Tournament: LAMDL 1 | Round: 2 | Opponent: Crenshaw | Judge:
A. Interpretation – Economic engagement requires expanding economic ties.
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, Sage. )
Economic engagement – a policy of deliberately expanding economic ties with an adversary in order
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research on this interesting and important feature of security policy and international politics.
Violation – plan only removes the embargo, there is no expansion of economic ties.
Standards –
Ground – all of our offense is predicated around the assumption that money and/or goods are exchanged between the US and topic countries. The plan doesn’t guarantee this occurs, destroys predictability.
Effects T is illegit – it turns topicality into a solvency debate and allows the aff to generate advantages off of intermediate, non-topical steps, creates aff side bias. Evaluate plan in a vacuum.
Voting issue – for fairness
Wells 4-26 (Miriam, Wells is a journalist who has previously worked for BBC Radio News and for Human Rights Watch. She has worked for InSight Crime since 2012, specializes in Latin American Reporting, "Should Russian Anti-Drug Aid to LatAm Worry the US? " 2013 http://www.insightcrime.org/news-analysis/should-russian-drug-aid-latam-worry-us)
Russian involvement in Latin America has been growing for several years, particularly in left
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predicted to increase to 2410 billion annually in the next three years.
Blank 2009 (Stephen Blank is Professor of Russian National Security Studies at the Strategic Studies Institute of the US Army War College, "Russia in Latin America: Geopolitical Games in the US’s Neighborhood." Ifri, Russia/NIS Center April, www.ifri.org/downloads/ifriblankrussiaandlatinamericaengapril09.pdf?)
Unfortunately Moscow’s current foreign policy—and that of supporters like president of Venezuela Hugo
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Latin American partners in reply to the reciprocal interest they are showing."26
Russia conducts its foreign policy in terms of zero sum influence – these conflicts spill over and destroy relations
Blank 2011 – (Steven, Professor of Russian National Security Studies at the Strategic Studies Institute of the US Army War College "Russia’s Second Wind in Latin America", Perspectives on the Americas A Series of Opinion Pieces by Leading Commentators on the Region August 18 https://www6.miami.edu/hemispheric-policy/Perspectives_on_the_Americas/Blank-Latam2011-FINAL.pdf-https://www6.miami.edu/hemispheric-policy/Perspectives_on_the_Americas/Blank-Latam2011-FINAL.pdf)
Indeed, Russian policy is not driven by Latin America’s views, but by classical
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and more attention to this vector of our economic and foreign policy."9
Destruction of Russian relations causes nuclear war, nuclear terrorism, and destroys hegemony.
Cohen 2011 – Ph.D., professor of Russian studies at New York University and Professor of Politics Emeritus at Princeton University (Stephen, "Obama’s Russia ’Reset’: Another Lost Opportunity?" http://www.thenation.com/article/161063/obamas-russia-reset-another-lost-opportunity?page=full)
An enduring existential reality has been lost in Washington’s post–cold war illusions and
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, Washington still plays the leading Western role, for better or worse.
==== Link: The plan is justification for U.S. neoliberal domination of Latin America – U.S. security interests will always come before the needs of the people. Economic engagement is a mask for U.S. hegemony and exploitation of Latin America.====
Jacobs ’4 (Jamie Elizabeth, Assistant Prof of Polisci at West Virginia U, "Neoliberalism and Neopanamericanism: The View from Latin America," Latin American Politics 26 Society 46.4 (2004) 149-152, MUSE)
The advance of neoliberalism suffers no shortage of critics, both from its supporters who
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further weakening of state sovereignty in the South. ~End Page 150~
Neoliberalism produces a global monoculture that ends in extinction – it reduces life itself to intellectual property to be owned and exchanged, encapsulating the globe within its singular economic perspective – this process produces massive social inequality, environmental destruction, and international conflict
Lander ’2,
(Edgardo, Prof. of Sociology and Latin American studies at the Venezuelan Central University in Caracas, "Eurocentrism, Modern Knowledges, and the "Natural" Order of Global Capital, Nepantla: Views from South", 3.2, muse)
Just as resources formerly considered to be commons, or of communal use, were
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intensified, totalitarian monoculture of Eurocentric knowledge only lead to destruction and death.
The alternative – the judge should vote negative to reject neoliberal knowledge production and endorse globalization from below
Choi, Murphy, and Caro 4
Jung Min, John W, Manuel J, Professor of Sociology SDSU, Professor of Sociology University of Miami, Professor of Sociology Barry University, Globalization with a Human Face, pg. 6-9
Many critics have begun to wonder why hamburgers and jeans can be globalized, but
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less alienating ways? With little left to why not pursue alternative visions?
The role of the teacher should be to cultivate ethical advocacy skills because pedagogy reproduces systems of injustice – decisionmaking skills without ethical direction only create inequality
Giroux ’4
(Henry, Global TV Network Chair in English and Cultural Studies at McMaster University, "Public Pedagogy and the Politics of Neo-liberalism: making the political more pedagogical", Policy Futures in Education, Volume 2, Numbers 3 26 4, 2004, http://www.cws.illinois.edu/IPRHDigitalLiteracies/GirouxPublicPFinE2004.pdf)
The moral implications of pedagogy also suggest that our responsibility as public intellectuals cannot be
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of what it means to be educated from its critical and democratic possibilities.