Tournament: Stanford | Round: 3 | Opponent: St Vincent De Paul GC | Judge: Jaime Holguin
Counterplan Text: The United States federal government should end colonial and neoliberal policies that require coercive force.
The net benefit is free trade
Trade soles war—economic interdependence
Deudney et al 9 (Daniel, professor of political science at John Hopkins, and John Ikenberry, professor of international affairs at Princeton, Foreign Affairs, “The Myth of Autocratic Revival,” http://www.foreignaffairs.com/articles/63721/daniel-deudney-and-g-john-ikenberry/the-myth-of-the-autocratic-revival)
This bleak outlook is based on an exaggeration of recent developments and ignores powerful countervailing factors and forces. Indeed, contrary to what the revivalists describe, the most striking features of the contemporary international landscape are the intensification of economic globalization, thickening institutions, and shared problems of interdependence. The overall structure of the international system today is quite unlike that of the nineteenth century. Compared to older orders, the contemporary liberal centered international order provides a set of constraints and opportunities -- of pushes and pulls -- that reduce the likelihood of severe conflict while creating strong imperatives for cooperative problem solving. Those invoking the nineteenth century as a model for the twenty-first also fail to acknowledge the extent to which war as a path to conflict resolution and great-power expansion has become largely obsolete. Most important, nuclear weapons have transformed great-power war from a routine feature of international politics into an exercise in national suicide. With all of the great powers possessing nuclear weapons and ample means to rapidly expand their deterrent forces, warfare among these states has truly become an option of last resort. The prospect of such great losses has instilled in the great powers a level of caution and restraint that effectively precludes major revisionist efforts. Furthermore, the diffusion of small arms and the near universality of nationalism have severely limited the ability of great powers to conquer and occupy territory inhabited by resisting populations (as Algeria, Vietnam, Afghanistan, and now Iraq have demonstrated). Unlike during the days of empire building in the nineteenth century, states today cannot translate great asymmetries of power into effective territorial control; at most, they can hope for loose hegemonic relationships that require them to give something in return. Also unlike in the nineteenth century, today the density of trade, investment, and production networks across international borders raises even more the costs of war. A Chinese invasion of Taiwan, to take one of the most plausible cases of a future interstate war, would pose for the Chinese communist regime daunting economic costs, both domestic and international. Taken together, these changes in the economy of violence mean that the international system is far more primed for peace than the autocratic revivalists acknowledge.
Trade is key to peace—empirics
Daniel Grisworld 12/28/5, director of the Cato Institute Center for Trade Policy Studies,”Peace on Earth? Try Free Trade among Men”
Buried beneath the daily stories about car bombs and insurgents is an underappreciated but comforting
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acquire them peacefully by trading away what they can produce best at home.¶
Conclusive evidence indicates trade alleviates poverty
WTO 6/13/2k, “Free trade helps reduce poverty, says new WTO secretariat study”
The following is a selection of the highlights of the study "Trade, Income
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incomes of the poor rise one-for-one with overall growth.
Trade solves poverty—economic growth
Peter Lilley 7/24/7, chairs the Conservatives' globalisation and global poverty policy group, “Only trade can solve global poverty”
The policy group on global poverty, which David Cameron asked me to chair,
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by two thirds and that on agriculture by even more over two decades.
Free trade competition brings extension of women’s rights
Norberg '3
Johan Norberg., M.A. in History of Ideas, Stockholm University, a fellow at the Swedish think tank Timbro, author of In Defence of Global Capitalism which won the Sir Antony Fisher International Memorial Award by the Atlas Economic Research Foundation; "Poor Man's Hero: Controversial writer Johan Norberg champions globalization as the best hope for the developing world," interview by Nick Gillespie in Reason Magazine, December, http://www.reason.com/news/show/28968.html accessed: 8-13-07
Globalization has also helped extend rights to women that had long been confined to men
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, "Wow, things can be very different than I'm used to."
Independently, Latin America is structurally improving due to globalization
O’Neil 6-16-13 (Shannon O’Neil is senior fellow for Latin America studies at the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR), O’Neil has taught in the political science department at Columbia University. She is a frequent commentator on major television and radio programs, and her work has appeared in Foreign Affairs, Foreign Affairs Latinoamerica, Americas Quarterly, Política Exterior, Foreign Policy, the Washington Post, and the Los Angeles Times, among others, and she has testified before the U.S. Congress on U.S. policy toward Mexico, she was a justice, welfare, and economics fellow at the Weatherhead Center for International Affairs at Harvard University. She was also a Fulbright scholar in Mexico and Argentina. Prior to her academic work, Dr. O’Neil worked in the private sector as an equity analyst at Indosuez Capital Latin America and Credit Lyonnais Securities. She holds a BA from Yale University, an MA in international relations from Yale University, and a PhD in government from Harvard University, “Latin American Success Story”, June 16th, 2013, http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2013/07/16/latin-america-s-secret-success-story.html)//moxley
Latin America rarely looms large on the global scene, overshadowed by Europe, the
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than to look toward its hemispheric neighbors, who have much to impart.
Squo is structurally improving---health, environment and equality
Bjorn Lomborg 10/16, Adjunct Professor at the Copenhagen Business School, "A Better World Is Here", 2013, www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/on-the-declining-costs-of-global-problems-by-bj-rn-lomborg
COPENHAGEN – For centuries, optimists and pessimists have argued over the state of the
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, but on objective assessments of where we can do the most good.