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1acTournament: Wake Forest | Round: 4 | Opponent: | Judge: If the United States and Latin America do not make the effort now, the Plan sends a signal to Latin America that the US is willing to be reasonable- boosts US credibility in the region and salvages regional cooperation Yet for a half-century, our policies toward our southern neighbors have alternated Cuba is key to US-Latin American Relations-specifically spills-over to global coop on warming- overcomes alt causes Cuba, too, poses a significant challenge for relations between the United States and Slaughter‘11 There is no debate among scientists about the basic facts of global warming. The The hour is late. Leading climate scientists such as James Hansen are literally shouting Scenario 2 is multilateralism In an election season, such talk rolls easily off the tongue. But Romney's In addition, the US needs to improve its international human rights reputation which was Second, the plan fosters a credible conflict resolution model which prevents conflict in Kashmir and the Middle East – status quo policies risk disengagement At the international political level, President Obama sees resuming relations with Cuba as a Middle East war causes World War 3 FOR most of our history, the United States assumed that its security was inextricably Speaking in Santiago, Chile, in March of last year, President Obama contention 2 is agriculture The Studebakers plying up and down Havana’s boardwalk aren’t the best advertisement for dynamism and For the U.S. organic market, in addition to a lifting of While investment in Cuban businesses and sales or purchases of Cuban products must still move Cuba needed an alternative agricultural model when foreign oil imports were cut off significantly at Many worry whether Cuba’s budget and planning services will be able to maintain its commitment The character of human conflict has also changed: since the early 1990s, more Energy intensive agriculture is the primary cause of environmental degradation Just when agricultural output could expand no more by increasing acreage, new innovations made Ecological collapse risks extinction But today, for the first time, humanity’s global civilization—the worldwide, From an image stand point repealing the sanctions and removing the embargo is symbolic. Lift the embargo--- it’s not working anyway It is far past time to end the embargo.¶ During the Cold War, | 9/7/13 |
1ac michiganTournament: Michigan | Round: 2 | Opponent: Iowa City West ST | Judge: Ann Peter 1accontention 1 is coalitionScenario 1 is relationsNow is key to solve US-Latin American RelationsGoforth 9/25 Author, Axis of Unity: Venezuela, Iran 26 the Threat to America. Affiliated Researcher, Portuguese Institute of International Relations and Security, IPRIS ("US – Latin America Relations: In Defense Of Benign Neglect – Analysis", 2013, Eurasia Review, http://www.eurasiareview.com/25092013-us-latin-america-relations-defense-benign-neglect-analysis/) Hugo ChaÏvez lies in tomb at Venezuela’s military aca?demy, Cuba’s economy creaks Plan boosts US credibility in the region and salvages regional cooperation – sends a signal to Latin America that the US is willing to be reasonable.White 3/7 –(Robert E. White, a senior fellow at the Center for International Policy, was the United States ambassador to Paraguay from 1977 to 1979 and to El Salvador from 1980 to 1981, "After Chávez, a Chance to Rethink Relations With Cuba " NYTimes March 7, 2013 http://www.nytimes.com/2013/03/08/opinion/after-chavez-hope-for-good-neighbors-in-latin-america.html?pagewanted=126_r=026partner=rss26emc=rss-Accessed-7-9-13-RX) Yet for a half-century, our policies toward our southern neighbors have alternated Cuba is key to US-Latin American Relations-specifically spills-over to global coop on warming- overcomes alt causesShifter ’12 - (Michael is an Adjunct Professor of Latin American Studies at Georgetown University’s School of Foreign Service. He is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations and writes for the Council’s journal Foreign Affairs. He serves as the President of Inter-American Dialogue. "Remaking the Relationship: The United States and Latin America," April, IAD Policy Report, http://www.thedialogue.org/PublicationFiles/IAD2012PolicyReportFINAL.pdf) Cuba, too, poses a significant challenge for relations between the United States and That’s key to solve warmingSlaughter’11 - (Anne-Marie, Bert G. Kerstetter ’66 university professor of politics and international affairs