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1st Year State | 1 | Opponent: Chattahoochee NR | Judge: Thorpe, Chelsea 1AC - NTR |
Samford | 2 | Opponent: MBA RZ | Judge: Reuben Lack 1AC |
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1AC -- 1st Year StateTournament: 1st Year State | Round: 1 | Opponent: Chattahoochee NR | Judge: Thorpe, Chelsea Contention 1: StabilityThe embargo collapses the Cubans economy and Raul’s reforms will collapse Cuba by widening inequality and cutting social programsBowie, 11/1/13 - Nile Bowie is a political analyst and photographer currently residing in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia (Russia Today, "Isolated 26 discredited: Intransigent US policy impedes Cuba’s reforms" http://rt.com/op-edge/us-cuba-economic-benefits-089/) Government mismanagement and new Venezuela policy – Maduro is scaling backFrench, 13 – editor of and a frequent contributor to The Havana Note, has led more than two dozen research trips to Cuba (Anya Landau, "Can Cuba Survive the Loss of Chavez", 3/6/13, http://thehavananote.com/node/1067) MDM At the same time, it became clear to any honest observer inside or outside Reforms are inevitable. The loss of US investment risks collapse. The plan is key.Ashby, 13 - Senior Research Fellow at the Council on Hemispheric Affairs. He served in the U.S. Commerce Department’s International Trade Administration as Director of the Office of Mexico and the Caribbean and acting Deputy Assistant Secretary of Commerce for the Western Hemisphere (Timothy, "Preserving Stability in Cuba After Normalizing Relations with the United States – The Importance of Trading with State-Owned Enterprises" 3/29/13, Council on Hemispheric Affairs, http://www.coha.org/preserving-stability-in-cuba-timothy-ashby/)//AD Cuba under Raúl Castro has entered a new period of economic, social, and Current reforms are not sufficient to solveRathbone, 1/17 – the FT’s Latin American editor, having previously edited the Lex column; the author of The Sugar King of Havana: the rise and fall of Julio Lobo, Cuba’s last tycoon (John Paul, "Raúl Castro’s unhurried reforms of Cuba economy falter", Financial Times, 1/17/14, http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/27ee4c6a-7dee-11e3-b409-00144feabdc0.html~~23axzz2qxrb24B0) EK In a dusty Havana parking lot, a group of Cubans examine the prices of Independently increases risk of terrorism and makes conflicts in hotspots around the globe more likelyGorrell, 5 - Lieutenant Colonel, US Army, paper submitted for the USAWC STRATEGY RESEARCH PROJECT (Tim, "CUBA: THE NEXT UNANTICIPATED ANTICIPATED STRATEGIC CRISIS?" http://www.dtic.mil/cgi-bin/GetTRDoc?AD=ADA433074 GWOT=Global War on Terrorism Regardless of the succession, under the current U.S. policy, Cuba’s Hotspot escalation goes nuclearBosco, 6 – senior editor at Foreign Policy magazine (David, "Forum: Keeping an eye peeled for World War III", 7/30/06, http://www.post-gazette.com/stories/opinion/perspectives/forum-keeping-an-eye-peeled-for-world-war-iii-444141/) The understanding that small but violent acts can spark global conflagration is etched into the Terrorism causes extinctionHellman ‘08 – Professor at Stanford, (Martin E., Spring, 2008, "The Bent of Tau Beta Pi", http://www.nuclearrisk.org/paper.pdf)//HH The threat of nuclear terrorism looms much larger in the public’s mind than the threat Contention 2: CooperationUnilateralism failsKupchan, 12 – Ph.D. in international relations from Oxford, Associate Professor of International Relations at Georgetown, Senior Fellow and Director of Europe Studies at the Council on Foreign Relations (Charles, "Sorry, Mitt: It Won’t Be an American Century", 2/6/12, http://www.foreignpolicy.com/articles/2012/02/06/it_won_t_be_an_american_century?page=0,2) In an election season, such talk rolls easily off the tongue. But Romney’s Repeal of the embargo would represent a commitment to multilateralism for the international communityBurgsdorff, 9 – Ph.D. in Political Science from Freiburg University, EU Fellow at the University of Miami (Sven Kühn von, "Problems and Opportunities for the Incoming Obama Administration", http://aei.pitt.edu.proxy.lib.umich.edu/11047/1/vonBurgsdorfUSvsCubalong09edi.pdf) NG In addition, the US needs to improve its international human rights reputation which was the plan fosters a credible conflict resolution model– status quo policies risk disengagement and pressures risk destabilizing CubaDickerson 10 – Lieutenant Colonel, US Army, paper submitted in fulfillment of a Master of Strategic Studies Degree at the US Army War College (Sergio M, "UNITED STATES SECURITY STRATEGY TOWARDS CUBA," 1/14/10, http://www.dtic.mil/dtic/tr/fulltext/u2/a518053.pdf) NG At the international political level, President Obama sees resuming relations with Cuba as a Multilateralism leads to greater power sharing and international cooperation, resolving conflictPouliot 11 — Professor of Political Science at McGill University (Vincent Pouliot, "Multilateralism as an End in Itself," International Studies Perspectives (2011) 12, 18–26)NG Because it rests on open, nondiscriminatory debate, and the routine exchange of viewpoints Multilateralism solves inevitable Asian transition wars which go nuclearKugler, 6 – Professor of World Politics at Claremont Graduate University (Jacek, "The Asian Ascent: Opportunity for Peace or Precondition for War?", http://sobek.colorado.edu/~~lewiso/Kugler20-20The20Asian20Ascent.pdf) NG Given the fundamental importance of demographic and economic forces in establishing Specifically multilateral legitimacy is vital to maintain primacyFinnemore, 9 – professor of