Tournament: Washburn Rural | Round: 2 | Opponent: Silver Lake A | Judge: Maize Coach
note: we'll probably never read this again, this was pretty much a one time thing

Dicerolling

The affirmative posits themselves as masters of the theatre of policy, able to create a new reality which more closely resembles the ideal form which makes their plan defensible. This drive towards purification and explanation, this will to truth, is an attempt to escape suffering and creative potential which negates life.
Turanli 2k3 ~aydan, "nietzsche and the later wittgenstein", journal of nietzsche studies, issue 26, p. 61-2, muse~
The craving for absolutely general specifications results in doing metaphysics. Unlike Wittgenstein, Nietzsche
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the way out of the fly-bottle" (PI §309). 

And, the 1ac’s political statements are justification for their pathos of reaction; the aff is a valorization of resistance to capture their boredom. Activism gives them a feeling of revolution while keeping everything the same.
Nietzsche 1887 ~Fredrich, "The Gay Science," pg. 117-8~
The craving for suffering - When I think of the craving to do something,
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my friends, I have ventured to paint my happiness on the wall.

And, the affirmative attempts to extend this negative concept of mastery to the whole event of existence to eradicate chaos. Against such an ordering, you should affirm the free spirit as a toying with this slavish framework of life. It is the only positive choice.
Nietzsche 1873 ~"On Truth and Lies in a Nonmoral Sense", pg 7~
The free intellect copies human life, but it considers this life to be something
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may at least correspond creatively to the impression of the powerful present intuition.

And, the affirmative can always identify a particular threat to our existence. The
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boring creatures without much value. Their framework for life makes extinction desirable.
Nietzsche 1886 ~fredrich, "beyond good and evil", aph ~23 225, pg. 342~
Whether hedonism, or pessimism, or utilitarianism, or eudaimonianism (6)—all
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only this suffering which has created all the things which raise man up?

And, attempts to secure our experience of existence – physically or psychologically – suppress and internalize paranoiac fear. This produces life as a managerial project where we constantly struggle to prefect it through security. This fuels a ressentiment that negates beauty and life.
Der Derian 95 ~JAMES, ON SECURITY, PG. 29~
The will to power, then, should not be confused with a hobbesian perpetual
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owes this artificial strength to the illusion of being protected by a god."

And, the alternative is to affirm destiny and chance. You should take the risk of exposing yourself to violent impacts, abandon the desire for mastery, and embrace the unknown and unfamiliar aspects of life by refusing to engage the 1ac. This risks danger but your mortality is something that is certain anyway. The alternative is the only way to live life eventfully and adventurously, through a rolling of the dice.
Deleuze 83 ~GILLES, "NIETZSCHE AND PHILOSOPHY", PG. 25-27~
The game has two moments which are those of a dicethrow — the dice that
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the repetition of a dicethrow by the nature of the fatally obtained number. 

And, to affirm chance and the tragic in life is to learn to see the best in the worst of what is necessary. This is liberation of the free intellect from the joyless concept of life in the 1ac.
Deleuze 83 ~GILLES, "NIETZSCHE AND PHILOSOPHY", P 17-18~
Dionysus affirms all that appears, "even the most bitter suffering", and appears
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" (VP IV 50). Tragedy — frank, dynamic, gaiety.

Tournament: Washburn Rural | Round: 3 | Opponent: Shawnee Heights LM | Judge: Tanner Fordham
Asia pivot is the central focus now, but the plan forces a transition – we need to downgrade other regional concerns
Hon 9-11-13 Chua Chin Hon, staff writer, The Straits Times, Asia News Network, Singapore Signs of a new push in US pivot to the Asia-Pacific September 11, 2013 1:00 am http://www.nationmultimedia.com/opinion/Signs-of-a-new-push-in-US-pivot-to-the-Asia-Pacifi-30214568.html-http://www.nationmultimedia.com/opinion/Signs-of-a-new-push-in-US-pivot-to-the-Asia-Pacifi-30214568.html
The United States may have to re-draw its commitment to Asia in the
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Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, a Washington-based think-tank.
 
The Asia Pivot will encourage stronger relations between India and China, preventing future conflict between the two countries
Franz-Stefan Gady, (military analyst and world affairs commentator), 3/18/13, Huffington Post, and#34;consequences of obama’s asia pivot,and#34; http://www.huffingtonpost.com/franzstefan-gady/obama-china-india_b_2853600.html-http://www.huffingtonpost.com/franzstefan-gady/obama-china-india_b_2853600.html
In the kaleidoscopic world of power politics in Asia, the United States’ pivot to
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of a deadlocked alliance — little growth of both Indian and Chinese power.
Sino-Indian war is the highest risk for nuclear conflict.
Sullivan 10 – research fellow @ AEI
Tim Sullivan, research fellow and program manager at the American Enterprise Institutes Centre for Defence Studies. and#34;The next nuclear arms raceand#34;. Pakistan Observer. 9/29/10. Lexis.
India and Pakistan are the two countries most likely to engage in nuclear war or
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on potentially vulnerable overseas trade: that creates the conditions for heightened insecurity.

Tournament: Iowa Caucus | Round: 2 | Opponent: Dowling MT | Judge: Mason Owen
====US-Brazil relations high— but respect key.====
Quitani and Moody 9/26 (Ana and Mary, 9/26/13, The Heritage Foundation, "U.S.-Brazil Relations: Where Do We Go from Here?", http://blog.heritage.org/2013/09/26/u-s-brazil-relations-where-do-we-go-from-here/-http://blog.heritage.org/2013/09/26/u-s-brazil-relations-where-do-we-go-from-here/, ALT)

Aside from the potential economic costs of a fallout with Brazil, the political costs
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power and recognize that increased trade and economic cooperation would benefit both countries.

Real or perceived unilateral US interventions in Latin America kill relations.

Rothcopf 9 (David, Council on Foreign Relations’ Task Force on Latin America, Center For American Progress, "The Possibility of Partnership", http://www.americanprogress.org/issues/2009/03/pdf/brazil.pdf-http://www.americanprogress.org/issues/2009/03/pdf/brazil.pdf, ALT)

Any real or perceived interference in the region by the United States would greatly upset
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to interject itself as a third party with a third point of view.