at Princeton University, "Problems Will Be Global — And Solutions Will Be, Too", Foreign Policy, Sept/Oct, Issue 188, Ebsco) Driving this massive multilateralization is the increasingly global and regional nature of our problems, Warming is real and anthropogenicEDF ’09 - ~Environmental Defense Fund, a US-based nonprofit environmental advocacy group, "Global Warming Myths and Facts," 1/13/2009, http://mrgreenbiz.wordpress.com/2009/01/13/global-warming-myths-and-facts-2/~~ There is no debate among scientists about the basic facts of global warming. The Warming kills billionsCummins ’10 - (Ronnie, International Director – Organic Consumers Association and Will Allen, Advisor – Organic Consumers Association, writer since 1960s- with extensive experience in environmental campaigns as well as sustainable agriculture he has served as the Director of PFC and GDAAGMO "Climate Catastrophe: Surviving the 21st Century", 2-14, http://www.commondreams.org/view/2010/02/14-6) The hour is late. Leading climate scientists such as James Hansen are literally shouting Scenario 2 is multilateralismUnilateralism causes great power war via self-sufficient trading blocs*unilateralism fails – In an election season, such talk rolls easily off the tongue. But Romney’s Unilat is unsustainable and promotes threat construction and overstretch- a paradigm shift to multilat is critical to making hegemony effectiveMazaar, 12– Professor of National Security Strategy at the U.S. National War College (Michael J., "The Risks of Strategic Insolvency", The Washington Quarterly 35:4 pp. 7-22, http://csis.org/files/publication/twq12FallMazarr.pdf)//NG To be clear, a significant U.S. leadership role in world politics The plan solves–First, repeal would represent a commitment to multilateralism for the international community*plan spreads multilateralism – only the removal of the embargo carries the symbolic weight of revoking previous unilateral efforts to backlash against other countries in votes during conferences in the UN 6.3 How would the international community react? At international level all major Second, the plan fosters a credible conflict resolution model which prevents conflict in Kashmir and the Middle East – status quo policies risk disengagement*plan fosters a credible conflict resolution model – increases diplomatic negotiations with Cuba which even if they fail garner international support for America in multilateral negotiations – also increase Cuban relations which spreads democratic efforts worldwide giving the US a hedge in multilateral institutions At the international political level, President Obama sees resuming relations with Cuba as a Middle East war causes extinctionBeck 5/28 – Middle East Analyst at The Commentator, extensive journalism background, two ivy league degrees (Noah, "A nuclear Middle East is doomsday, 5/28/13, http://www.thecommentator.com/article/3633/a_nuclear_middle_east_is_doomsday)//SJF As the Obama administration tries to unbury itself from snowballing scandals, my apocalyptic thriller Multilateralism leads to greater power sharing and international cooperation, resolving conflict*multilateralism solves global problems – Because it rests on open, nondiscriminatory debate, and the routine exchange of viewpoints Multilateralism solves inevitable Asian transition wars which go nuclear*great power war goes nuclear, mutually assured destruction can’t check – best power transition experts conclude based off decades of demographic and economic research that inevitable transition wars from collapse of unilateralism causes retrenchment wars spurring lash-out drawing in China and India – only multilateralism solves by persuading Chinese leaders to maintain the status quo Given the fundamental importance of demographic and economic forces in establishing the roster of states contention 2 is agricultureCuban agroecology is at risk – it’s the best model and solves mass food shortagesRaj Patel, Fellow at the Institute for Food and Development Policy, 2012 The Studebakers plying up and down Havana’s boardwalk aren’t the best advertisement for dynamism and Access to the US market is key to the continued viability of Cuban organicsKost 04 - William, Economist at the US Department of Agriculture, (CUBAN AGRICULTURE: TO BE OR NOT TO BE ORGANIC?, http://www.ascecuba.org/publications/proceedings/volume14/pdfs/kost.pdf) For the U.S. organic market, in addition to a lifting of Economic isolation will force abandonment of Cuban agKing ’12 - M. Dawn King, Professor of Environmental Studies at Brown, 3/21/12 (Cuban