political science and international affairs at George Washington University (Martha, , "Legitimacy, Hypocrisy, and the Social Structure of Unipolarity: Why Being a Unipole Isn’t All It’s Cracked Up to Be," World Politics, Volume 61, January 2009, http://home.gwu.edu/~~finnemor/articles/2009_unipolarity_wp.pdf, SMS) Legitimacy is, by its nature, a social and relational phenomenon. One’s position Even with its problems, US heg is on balance good, solves transition wars, and checks global issues better than any other systemKeck, 1/24 - Associate Editor of The Diplomat (Zachary, "America’s Relative Decline: Should We Panic?," The Diplomat, 1-24-13, http://thediplomat.com/2014/01/americas-relative-decline-should-we-panic/, SMS) This isn’t to say America is necessarily as benign a hegemon as some in the The United States federal government should normalize its trade relations with Cuba.Contention 3: SolvencyLifting the embargo alone doesn’t result in trade – the U.S. must normalize relations with Cuba to solveFrench, 9 – editor of and a frequent contributor to The Havana Note, has led more than two dozen research trips to Cuba (Anya Landau, "Options for Engagement A Resource Guide for Reforming U.S. Policy toward Cuba", http://www.lexingtoninstitute.org/library/resources/documents/Cuba/USPolicy/options-for-engagement.pdf) the path to "normal" trade relations¶ If the United States were to Only unconditional removal solves – the embargo empowers the regime and it has an incentive to reject conditional removalVivanco, 6 – LLM from Harvard Law School, Americas director of Humans Rights Watch (Jose Miguel, "Restraint, not force, will bring change to Cuba", Humans Rights Watch, 12/22/06, http://www.hrw.org/news/2006/12/21/restraint-not-force-will-bring-change-cuba, Google Scholar) KW This reluctance would be understandable but misguided. Most Cubans do want change. If Current reforms don’t stabilize Cuba’s economy – direct engagement is necessaryLaverty and Stephens, 11 – *Center for Democracy in the Americas AND Executive Director of the Center for Democracy (Collin, Sarah, "Cuba’s New Resolve Economic Reform and Its Implications for U.S. Policy", Center for Democracy in the Americas, 2011, http://democracyinamericas.org/pdfs/CDA_Cubas_New_Resolve.pdf) Will the Reforms Work?¶ There are game-changing events outside of Cuba’s control | 2/25/14 |
1AC -- SamfordTournament: Samford | Round: 2 | Opponent: MBA RZ | Judge: Reuben Lack Contention 1: StabilityThe embargo ruins Cuba’s economy. The harmful economic effects of the embargo From an official Cuban source, the direct Government mismanagement and new Venezuela policy – Maduro is scaling back At the same time, it became clear to any honest observer inside or outside Normalized relations with Cuba are key to resolving structural issues in Cuba’s economy – Congressional action is necessary Cuba under Raúl Castro has entered a new period of economic, social, and And, it entrenches long-term economic stability – current reform process is failing Under Raul Castro, the Cuban government has continued to undertake a number of important Cuban economic collapse causes a refugee crisis, incapacitates U.S. deterrence, and exacerbates hotspots Regardless of the succession, under the current U.S. policy, Cuba’s Hotspot escalation goes nuclear The understanding that small but violent acts can spark global conflagration is etched into the Terrorism causes extinction The threat of nuclear terrorism looms much larger in the public’s mind than the threat The United States federal government should normalize its trade relations with Cuba. Contention 2: CooperationUnilateralism fails In an election season, such talk rolls easily off the tongue. But Romney’s The plan fosters a credible conflict resolution model – status quo policies risk disengagement At the international political level, President Obama sees resuming relations with Cuba as a the plan sends a clear signal of Latin American cooperation to reinvigorate the OAS FOR most of our history, the United States assumed that its security was inextricably Independently, the OAS is key to enforce arms control – it’s the only way to prevent a South American arms race The idea of arms control is not explicitly present in the Charter, but slowly South American arms race causes a great power war I will venture that, regardless of whether we are witnessing an arms race or Failed arms control causes extinction At the global level, arms limitation or prohibition agreements, notably in the field multilateralism leads to greater power sharing and international cooperation, resolving conflict Because it rests on open, nondiscriminatory debate, and the routine exchange of viewpoints Multilateralism solves inevitable Asian transition wars that go nuclear Given the fundamental importance of demographic and economic forces in establishing the roster of states Contention 3: SolvencyLifting the embargo alone doesn’t result in trade – the U.S. must normalize relations with Cuba to solve the path to "normal" trade relations¶ If the United States were to Only unconditional removal solves – the embargo empowers the regime and it has an incentive to reject conditional removal This reluctance would be understandable but misguided. Most Cubans do want change. If Cuba will say yes to efforts to pursue greater normalization The second point is what’s happening in Cuba. It’s not realistic to expect the Current reforms don’t stabilize Cuba’s economy – direct engagement is necessary Will the Reforms Work?¶ There are game-changing events outside of Cuba’s control | 2/25/14 |
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