Turns case- relations key to Amazon (optional: key to stop warming)

Meyer, Analyst in Latin American Affairs, 2/27/13 (Peter Congressional research service: "Brazil-U.S. Relations" http://www.fas.org/sgp/crs/row/RL33456.pdf-http://www.fas.org/sgp/crs/row/RL33456.pdf Date accessed: 7/6/13)KG
The Amazon basin spans the borders of eight countries and is the most biodiverse tract
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the Amazon such as the Atlantic Rainforest, Caatinga, and Cerrado ecosystems.

====And, Amazon destruction causes extinction====
Takacs 96 - Ph.D. in science and technology studies @ Cornell, Professor of Environmental Humanities, Institute for Earth Systems Science and Policy, California State University, Monterey Bay, David, The Idea of Biodiversity: Philosophies of Paradise, p. 200-1~
"Habitat destruction and conversion are eliminating species at such a frightening pace that extinction
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the famines could lead to a thermonuclear war, which could extinguish civilization.""

Tournament: Washburn Rural | Round: 3 | Opponent: Shawnee Heights LM | Judge: Tanner Fordham

Counterplan Text: The People’s Republic of China should plantext

Solvency – Chinese investment solves 100 of the case – efficient and reliable.

• • Gallagher Associate Professor of International Relations 2013.
     (BA, Northeastern University; MA, PhD, Tufts University) Specialization: Economic Development, Trade and Investment Policy, International Environmental Policy, Latin America. 30 May 2013 ~Kevin, http://www.guardian.co.uk/global-development/poverty-matters/2013/may/30/latin-america-risky-chinese-dragon~~
    The Chinese president, Xi Jinping, travels to the US and Latin America this
    AND
    and environmental protection, this new source of finance could bring great risk.

Tournament: Washburn Rural | Round: 3 | Opponent: Shawnee Heights LM | Judge: Tanner Fordham

1NC China DA

Relations between the United States and China are strong now but mutual threat reduction is critical to sustainable cooperation

Gross, senior associate at The Pacific Forum, Center for Strategic and International Studies, 6-4
(David Gross, "Creating a New Model for U.S.-China Relations at the Obama-Xi Summit", http://www.huffingtonpost.com/donald-gross/creating-a-new-model-for-_b_3383480.html)

This week’s summit meeting between Chinese President Xi Jinping and President Barack Obama offers a
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American cooperation, and significantly expands trade and investment between the two countries.

US engagement in Latin America crushes relations – causes crowd out

Ellis, professor of national security studies at the Center for Hemispheric Defense Studies, 12
~R. Evan, May 2012, Center for Hemispheric Defense Studies, "The United States, Latin America and China: A ’Triangular Relationship’?", http://www.thedialogue.org/PublicationFiles/IAD8661_China_Triangular0424v2e-may.pdf, Accessed 7/2/13, ML~

At the political level, US engagement with Latin American ¶ countries has impacted the
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States blocked it from acquiring a comparable ¶ aircraft from the Czech Republic.

Relations are key to solve a US-China war

Lawrence, Specialist in Asian Affairs, 13 
~Susan V. June 14, Congressional Research Service U.S.-China Relations: Policy Issues http://www.fas.org/sgp/crs/row/R41108.pdf RC~

Hanging over the relationship is the larger question of whether, as China grows in
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"appear to ¶ be attributable directly to the Chinese government and military."

US China conflict could escalate to nuclear war – improving relations is the only solution

Wittner 11, Professor of History emeritus at SUNY/Albany, 12
~Dr. Lawrence Wittner 11/10/12, Huffington Post http://www.huffingtonpost.com/lawrence-wittner/nuclear-war-china_b_1116556.html)~~

While nuclear weapons exist, there remains a danger that they will be used.
AND
that of the world, they should be working to encourage these policies.

Tournament: Wichita East | Round: 5 | Opponent: Washburn Rural NW | Judge: Huang

China DA 1NC

China is increasing its energy programs in mexico now

Zhu Zhe, 6/5/13, China Daily, "China, Mexico boost relations," http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/china/2013xivisit/2013-06/05/content_16573196.htm-http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/china/2013xivisit/2013-06/05/content_16573196.htm

China and Mexico, two of the world’s emerging powers, "relaunched" their
AND
competitive manufacturing industry, especially in the wake of China’s rising labor costs.

Mexico and China just upgraded their relationship

Xinhua 6/5 (China, Mexico enter comprehensive strategic partnership; english.cpc.people.com.cn/206972/206976/8272224.html; kdf)
MEXICO CITY - Chinese President Xi Jinping and his Mexican counterpart Enrique Pena Nieto Tuesday
AND
through more effective mechanisms so as to achieve common development, he said.

The US will use energy policy to crowd out China

Wallwork 2013 
(Lucy ~graduate of Durham University and currently works as a research associate at Berlin-based OpenOil~; What Chinese investment in Latin America means for the US energy sector; www.multibriefs.com/briefs/exclusive/what_does_chinese_investment_us_energy.html~23.UdMpS_nviSo; kdf)

So what of the operations of U.S.-based multinationals in South America
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scrabbling around at the bottom of the garden is unlikely to go unnoticed. 

Crowding out China destabilizes Latin America and hurts the US

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)

So what does China want exactly in entering Latin American? Is it to obtain
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influence that the United States has accumulated over two centuries in the region.

Instability causes Extinction

Manwaring ’5 (Max G., Retired U.S. Army colonel and an Adjunct Professor of International Politics at Dickinson College, venezuela’s hugo chávez, bolivarian socialism, and asymmetric warfare, October 2005, pg. PUB628.pdf)

President Chávez also understands that the process leading to¶ state failure is the most
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their associated¶ problems endanger global security, peace, and prosperity.65

Tournament: Wichita East | Round: 2 | Opponent: Wichita NorthWest | Judge: 

China

US-China relations high

China Daily Yesterday
Agencies in Washington, 10/10/2013, China Daily, "Obama remarks show China relationship high on agenda", http://www.chinadailyasia.com/news/2013-10/10/content_15092036.html, 10/10/2013, ~23BD
When US President Barack Obama said, "I am sure the Chinese don’t mind
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share its interests with other countries, which gains trust among the region."¶ 

A. Oil investment causes China freakout
Levi and Clayton ’12 ~Michael Levi is the Michael A. Levi is the David M. Rubenstein Senior Fellow for Energy and the Environment and Director of the Program on Energy Security and Climate Change at the Council on Foreign Relations, and Blake Clayton is a Fellow for Energy and National Security at the CFR, "The Surprising Sources of Oil’s Influence," Survival, Vol. 54, No. 6, online~

What about fights over investment? There is no question that cross-border investment
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and Burma, where Western sanctions have kept Western oil majors at bay.