Sustainability: The Effects of Economic Isolation on Agriculture and Energy, wpsa.research.pdx.edu/meet/2012/kingmdawn.pdf) Cuba is well-known for its alternative model of agriculture that focused on diversifying Plan is key to investment in Cuban organoponics, leads to worldwide adoptionShkolnick ’12 - Jacob, JD Candidate at Drake law school, Fall 2012, (SIN EMBARGO: n1 THE CUBAN AGRICULTURAL REVOLUTION AND WHAT IT MEANS FOR THE UNITED STATES" 17 Drake J. Agric. L. 683, lexis) While investment in Cuban businesses and sales or purchases of Cuban products must still move Cuba is the vanguard of a global model for sustainable agricultureRuiz-Marrero 6/9 - Carmelo Ruiz-Marrero is a research associate at the Institute for Social Ecology and director of the Puerto Rico Project on Biosafety http://www.counterpunch.org/2013/06/07/cubas-other-revolution/ Plan prevents Cuban backslidingKing ’12 - M. Dawn King, Professor of Environmental Studies at Brown, 3/21/12, (Cuban Sustainability: The Effects of Economic Isolation on Agriculture and Energy, wpsa.research.pdx.edu/meet/2012/kingmdawn.pdf) Cuba needed an alternative agricultural model when foreign oil imports were cut off significantly at Plan won’t cause Cuban abandonment of agroecologyCornell ’09 - Christina Cornell, Research Associate at Council on Hemispheric Affairs, 4/17/09 Many worry whether Cuba’s budget and planning services will be able to maintain its commitment Energy intensive agriculture causes environmental degradationPfeiffer ’03 - Dale Allen, Geologist, science journalist, and editor of From the Wilderness, 10/3/2003 Just when agricultural output could expand no more by increasing acreage, new innovations made Ecological collapse risks extinctionEhrlich 26 Ehrlich ’13 - Anne Paul Ehrlich, Professor of Biology and Senior Research Scientist at Stanford, 1/9/13 (Can a collapse of global civilization be avoided?,Proceedings of the Royal Society Biological Sciences, Proc. R. Soc. B 2013 280) But today, for the first time, humanity’s global civilization—the worldwide, Polyculture is key to solving water shortages and ocean dead zonesDeway ’07 - James A. Dewar, 2007, ~James A. Dewar is the Frederick S. Pardee Professor of Long-Term Policy Analysis at the Pardee RAND Graduate School. For the past 25 years, Dewar’s main research interests have been strategic planning, planning methodologies, and policymaking under uncertainty,Rand Institute, ’Perennial Polyculture Farming Seeds of Another Agricultural Revolution?", http://www.rand.org/content/dam/rand/pubs/occasional_papers/2007/RAND_OP179.pdf~~ Freshwater systems are contaminated throughout the world. Agriculture is not the only source of planThe United States federal government should normalize its trade relations with Cuba.contention 3 is solvencyPlan solves immediatelyHolmes ’10 (G. Holmes, MA from Georgetown, "SEIZING THE MOMENT," https://repository.library.georgetown.edu/bitstj ream/handle/10822/553334/holmesMichael.pdf?sequence=1) From an image stand point repealing the sanctions and removing the embargo is symbolic. It shows Cuba and the world that although the United States is pro democracy, it does not wish to impose its values on other nations. The Cuba Democracy Act was an attempt to force democratic changes in Cuba.10 By repealing the act the United States, illustrates that it respe’’’ Links are non-uniqueTaylor, 13 (Guy Taylor, 7/4/13, "Private talks hint at change in U.S.-Cuba relationship", http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2013/jul/4/private-talks-hint-at-change-in-us-cuba-relationsh/print/)//EM Unilateral lifting crucial - Cuba will use a condition to veto the planRatliff, 9 - Research Fellow at the Independent Institute and a member of the Board of Advisors of the Institute’s Center on Global Prosperity. He is also a Research Fellow and Curator of the Americas Collection at the Hoover Institution (William, "Why and How to Lift the U.S. Embargo on Cuba", 5/7, How has the embargo failed? It has not brought down the Castro brothers, Cuba says yes- Raul and economic reformsLeoGrande, 13 - professor in the Department of Government, School of Public Affairs at American University in Washington, D.C. (William, "The Danger of Dependence: Cuba’s Foreign Policy After Chavez" World Politics Review, 4/2, http://www.worldpoliticsreview.com/articles/12840/the-danger-of-dependence-cubas-foreign-policy-after-chavez) In Cuba, Raúl Castro’s historic economic reforms are moving the island toward a mixed | 11/1/13 |
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