so called “peasants”
Escobar, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Anthropology Professor, 95
(Arturo, Encountering Development: The Making and Unmaking of the Third World, p. 150-153, IC)
A number of … chapter will show.
CP
Text: The United States federal government should substantially increase economic engagement by lifting the embargo If and only if the government of Cuba agrees to release all political dissidents, reform its laws criminalizing dissent and dismantle the institutions that enforce them.
Cuba violates basic human rights of prisoners and dissidents
Steinberg, researcher in Human Rights Watch’s Americas Division, 09 Steinberg, November 2009, Human Rights Watch, “New Castro, Same Cuba,” http://www.hrw.org/sites/default/files/reports/cuba1109web_0.pdf, 7/7/13, AR
Cuba fails to … of total impunity.
Using the leverage of the plan best solves repression of political dissent in Cuba – they will respond to pressure
Steinberg, researcher in Human Rights Watch’s Americas Division, 09
Steinberg, November 2009, Human Rights Watch, “New Castro, Same Cuba,” http://www.hrw.org/sites/default/files/reports/cuba1109web_0.pdf, 7/7/13, AR
Worse still, Latin … pressured to do so.
RUSSIA SOI
A. Uniqueness – US Russia relations are high now but increasingly fragile
Sudarev, Doctor of Political Science, Professor of the European and American Countries’ History and Politics Department of the MGIMO University, 12
(Vladimir, 2/20/12, Russian International Affairs Council, “Is Russia returning to Latin America?” http://russiancouncil.ru/en/inner/?id_4=252#top, 7/6/13, ND)
Latin American region … nascent multi-polar world.
B. Link – Russia would hate the plan – they perceive the United States encroaching on it’s sphere of influence
Aron, Director of Russian Studies @ American Enterprise Institute, PhD from Columbia University, ‘13
(Leon, American Enterprise Institute, 3/11/13, “Structure and context in US-Russian relations at the outset of Barack Obama's second term”, http://www.aei.org/outlook/foreign-and-defense-policy/regional/europe/structure-and-context-in-us-russian-relations-at-the-outset-of-barack-obamas-second-term/, 7/6/13, PD)
After his election … Bashar al-Assad’s murderous regime.
That creates disputes and collapses relations
Merry, a former State Department and Pentagon official, is a senior associate at the American Foreign Policy Council in Washington, 09
(E. Wayne 5/22/09 New York Times, “A ‘Reset’ Is Not Enough” http://www.nytimes.com/2009/05/23/opinion/23iht-edmerry.html?_r=0 7/6/13 MG)
The Obama administration … Reciprocity is real.
A loss of power emboldens Russian nationalists
Nodia, Georgian political analyst who served as the Minister of Education and Science in the Cabinet of Georgia, 9
(April 2009, Ghia, “THE WOUNDS OF LOST EMPIRE”, Journal of Democracy, Vol. 20, Iss. 2; pg. 34, Proquest)
I believe that … much more besides.
Resurgence of Russian nationalism triggers World War III
Israelyan, Soviet Ambassador,’98
(Victor Israelyan was a Soviet ambassador, diplomat, arms control negotiator, and leading political scientist. The Washington Quarterly 1998 Winter )
The first and … fall down together." n12
Shunning
The Cuban government engages in multiple human rights violations such as torture, unexplained deaths, arrests of dissidents without any judicial orders, and more
Tamayo, Political Writer at the Miami Herald, 12
Juan O. Tamayo, 6/2/12, The Miami Herald, “UN panel blasts Cuba on human rights abuses,” http://www.miamiherald.com/2012/06/02/v-fullstory/2828219/un-panel-blasts-cuba-on-human.html, accessed 7-2-13, KB)
The U.N.’s Committee … Organs of State Security.”
Torture is an intrinsic evil that destroys human dignity—uniquely bad when government endorsed.
United States Conference of Catholic Bishops, 12
2012, USCCB, “TORTURE IS AN INTRINSIC EVIL,” http://www.usccb.org/issues-and-action/human-life-and-dignity/torture/upload/torture-is-an-intrinsic-evil-study-guide.pdf, accessed 7/9/13, MC
Torture destroys our … but “intrinsically evil.”
Vote Neg: Engagement with human rights abusers makes you complicit with Evil, no political end is worth this compromise.
Gordon and Gordon, senior lecturer at Ben-Gurion University, and independent Scholar, 95
(Haim and Rivca, “Sartre and Evil: Guidelines for a Struggle,” 1995, xvi-xvii, Questia, 7-2-13, JS)
Put differently, this … for freedom today.