Relations are key to solve a US-China war

Lawrence, Specialist in Asian Affairs, 13 
~Susan V. June 14, Congressional Research Service U.S.-China Relations: Policy Issues http://www.fas.org/sgp/crs/row/R41108.pdf RC~

Hanging over the relationship is the larger question of whether, as China grows in
AND
"appear to ¶ be attributable directly to the Chinese government and military."

US China conflict could escalate to nuclear war – improving relations is the only solution

Wittner 11, Professor of History emeritus at SUNY/Albany, 12
~Dr. Lawrence Wittner 11/10/12, Huffington Post http://www.huffingtonpost.com/lawrence-wittner/nuclear-war-china_b_1116556.html)~~

While nuclear weapons exist, there remains a danger that they will be used.
AND
that of the world, they should be working to encourage these policies.

Tournament: Topeka | Round: 1 | Opponent: BVNW | Judge: D Minor

Linear scenario planning results in extinction – try or die for the K because we link turn every impact

Saperstein 97 professor of physics and fellow – Center for Peace and Conflict Studies @ Wayne State University, ’97 (Alvin M, "Complexity, Chaos, and National Security Policy: Metaphors or Tools?" in Complexity, Global Politics, and National Security, eds. David S. Alberts and Thomas J. Czerwinski, National Defense University)
The goals of the national Security policy maker are not so obvious in a Prigoginian
AND
, the "perfect" is often the enemy of the "good." 

The alternative is to Vote Negative to reject linear scenario planning in favor of complex theoretical analysis—unconditionally inserting complexity analysis into the simulation creates better policy planning

Rosenau, professor emeritus of international affairs – George Washington University, ’97
(James, "Many Damn Things Simultaneously: Complexity Theory and World Affairs," in Complexity, Global Politics, and National Security, eds. David S. Alberts and Thomas J. Czerwinski, National Defense University)
In short, there are strict limits within which theorizing based on the premises of
AND
a guide both to comprehending a fragmegrated world and theorizing within its limits.

Tournament: Iowa Caucus | Round: 2 | Opponent: Dowling MT | Judge: Mason Owen

CP

CP Text: The United States federal government should _if and only if the federal government of the Federative Republic of Brazil approves of the aforementioned agreement.

Brazil will say yes—cooperation over Latin American economic integration proves

Hakim, president emeritus and senior fellow of the Inter-American Dialogue, 10
~Peter, 10-21-2010, Inter-American Dialogue, "US-Brazil Relations: Expect More Conflict", http://www.thedialogue.org/page.cfm?pageID=3226pubID=2490-http://www.thedialogue.org/page.cfm?pageID=3226pubID=2490, accessed 7-2-2013, GSK~ 

Although the US and Brazil will surely collide on other hemispheric questions in the years
AND
governments have taken very different approaches to addressing the challenge that Chavez represents.

Tournament: Contact | Round: 1 | Opponent: Contact | Judge:
1N, Jack Werner: jvdubz@gmail.com
2N, Parker Mitchell: park.ben.mitchell@gmail.com

Tournament: Iowa Caucus | Round: 2 | Opponent: Dowling MT | Judge: Mason Owen

K

Power, control, and subjugation are not simply exercised through prohibition and negativity but through the positive production of docile and normalized subjects. The affirmative’s economic olive branch is a ruse for the discursive production of "backwards" populations to be "developed" under the tutelage of US imperial hegemony, a move destined for failure.

DuBois 91 (Marc, "The Governance of the Third World: A Foucauldian Perspective on Power Relations in Development", Alternatives: Global, Local, Political, Vol. 16, No. 1, Winter 1991, ~CL~)

Foucault’s definition of power is one of his most controversial concepts, and perhaps his
AND
(the solution), dooming many well-intended development efforts to failure.

Policies focused on developing Cuba justify endless invasions and ensure democratic backsliding

Dr. LARS SCHOULTZ Professor of Political Science at UNC received his B.A
AND
. 1-19 published by the University of Pittsburg Press YHKJDI

Although U.S. forces returned in 1912 to quash a complex Afro-
AND
House of Representatives emphasized the two nations’ ’’common ideals of democracy.’’32

Development discourse in Cuba creates flawed, racist democracy—turns the case.

Dr. LARS SCHOULTZ Professor of Political Science at UNC received his B.A
AND
. 1-19 published by the University of Pittsburg Press YHKJDI

Today’s uplifting effort, which focuses on promoting democracy, carries on a tradition established
AND
for complete independence: ’’In many ways they are like children.’’

The imperial and biopolitical politics at the heart of development is responsible for omnipresent violence, market slavery, cultural destruction, and genocide in the name of globalized hegemony

Escobar 04 (Arturo, Ph.D Development Philosophy, Policy, and Planning UC Berkeley, ’Beyond the Third World: imperial globality, global coloniality, and anti-globalisation social movements’, 2004)

One of the main consequences, for Santos, of the collapse of emancipation into
AND
diced identities’ and the transformation of cultures of solidarity into cultures of destruction.

The alternative is to reject the affirmative as a criticism of development discourse. The hegemony of development is not neutral or natural; localized criticism is necessary to move beyond the Western economic paradigms responsible for so much oppression and suffering.

DuBois 91 
(Marc, "The Governance of the Third World: A Foucauldian Perspective on Power Relations in Development", Alternatives: Global, Local, Political, Vol. 16, No. 1, Winter 1991, ~CL~)

In recent years, a full-blown "crisis" situation has been ushered
AND
corrupt the self-evidence of development in its masquerade as natural law.

Tournament: Wichita East | Round: 4 | Opponent: Blue Valley North Womack-Yang | Judge: E Cox

Power, control, and subjugation are not simply exercised through prohibition and negativity but through the positive production of docile and normalized subjects. The affirmative’s economic olive branch is a ruse for the discursive production of "backwards" populations to be "developed" under the tutelage of US imperial hegemony, a move destined for failure.

DuBois 91 (Marc, "The Governance of the Third World: A Foucauldian Perspective on Power Relations in Development", Alternatives: Global, Local, Political, Vol. 16, No. 1, Winter 1991, ~CL~)

Foucault’s definition of power is one of his most controversial concepts, and perhaps his
AND
(the solution), dooming many well-intended development efforts to failure.

