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0	Round Reports Tournament: \| Round: \| Opponent: \| Judge:	11/11/11
	China Currency DA Tournament: \| Round: \| Opponent: \| Judge: China Currency bill 17 votes short of passage now, White House pressuring to stop the legislation Financial Post, 9-21, 11, http://business.financialpost.com/2011/09/21/jobs-deficit-fuels-u-s-action-on-china-yuan/ Political capital necessary to stop the legislation. Passage will collapse relations with China and trigger a trade war Reuters, 9/2/11, http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/09/02/us-usa-obama-trade-idUSTRE7814CZ20110902 US-China trade war triggers a war Ben Landy, Ben Landy, Director of Research and Strategy at the Atlantic Media Company, publisher of the Atlantic Monthly, National Journal, and Government Executive magazines. Landy served in various research and project management positions at the Brookings Institution and Center for Strategic and International Studies, two leading public policy think tanks in Washington, D.C. Ben holds a bachelor of arts degree from Yale University. April 3, 2007, http://chinaredux.com/2007/04/03/protectionism-and-war/#comments HOT WAR WITH CHINA ENSURES EXTINCTION (STRAIT TIMES, June 25, 2K, Pg. l/n)	12/09/11
	Jobs DA Tournament: \| Round: \| Opponent: \| Judge: Markets convinced Obama’s stimulus plan will pass Congress, this perception is critical to avoiding a market downturn Bloomberg, 9-7, 11, http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2011-09-08/asian-stocks-rise-for-second-day-on-u-s-stimulus-optimism-european-debt.html Successful DA programs require investment of PC Cofman Wittes 8 (Theresa. Former deputy assistant secretary of state for Near Eastern affairs at the U.S. Department of State. Brookings Institution Freedoms Unsteady March. The End of Arab Exceptionalism, and of America’s Own. http://www.brookings.edu/~/media/Files/Press/Books/2008/freedomsunsteadymarch/freedomsunsteadymarch_chapter.pdf Republicans will begrudgingly agree to payroll tax cuts and Jobless benefits now. The Associated Press, September 11, 2011 Analysis: Expect jobs deal 'yes' on tax cuts Perceptions that job-creation legislation will pass are necessary to reassure US investors and stave-off a recession LA Times, 9-5, 11, http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/money_co/2011/09/eurozone-stocks-fall.html DOA: 9/5/11	12/09/11
	KORUS DA Tournament: \| Round: \| Opponent: \| Judge: lol nvm	12/09/11
	EU CP Tournament: \| Round: \| Opponent: \| Judge: The EU solves democracy promotion in the Arab world Abboud 2010 (Noufal Abboud was Project Coordinator at the International Institute for Democracy and Electoral Assistance (International IDEA) project on Democracy in the Arab Word, focusing on elections, political parties and women’s participation in politics in Egypt, Yemen and Jordan. He has a MA in Human Rights from Mahidol University, Thailand, and a Licence en Droit (BA in Law) from University Hassan II in Casablanca, Morocco; "Regenerating the State in the Arab World: The Role Of the European Union in Democracy Building"; http://www.idea.int/resources/analysis/upload/Abboud_low_1.pdf, SRM) The EU is comparatively more effective than the US at democracy promotion - Arab perception Abboud 2010 (Noufal Abboud was Project Coordinator at the International Institute for Democracy and Electoral Assistance (International IDEA) project on Democracy in the Arab Word, focusing on elections, political parties and women’s participation in politics in Egypt, Yemen and Jordan. He has a MA in Human Rights from Mahidol University, Thailand, and a Licence en Droit (BA in Law) from University Hassan II in Casablanca, Morocco; "Regenerating the State in the Arab World: The Role Of the European Union in Democracy Building"; http://www.idea.int/resources/analysis/upload/Abboud_low_1.pdf, SRM)	12/09/11
	UN CP Tournament: \| Round: \| Opponent: \| Judge: UNDP solves-credible, experienced, and solves national capacities UNDP 06 Capacity Development Group, Bureau for Development Policy, United Nations Development Programme CAPACITY DEVELOPMENT AND AID EFFECTIVENESS - A UNDP CAPACITY DEVELOPMENT RESOURCE, November 2006 pg 29ish The UN is well known for always executing effective plans of democracy assistance in Yemen and has always remained active and proactive in this arena. Burke 10 (Edward, Researcher at FRIDE “Assessing Democracy Assistance: Yemen” Fride, http://www.fride.org/download/IP_WMD_Yemen_ENG_jul10.pdf)	12/09/11