Oil companies develop communities for profit, constructing a capitalist oligarchy that takes precedent over local communities.

Emeka 10 
~Wokoro, professor of humanities at UT; "Beyond petroleum production to community development"https://litigationessentials.lexisnexis.com/webcd/app?action=DocumentDisplay26crawlid=126doctype=cite26docid=5+Tex.+J.+Oil+Gas+26+Energy+L.+32326srctype=smi26srcid=3B1526key=59a0e28437d135773ce3a11c237f7b8f    JW jedi~

International petroleum contracts involve three parties: (1) host ¶ governments that own
AND
and central governments in an attempt to manage reputational  risk and ensure security.

This drive for infinite profits compels oil exploration and production—means spills are inevitable.

The Pew Charitable Trusts 2010
"Exploration 26 Development Risks." Ocean Policies 26 Arctic Conservation. Web. 12 July 2013. http://oceansnorth.org/exploration-development-risks. LL

What Causes Spills? Where there are people, there are mistakes. The causes
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to the potential risk of oil spills beyond the oil and gas industry.

Empirics prove- companies will sacrifice the environment to gain more profit

"PressTV - BP’s Greed for More Profit Has Caused Oil Spill Disaster, Court Hears."PressTV - BP’s Greed for More Profit Has Caused Oil Spill Disaster, Court Hears. PressTV, 26 Feb. 2013. Web. 12 July 2013. http://www.presstv.com/detail/2013/02/26/290811/bps-greed-causes-oil-spill-disaster/.

US government prosecutors spent a tense day in a federal court in New Orleans over
AND
of Mexico has been the worst environmental disaster the US has ever experienced. 

The imperial and biopolitical politics at the heart of development is responsible for omnipresent violence, market slavery, cultural destruction, and genocide in the name of globalized hegemony

Escobar 04 (Arturo, Ph.D Development Philosophy, Policy, and Planning UC Berkeley, ’Beyond the Third World: imperial globality, global coloniality, and anti-globalisation social movements’, 2004)

One of the main consequences, for Santos, of the collapse of emancipation into
AND
diced identities’ and the transformation of cultures of solidarity into cultures of destruction.

The alternative is to reject the affirmative as a criticism of development discourse. The hegemony of development is not neutral or natural; localized criticism is necessary to move beyond the Western economic paradigms responsible for so much oppression and suffering.

DuBois 91 
(Marc, "The Governance of the Third World: A Foucauldian Perspective on Power Relations in Development", Alternatives: Global, Local, Political, Vol. 16, No. 1, Winter 1991, ~CL~)

In recent years, a full-blown "crisis" situation has been ushered
AND
corrupt the self-evidence of development in its masquerade as natural law.

Tournament: Wichita East | Round: 5 | Opponent: Washburn Rural NW | Judge: Huang

ESPEC 1NC

Interp – they must specify types of renewables in their plantext, kills counterplan ground, vote neg for fairness and education.

Tournament: Washburn Rural | Round: 5 | Opponent: SMNW | Judge: 

TEXT:  THE UNITED STATES FEDERAL GOVERNMENT SHOULD PHASE-OUT ITS ECONOMIC EMBARGO ON CUBA

Solves the case 26 quick reforms would destabilize Cuba.  Hardliners will try to pick a war with the U.S.

David A. Perez, Spring, ’10, JD Yale Law School, currently serving as The Legal Advisor to the State Department, "America’s Cuba Policy: The Way Forward: A Policy Recommendation for the U.S. State Department," Harvard Latino Law Review, 13 Harv. Latino L. Rev. 187, JTJEDI
Ultimately, closed regimes survive not because they are constantly adapting to changed circumstances,
AND
rapidly changing circumstances, which may then open the Pandora’s box of transformation.
Reformists will quickly gain credibility in the government and among the people if their policies
AND
these measures, it would only destabilize the situation and encourage more violence.
Once the political situation has stabilized, violence is likely to subside, and the
AND
transition, however far along it may be, would be strategically catastrophic.

Tournament: Washburn Rural | Round: 3 | Opponent: Shawnee Heights LM | Judge: Tanner Fordham

PIC 1NC

Plan: The United States federal government should provide microfinancial services to rural and impoverished parts of mexico, ensuring that none of the funds go to jatropha biofuels.
Jatropha biofuels are receiving limited local development now but the plan increases investment
Andres Schipani, 8/2/2011, Financial Times, and#34;MExican biofuel: ready for takeoff?and#34; http://blogs.ft.com/beyond-brics/2011/08/02/mexican-biofuel-ready-for-take-off/?~~23axzz2Y5iU5EMD-http://blogs.ft.com/beyond-brics/2011/08/02/mexican-biofuel-ready-for-take-off/?

However, Jatropha may get a second lease on life. On Monday, Aeroméxico
AND
policies for proper production; but there is still some way to go.and#34;
Jatropha plantations displace local communities and destroy their way of life
F.O.E.I., December 2010, (Friends of the Earth International), and#34;Jatropha: money doesn’t grow on trees,and#34; Issue 120, p. 11

Even if companies only used marginal lands to grow jatropha,¶ most land labelled as
AND
¶ without displacing or affecting local populations.and#34; International¶ Land Coalition).105

We must respect cultural diversity or face extinction.

Marglin, Professor of Economics at Harvard University, 1990. ~Stephen A., Dominating Knowledge: Development, Culture, and Resistance, 1. Towards the Decolonization of the Mind, Pg. 16-17~
The positive case for exploring these options is, or ought to be, obvious
AND
that the principal agents of modernization are Westernized indigenous elites rather than Westerners.

MSPEC 1NC

Interp – they must specify types of microfinance in their plantext, kills counterplan ground, vote neg for fairness and education.

Tournament: Iowa Caucus | Round: 5 | Opponent: West Des Moines Valley | Judge: 

Nietzsche

The Affirmative regurgitates past pain and suffering to show themselves as a moral option in an immoral world. This action is a stimulant used to mask real pain with surplus enjoyment, creating charred men where we feel but are not alive.
Zupancic 03 ~alenka, "The Shortest Shadow: Nietzsche’s Philosophy of the Two," 47-49~
It might seem that the notion of the ascetic ideal, as well as Nietzsche’s
AND
it is that it mobilizes and motivates souls, and provides them with enjoyment

The desire to mask suffering with enjoyment is the ascetic ideal par excellence. the aff’s morals are employed to make on feel accomplished by their personal restraints.
Zupancic 03 ~alenka, "The Shortest Shadow: Nietzsche’s Philosophy of the Two," 47-49~
The ascetic ideal places the Real of pleasure in enjoyment (and posits enjoyment of
AND
neurosis, in which Freud recognizes the paradigm of "religious" thinking.  

Our alternative is to forget about the suffering in the 1ac. the pain cited by the 1ac is only attended to by the memory of the 1ac to further asceticism, only a break away from these memories solves.
Zupancic 03 ~alenka, "The Shortest Shadow: Nietzsche’s Philosophy of the Two," 57-60~
This is perhaps the moment to examine in more detail what Nietzschean "forgetting"
AND
—precisely through its "closure"—the possibility of a new one.

Tournament: Washburn Rural | Round: 5 | Opponent: SMNW | Judge: 

No solvency- the embargo is not a thing.  Their solvency advocates talk about Helms Burton Act, but other literature discusses restrictions such as the Terrorist Designation.

Tournament: Wichita East | Round: 2 | Opponent: Wichita NorthWest | Judge: 

Russia Oil

Russia’s economy is on the brick – high prices create bottom up capital infusion that sustains the Russian economy

Baden 11 (Ben, Money and Business reporter at U.S. News 26 World Report. Read more: http://www.businessinsider.com/author/ben-baden~~23ixzz1gSZPAUZO 4/5/11, " Russia Stocks Soar on Rising Oil Prices When gas prices move higher, the Russian economy generally benefits", http://money.usnews.com/money/personal-finance/mutual-funds/articles/2011/04/05/russia-stocks-soar-on-rising-oil-prices-http://money.usnews.com/money/personal-finance/mutual-funds/articles/2011/04/05/russia-stocks-soar-on-rising-oil-prices

Of the rapidly growing "BRIC" countries—Brazil, Russia, India,
AND
Fund (EUROX). "The dynamics are pretty favorable for the ruble."

Plan causes oil price decline—overproduction and wipes out price control mechanisms
Butler 2013(Nick, Financial Times Energy Analyst, March 5, "Venezuela and the oil market after Chávez", http://blogs.ft.com/nick-butler/2013/03/05/venezuela-and-the-oil-market-after-chavez/?)

In the meantime, any new government will be desperate to sustain revenue and to
AND
guarantee that such policies or such an outcome will be maintained for long.

High prices key to the Russian economy —- diversification is bad.
Feifer 11 (Gregory, Editor and Senior Correspondent for Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty, Russia’s Image as Energy Superpower Benefitting from Middle East Crisis, http://oilprice.com/Energy/Energy-General/Russia-s-Image-as-Energy-Superpower-Benefitting-from-Middle-East-Crisis.html)
With U.S.-led fighter jets pounding military assets in oil-rich
AND
elected again — he could remain in office for the next 12 years. 

Extinction
Filger 9 (Sheldon, Columnist and Founder – Global EconomicCrisis.com, "Russian Economy Faces Disasterous Free Fall Contraction", http://www.huffingtonpost.com/sheldon-filger/russian-economy-faces-dis_b_201147.html-http://www.huffingtonpost.com/sheldon-filger/russian-economy-faces-dis_b_201147.html)

In Russia, historically, economic health and political stability are intertwined to a degree
AND
the financial impact of the Global Economic Crisis is its least dangerous consequence.

Tournament: Topeka | Round: 4 | Opponent: WaRu | Judge: 

Text: The United States federal government should implement S. 812

The impact is environment and arctic conflict – only S. 812 solves

Goldwyn 13 David L. Goldwyn¶ Nonresident Senior Fellow, Foreign Policy, Energy Security Initiative, president of Goldwyn Global Strategies, LLC, an international energy advisory consultancy, and a nonresident senior fellow with the Energy Security Initiative at the Brookings Institution. Served as the U.S. State Department’s special envoy and coordinator for international energy affairs from 2009-2011, reporting directly to Secretary of State Hillary Clinton. In this position, Goldwyn conceived and developed the Global Shale Gas Initiative and the Energy Governance and Capacity Initiative, led ministerial-level energy dialogues with Angola, Canada, China, India, Iraq, Mexico, Nigeria and Brazil, and co-chaired a regional biofuels initiative with Brazil. AND Neil R. Brown, Senior Advisor, Goldwyn Global Strategies AND Cory R. Gill¶ Associate, Goldwyn Global Strategies, (Now those are some qualifications) The Brookings Institute, "Time to Implement the U.S.-Mexico Transboundary Hydrocarbons Agreement — Congress: Drop the Poison Pill" 8-14-13 http://www.brookings.edu/blogs/up-front/posts/2013/08/14-us-mexico-transboundary-hydrocarbon-goldwyn-brown-gill ~acc. 8-26-13~ PBM SME
The United States and Mexico concluded a transboundary hydrocarbons agreement, officially titled the "
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exorcize the poison pill so they can all be realized without further delay.

Escalating tensions in the Arctic go nuclear

Cohen 10, Ariel. "From Russian Competition to Natural Resources Access: Recasting U.S. Arctic Policy." Heritage Foundation, 15 June 2010. Web. 26 June 2012. http://thf_media.s3.amazonaws.com/2010/pdf/bg2421.pdf.
The military is an important dimension of Moscow’s Arctic push. The policy calls for
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its military strategy to meet  threats to the country’s interests in the Arctic.

The result of unchecked environmental destruction is extinction

Hedges 2 Chris Hedges ~Chris Hedges, whose column is published Mondays on Truthdig, spent nearly two decades as a foreign correspondent in Central America, the Middle East, Africa and the Balkans. He has reported from more than 50 countries and has worked for The Christian Science Monitor, National Public Radio, The Dallas Morning News and The New York Times, for which he was a foreign correspondent for 15 years. Hedges was part of the team of reporters at The New York Times awarded a Pulitzer Prize in 2002 for the paper’s coverage of global terrorism. He also received the Amnesty International Global Award for Human Rights Journalism in 2002~7/19/2010 (American Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist, and war correspondent specializing in American and Middle Eastern politics and societies. ) "Calling All Future Eaters." http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/calling_all_future-eaters_20100719/
The human species during its brief time on Earth has exhibited a remarkable capacity to
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died. It is time to start getting out of the coal mines." 