	China DA Tournament: \| Round: \| Opponent: \| Judge: China is watching the Middle East now – over-exerting US policy would terminally collapse cooperation Paal February 28, 2011 – Douglas, vice president for studies at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. He previously served as vice chairman of JPMorgan Chase International (2006–2008), and as unofficial U.S. representative to Taiwan as director of the American Institute in Taiwan (2002–2006). He was on the National Security Council staffs of Presidents Reagan and George H. W. Bush between 1986 and 1993 as director of Asian Affairs, and then as senior director and special assistant to the President. (China Reacts to Middle East Unrest, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, http://www.carnegieendowment.org/2011/02/28/china-reacts-to-middle-east-unrest/6yy, MCL) U.S.-Sino relations solves economic decline and is a prereq to solving every impact – creates the foundation for global interests Cohen 2009 (William S., Center for Strategic and International Studies Counselor and Trustee , “Smart Power in U.S.-China Relations,” http://csis.org/files/media/csis/pubs/090309_mcgiffert_uschinasmartpower_web.pdf)	12/09/11
	Saudi DA Tournament: \| Round: \| Opponent: \| Judge: Unique Link - pushing democracy assistance will collapse US-Saudi relations Tarpley 2011 (Press TV interview with Webster Griffin Tarpley, author, journalist and lecturer from Washington, June 18, "Saudi Arabia alarmed by US intentions" http://www.presstv.com/detail/189582.html, SRM) Relations decline over the Arab Spring will drive the Saudis to proliferate Guzansky July 1st, 2011 (Yoel Guzansky is a research fellow at the Institute for National Security Studies at Tel Aviv University. He joined INSS after serving at Israel's National Security Council; "TEHRAN TESTS SAUDIS' NERVE ON NUKES", LEXIS, SRM) Saudi prolif leads to fast regional prolif Center for Contemporary Conflict 2004 (“Conference on WMD Proliferation in the Middle East: Directions and Policy Options in the New Century” http://www.ciaonet.org/olj/si/si_3_8/si_3_8_ruj01.pdf) Rapid prolif causes pre-emptive nuclear war. Heurlin 2005 (Jean Monnet Professor of European Security and Integration at the Department of Political Science of the University of Copenhagen, and Sten Rynning, "Missile defence", p 162-3)	12/09/11
	Mission Creep DA Tournament: \| Round: \| Opponent: \| Judge: Deficit spending will be reduced now as a part of an agreement to raise the debt ceiling—this is key to preserving the US’ “AAA” credit rating Bloomberg June 21, 2011 (“Fitch Says U.S. ‘Very Likely’ to Resolve Debt Ceiling Limit Before Aug. 2,” http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2011-06-21/fitch-says-u-s-very-likely-to-resolve-debt-ceiling-limit-before-aug-2.html, MCL) Absent spending cuts, a credit downgrade would occur – this cripples the U.S. economy and tanks the dollar’s status as the world’s reserve currency Washington Post April 19, 2011 (“U.S. credit rating downgrade: the Armageddon scenario,” Apr 14, 2011, http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/political-economy/post/us-ratings-downgrade-the-armageddon-scenario/2011/04/19/AFnE0n5D_blog.html) Decline of dollar causes worldwide economic collapse – collapses hegemony and causes a nuclear war with China Mead 2004 – Kissinger Fellow for US Foreign Policy at the Council on Foreign Relations (Walter Russell, Foreign Policy, Mar/Apr. 2004, EBSCO)	12/09/11
	Capitalism K Tournament: \| Round: \| Opponent: \| Judge: [Specific Plan Link] Capitalism insures that genocide and extinction are both inevitable and logically desirable. Internationalist Perspective, 2000 (Internationalist Perspective #36, spring, http://www.geocities.com/wageslavex/capandgen.html) The alternative is to vote negative to refuse capitalist social relations and drain them of meaning destroying the capitalist system. Herod, 2007 (James, Columbia graduate and political activist, “Getting Free: Creating an Association of Democratic Autonomous Neighborhoods,” Boston, http://www.jamesherod.info/?sec=book&id=1) Resisting this reliance on economic evaluation is the ultimate ethical responsibility – the current social order guarantees social exclusion on a global scale Zizek and Daly, 2004 (Slavoj and Glyn, Conversations with Zizek page 14-16)	12/09/11
	Baudrillard K Tournament: \| Round: \| Opponent: \| Judge: The affirmatives project symbolizes a veritable obsession which is manifested in their child like obsession with the grittiness of suffering and misery. Baudrillard 93 (Jean: Cultural Theorist. The Transparency of Evil: Essays on extreme phenomena Verso 1993. pg. 124) The need for action is merely an expression of token self-pity and a desire to funnel western culture to areas in the midst of symbolic distress. Their argument for action produces nothing but a self fulfilling reality of simulation. Baudrillard 94 (Jean: Cultural Theorist. "No Repreive From Sarajevo." Liberation 1994.)	12/09/11