Interp – they must specify which sections of HR 1613 that they pass, key to disad and counterplan ground, checks moving target, voter for fairness and education

====Interpretation – the affirmative must show a clear barrier to the passage of the plan====

Double-Bind, either our off case links or their advantages are solved by the squo

Martin and Wood ’13
Jeremy Martin, director of the Energy Program at the Institute of the Americas at the University of California, San Diego, Duncan Wood, director of the Mexico Institute at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars and professor for 17 years in Mexico and previously was director of the International Relations Program at the Instituto Tecnológico Autónomo de México, "U.S. Should Act Quickly on Transboundary Hydrocarbon Agreement With Mexico," 03 May 2013, http://www.worldpoliticsreview.com/articles/12923/u-s-should-act-quickly-on-transboundary-hydrocarbon-agreement-with-mexico
In the United States, meanwhile, progress stalled for more than a year.
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a win-win for both Mexico and the U.S. ¶ 

Voting issue

Allows them to spike out of our disads by saying they’ll happen in just a few weeks anyway

Vote neg on presumption – 100 chance squo solves all their advantages.

Tournament: Iowa Caucus | Round: 4 | Opponent: Wayzata KD | Judge: 

The Embargo currently prevents U.S. participation in Cuban sex tourism

Robert Cribb, et al, March 17, ’13, Jennifer Quinn and Julian Sher, and Juan O. Tamayo, "U.S. child-sex tourism to Cuba hardly exists," Miami Herald, http://www.miamiherald.com/2013/03/17/3291012/us-child-sex-tourism-to-cuba-hardly.html-http://www.miamiherald.com/2013/03/17/3291012/us-child-sex-tourism-to-cuba-hardly.html, ACC. 5-26-2013, JTJEDI
An odd combination of Washington’s trade embargo on Cuba and tough U.S. laws on sex tourism has kept down the number of U.S. travelers who fly to the island to abuse underage girls and boys.
U.S. residents account for an estimated — and chilling — 25 percent of child-sex tourism worldwide, said Miami-based FBI Special Agent Heather Armstrong, a member of the Crimes against Children Squad.
About one-quarter of the child-sex tourists in Cambodia surveyed about 10 years ago were from the United States and Canada, said Carol Smolenski, head of the U.S. branch of the global monitoring group End Child Prostitution and Trafficking.
And U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement says its Operation Predator led to the arrest of a record 1,655 child pornographers, child-sex tourists and facilitators, human smugglers and traffickers of minors in fiscal year 2012. Florida accounted for 406 of the arrests, including 81 in the Miami district.
Yet U.S. child-sex tourism to an island just 90 miles off the coast of Florida falls far short of the levels of exploitation by Canadians and Spaniards found by a joint investigation by the Toronto Star and the El Nuevo Herald.

Cuba is the new hotbed for sex tourism.  Girls and boys are as young four are used as prostitutes
Robert Cribb, et al, March 17, ’13, Jennifer Quinn and Julian Sher, and Juan O. Tamayo,  "How Cuba became the newest hotbed for tourists craving sex with minors," Miami Herald, ACC. 5-26-2013, http://www.miamiherald.com/2013/03/16/v-fullstory/3289971/how-cuba-became-the-newest-hotbed.html-http://www.miamiherald.com/2013/03/16/v-fullstory/3289971/how-cuba-became-the-newest-hotbed.html, JTJEDI

Foreign tourists, especially Canadians and Spaniards, are travelling to Cuba in surprising numbers for sex — and not just with adult prostitutes. They are finding underage girls and boys, a joint investigation by The Toronto Star and El Nuevo Herald has found.
Havana’s conspicuous scenes of street-level prostitution are the outward face of a hidden prostitution trade in minors, some as young as four, some with families complicit in their exploitation, the newspapers found.
Cuba holds unique allure for Western sex tourists. It is closer and cheaper than other sex destinations, such as Thailand. And HIV rates are lower than in other Caribbean sex tourism hotspots, such as the Dominican Republic or Haiti.
While the size of the island’s underage sex market remains a mystery — the communist government denies it is a problem and fosters the image of an island free of the social ills that plague other nations — it clearly goes on.

We must reject Cuban sex tourism as the largest form of evil and coercion

Keefer 6 (Colonel Sandra L. Keefer, Retired US Army Colonel and Consultant at Booze Allen Hamilton, Published:3/15/6 Accessed: 7/9/13HUMAN TRAFFICKING AND THE IMPACT ON NATIONAL SECURITY FOR THE UNITED STATES, http://www.dtic.mil/dtic/tr/fulltext/u2/a448573.pdf)//mw
We are also taking action to help the victims, and that’s a really important
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sex tourism – and many nations in that region have made progress.34
There is also a problem ninety miles off our shores, where the regime of
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Canadian tourists contributed to the sharp increase in child prostitution in Cuba.35

Lifting the Embargo will increase sex trafficking – the government is empirically willing to hide it.

CIA 5/15/13  Central Intelligence Agency. (Do they need qualifications? Jk – they are an independent US government agency responsible for providing national security intelligence). May 15, 2013. "The World Factbook." https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/geos/cu.html Accessed 7/5/13-https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/geos/cu.html Accessed 7/5/13 SH
Cuba is a source country for adults and some children subjected to forced labor and
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the death penalty for certain drug-related crimes in 1999 (2008)

Human Trafficking is the most hideous crime imaginable.
UN 12   United Nations. "2.4 Million Human Trafficking Victims." April 3, 2012. Accessed 7/5/13 http://www.usatoday.com/news/world/story/2012-04-03/human-trafficking-sex-UN/53982026/1-http://www.usatoday.com/news/world/story/2012-04-03/human-trafficking-sex-UN/53982026/1Accessed 7/5/13 SH
Michelle Bachelet, who heads the new U.N. agency promoting women’s rights
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rights subject on which governments have said so much but done so little."

Tournament: Topeka | Round: Semis | Opponent: Shawnee Heights CL | Judge: Klucas, two others

Interpretation – Conditions can be added to economic engagement, but are not an actual part of engagement itself. The act of conditioning is distinct from the act of engaging.

IGCC 2009 
Asia Society Center on U.S.-China Relations And The University of California Institute on Global Conflict and Cooperation, "North Korea Inside Out: The Case for Economic Engagement," http://igcc.ucsd.edu/assets/001/501739.pdf
Our report is focused on the economic side of engagement, and particularly   on forms
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weighing of the costs and benefits of its nuclear weapons and missile programs. 

Violation – The affirmative puts conditions on economic engagement, half of the aff happens outside the topic.

Standards –

Predictable limits – infinite amount of conditions they can put on the plan

Checks plantext vagueness – aff can make vague conditions and shift the meaning of the plan throughout the debate, moving target, impossible to predict, kills fairness

Ground, 2 reasons —- conditions CPs are key neg CP ground to test the aff, steals that —- allows the aff to sever out of disads by saying there’s no harm in just asking, and then claiming advantages off the untopical action

Voter for fairness and education

Tournament: Topeka | Round: 4 | Opponent: WaRu | Judge: 

INTERPRETATION:  Economic engagement is trade, remittances, and foreign direct investment

USDS 9
U.S. Department of State, "What is Total Economic Engagement?," http://2001-2009.state.gov/e/eeb/92986.htm
An accurate accounting of a nation’s total engagement must include economic policies as well as, trade, remittances, and foreign direct investment. In these areas, the U.S. leads the world in total economic engagement with the developing world. The private donations of American citizens, military emergency aid and peacekeeping and government assistance provide the primary sources for development financing.

B. HR 1613 works towards domestic job creation, conservation of domestic mineral resources, production of hydrocarbons, information dissemination, conferences and consultations with Cuba, and is NOT a form of commercial engagement.

HR 1613 July 8th Literally the bill HR 1613, Text as of July 8th 2013, referred to Senate Committee, text viewable here: http://www.govtrack.us/congress/bills/113/hr1613/text ~accessed 8/4/13~
HR 1613 RFS¶ 113th CONGRESS¶ 1st Session¶ H. R. 1613
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June 27, 2013.¶ Attest:¶ KAREN L. HAAS,¶ Clerk.

C. Standards

1) Limits – explodes the topic, any number of things can be topical.

2) Ground – different generics apply by category, steals cp and disad ground

D. Vote neg for fairness and education

Tournament: KCKCC | Round: 1 | Opponent: WEast JK | Judge: Skoglund
Interpretation – They can defend economic engagement from ONLY the United States federal government toward ONLY Cuba, Mexico, or Venezuela.

1. Mexico refers to the country south of the United States
   Oxford Dictionary
   http://oxforddictionaries.com/us/definition/american_english/Mexico
   Definition of Mexico a country in southwestern North America, with extensive coastlines on the Gulf of Mexico and the Pacific Ocean, bordered by the US on the north; population 111,211,800 (est. 2009); capital, Mexico City; language, Spanish (official).  a state in central Mexico, west of Mexico City; capital, Toluca de Lerdo. The center of both Mayan and Aztec civilizations, Mexico was conquered and colonized by the Spanish in the early 16th century. It remained under Spanish rule until independence was achieved in 1821; a republic was established three years later. Texas rebelled and broke away in 1836, while all the remaining territory north of the Rio Grande was lost to the US in the Mexican War of 1846–48
   2. United States federal government = government of the USA
   Ballentine's 95 (Legal Dictionary and Thesaurus, p. 245)

the government of the United States of America

b. Violation – NAFTA includes Canada – makes them extra-topical
Merriam Webster http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/nafta PBM
Trade pact signed by Canada, the U.S., and Mexico in 1992, which took effect in 1994. Inspired by the success of the European Community in reducing trade barriers among its members, NAFTA created the world's largest free-trade area. It basically extended to Mexico the provisions of a 1988 Canada-U.S. free-trade agreement, calling for elimination of all trade barriers over a 15-year period, granting U.S. and Canadian companies access to certain Mexican markets, and incorporating agreements on labour and the environment. See also General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade; World Trade Organization.
c. Standards

1. Limits – they justify any number of untopical actions in addition to the plan
   2. Ground – steals key cp ground – outside the topic should be negative ground
   d. Voter for Fairness and Education,

Tournament: Washburn Rural | Round: 5 | Opponent: SMNW | Judge: 

A. INTERPRETATION:  THE PLAN SHOULD TAKE DIRECT ACTION THAT IS ECONOMIC ENGAGEMENT

Economic engagement includes the following

U.S. Department of State ’9
U.S. Department of State, "What is Total Economic Engagement?," http://2001-2009.state.gov/e/eeb/92986.htm-http://2001-2009.state.gov/e/eeb/92986.htm
Total Economic Engagement seeks to integrate and coordinate all U.S. economic instruments
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, energy, development, transportation, and telecommunications help ensure this coordination.

B. VIOLATION:  THE PLAN ENDS THE EMBARGO TO OPEN THE WAY FOR ECONOMONIC ENGAGMENT

C. IT’S A VOTING ISSUE FOR COMPETITIVE EQUITY AND EDUCATION.  EFFECTS T JUSTIFIES AFFIRMATIVES DOING NONTOPICAL ACTION THAT MERELY RESULTS IN TOPICAL ACTION.  WE CAN NEVER PREDICT "GOING TO SPACE TO ECONOMICALLY ENGAGE COUNTRY X" OR ALL THE POSSIBLE ACTIONS AND ADVANTAGES—PREVENTS COHERENT AND COMPETITIVE NEGATIVE STRATEGIES WHICH LEADS TO SHALLOW DEBATES THAT LACK EDUCATIONAL DEPTH—INHERENTLY PUTS NEGATIVES AT A STRATEGIC DISADVANTAGE.

Tournament: Iowa Caucus | Round: 5 | Opponent: West Des Moines Valley | Judge:
====A. Interpretation: Economic engagement is seeking economic ties.====
Hormats 12
(Robert D. Hormats, Under Secretary for Economic Growth, Energy, and the Environment, "U.S. Economic Engagement with the Asia Pacific", Department of State, December 7, 2012, http://www.state.gov/e/rls/rmk/2012/201746.htm-http://www.state.gov/e/rls/rmk/2012/201746.htm) FS
But the real indicator of this is what we’ve done to enhance our economic engagement in the region, and I would like to spend some time describing what we’ve done and then go on to the kind of things that we anticipate doing over coming months and coming years.
A few highlights of what we have include:
(1) Seeking to forge more open economic ties, particularly through enhanced engagement with regional institutions such as ASEAN and APEC;
(2) Promoting a free system of commerce and investment and the exchange of ideas by pushing for lower tariffs, through trade expansion, and increased investment throughout the region, along with measures to protect intellectual property, and broader and deeper dialogues within regional institutions;
(3) Advancing a more transparent system with rules and with regulations that will promote higher standards, such as through the TPP and through other vehicles; and
(4) Supporting a fairer system, a system that respects "rules of the road" on trade and investment, particularly through extensive and constructive dialogues with emerging economies of the region in APEC, in ASEAN, and in other groups, engaging a wide number of countries in the region in a wide range of dialogues.

Economic engagement is long-term strategy for promoting structural linkage between two economies
Mastanduno, 1 – professor of Government at Dartmouth College (Michael, "Economic Engagement Strategies: Theory and Practice" http://web.archive.org/web/20120906033646/http://polisci.osu.edu/faculty/bpollins/book/Mastanduno.pdf-http://web.archive.org/web/20120906033646/http:/polisci.osu.edu/faculty/bpollins/book/Mastanduno.pdf
The basic causal logic of economic engagement, and the emphasis on domestic politics,
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chain runs from economic interdependence through domestic political change to foreign policy accommodation.

Engagement requires DIRECT talks – means both governments must be involved

Crocker ’9 ~9/13/09, Chester A. Crocker is a professor of strategic studies at the Walsh School of Foreign Service at Georgetown University, was an assistant secretary of state for African affairs from 1981 to 1989. "Terms of Engagement," http://www.nytimes.com/2009/09/14/opinion/14crocker.html?_r=126~~

PRESIDENT OBAMA will have a hard time achieving his foreign policy goals until he masters
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realistic options and, hence, to modify its policies and its behavior.

B. Violation: They should provide a topical access point— the aff only needs to seek economic engagement – they don’t meet because they aren’t a long term strategy or economic engagement They’re  economic inducement – engagement requires trade promotion

Celik, 11 – master’s student at Uppsala University (Department of Peace and Conflict Research) (Arda, Economic Sanctions and Engagement Policies http://www.grin.com/en/e-book/175204/economic-sanctions-and-engagement-policies-http://www.grin.com/en/e-book/175204/economic-sanctions-and-engagement-policies)

Literature of liberal school points out that economic engagement policies are significantly effective tools for
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believes in that economic linkages have political transformation potential.(Kroll,1993)

C. Standards:

The aff explodes the limits of the debate by having literally no restrictions on what can be talked about.

negative ground – trade promotion is vital for a stable mechanism for disad links and counterplan ground

Clash is an internal link to both education and fairness.

D. It’s a voter for fairness and education

Tournament: Topeka | Round: 1 | Opponent: BVNW | Judge: D Minor

A. Interpretation - Economic engagement is long-term strategy for promoting structural linkage between two economies

Mastanduno, 1 – professor of Government at Dartmouth College (Michael, "Economic Engagement Strategies: Theory and Practice" http://web.archive.org/web/20120906033646/http://polisci.osu.edu/faculty/bpollins/book/Mastanduno.pdf
The basic causal logic of economic engagement, and the emphasis on domestic politics,
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chain runs from economic interdependence through domestic political change to foreign policy accommodation.

B. Violation – economic engagement requires trade promotion – they’re inducement

Celik, 11 – master’s student at Uppsala University (Department of Peace and Conflict Research) (Arda, Economic Sanctions and Engagement Policies http://www.grin.com/en/e-book/175204/economic-sanctions-and-engagement-policies)

Literature of liberal school points out that economic engagement policies are significantly effective tools for
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believes in that economic linkages have political transformation potential.(Kroll,1993)

C. Voting issue –

1. limits – broad interpretations of engagement include anything that effects the economy, which means everything

2. negative ground – trade promotion is vital for a stable mechanism for disad links and counterplan ground

Tournament: Wichita East | Round: 2 | Opponent: Wichita NorthWest | Judge: 

T – Engagement 1NC

Economic engagement must be policies intending to transform or constrain foreign policy behaviors of a target state

Kahler and Kastner 2006
The Abstract from the Article, Miles, Graduate School of International Relations and Pacific Studies University of California, San Diego, "Strategic Uses of Economic Interdependence: Engagement Policies on the Korean Peninsula and Across the Taiwan Strait," http://jpr.sagepub.com/content/43/5/523.abstract-http://jpr.sagepub.com/content/43/5/523.abstract
While the determinants and effectiveness of economic sanctions have been the subject of a substantial
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more likely to succeed when a broad consensus exists in the initiating state.

Violation – the aff is economic cooperation, not an attempt to alter a target’s behavior

Standards

Predictable Limits – limiting the goal is key to ensure some form of predictability on the topic – unlimited forms of cooperation

Ground – Takes away core disads and kritiks of economic manipulation

Voter for fairness and education

Tournament: Wichita East | Round: 4 | Opponent: Blue Valley North Womack-Yang | Judge: E Cox

PIC

Text: The United States federal government should substantially decrease its economic blockade on Cuba except for restrictions on rice trade with cuba.
Cuba is a key rice market for Vietnam but it couldn’t compete with the US
NIELSEN 2003 (Chantal Pohl Nielsen, Danish Research Institute of Food Economics, Vietnam’s Rice Policy, www.gtap.agecon.purdue.edu/resources/download/1080.pdf?)
The explanation behind the observation that the United States, Pakistan and Thailand seem able
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EU account for only a very small share of total Vietnamese rice exports.

Rice is key to Vietnamese economy
YOUNG et al 2002 (Kenneth B. Young, Eric J.Wailes, Gail L. Cramer, Department of Agricultural Economics and Agribusiness, University of Arkansas; Nguyen Tri Khiem, Can Tho University; "Vietnam’s Rice Economy: Developments and Prospects," April, arkansasagnews.uark.edu/968.pdf?)
Vietnam’s food crop sector, comprising more than 85 rice, is the most
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and about 25 of the total export value from 1994 to 1996.

Vietnamese economic decline causes regional instability and crushes ASEAN
MITTON 2010 (Roger, "Economic reform vital for teetering Vietnam," Phnom Penh Post, Dec 13, factiva)
Now we have Vietnam, where the warnings of impending catastrophe grow ever louder.
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counterparts did in Romania, Poland and East Germany not so long ago.
Extinction
RAJARATNAM 1992 (Sinnathamby, former Deputy Prime Minister of Singapore, "ASEAN The Way Ahead," Sep 1, http://www.asean.org/asean/about-asean/history/item/asean-the-way-ahead-by-s-rajaratnam)
Should regionalism collapse, then ASEAN too will go the way of earlier regional attempts
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ever be unleashed, would be the last war mankind will ever fight.