	Biopower K Tournament: \| Round: \| Opponent: \| Judge: Democracies are little different from totalitarian states – democracies simply conceal the violent biopolitical nature of their organization, legitimizing violence in the name of life. Agamben 98 (Giorgio, philosopher and professor of aesthetics at University of Verona Italy, Homo Sacer: Sovereign Power and Bare Life, 1998, p. 121-121) Concealing sovereign power has put us on the brink of extinction. Bernauer 90 (James, Professor of Philosophy, Boston College, Michel Foucault’s Force of Flight, 1990, p. 141-142) Vote negative to endorse the “Whatever-being” – a collectivity that no longer ties identity to the sovereign politicization of life. Caldwell 04 (Anne, Assistant Professor in the Department of Political Science at the University of Louisville, “Bio-Sovereignty and the Emergence of Humanity,” Theory & Event, Volume 7, Issue 2, Project Muse)	12/09/11
	Terror Talk K Tournament: \| Round: \| Opponent: \| Judge: Terrorist rhetoric reinforces a binary that pits the good in an endless war against the other Kellner 7 (Douglas, Chair of Philosophy @ UCLA, Presidential Studies Quarterly. Vol. 37 (4), 2007, pg. 622+) JPG Terrorist rhetoric shuts off solutions to terrorism, necessitates eradication of those who its applied to, and incites racist violence Kapitan and Schulte 2 (Tomis and Erich, Thomas – Prof of Philosophy @ N Illionois U, and Erich – , Journal of Political and Military Sociology Vol. 30 Iss. 1, 2002, pp. 172+, Questia) JPG Reject the affirmatives construction of terrorism – recognizing that terrorism is not an objective reality sheds its violent representations Whitbeck 2 (John V., int’l lawyer dealing w/ Israeli-Palestinian conflict, The Washignton Report on Midde East affairs Vol. 21 Iss. 2, March 2002, pp. 52+, questia) JPG	12/09/11
	T - Democracy Assistance Tournament: \| Round: \| Opponent: \| Judge: Interpretation and violation – democracy assistance is distinct from development aid and democracy promotion – and independently confusing them kills solvency Lappin in 2010 (Richard, PhD candidate at the Centre for Peace Research and Strategic Studies at the University of Leuven in Belgium and specialist in democracy assistance, “What we Talk about when we talk about democracy assistance: the problem of definition in post-conflict approaches of democratization,” http://www.cejiss.org/sites/default/files/8.pdf) KJS Err neg on T –democracy assistance is enormous as it is. Newman and Rich in 2004. [Edward, Director of Studies in Conflict and Security @ the United Nations University and Roland, director @ Australian National University.] “Has the UN Found the Right Formula for Promoting Democracy?” UN Chronicle: Newsletter of the UN University. Issue 36. March/April 2004. http://archive.unu.edu/update/archive/issue36_17.htm	12/09/11
	T - GTG Tournament: \| Round: \| Opponent: \| Judge: Interpretation – U.S. democracy assistance addresses the relationship between citizen and state Paula R. Newberg and Thomas Carothers, senior associates at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, “ Aiding - and Defining – Democracy,” Spring 1996, World Policy Journal Vol. 13, Issue 1, JSTOR iolation – consent is key – circumventing the host government does not support the process of democratization Office for Promotion of Parliamentary Democracy, August 2010. “Getting Acquainted, Setting the Stage for Democracy Assistance,” http://www.europarl.europa.eu/pdf/oppd/Page_8/getting_acquainted_web.pdf Prefer our interpretation – they shift the focus to outcomes, which would devastate core negative ground and explode research limits Carl Gershman is president of the National Endowment for Democracy (NED) and Michael Allen, special assistant to the vice-president for government and external relations at NED, is editor of the online publication Democracy Digest, 2006. “The Assault on Democracy Assistance,” JOURNAL OF DEMOCRACY, 17.2	12/09/11
	T - Pro Democracy Tournament: \| Round: \| Opponent: \| Judge: Interpretation – Democracy assistance transfers support to pro-democracy groups Richard Lappin, PhD candidate at the Centre for Peace Research and Strategic Studies at the University of Leuven at Belgium, 2010. “What We Talk About When We Talk About Democracy Assistance: The Problem of Definition in Post-Conflict Approaches,” CENTRAL EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF INTERNATIONAL & SECURITY STUDIES, Vol 4 Iss 1	12/09/11
	Vagueness Tournament: \| Round: \| Opponent: \| Judge: (% style="margin-bottom: 0in" %) (% style="font-size: 1em; font-size: 0.8em" %)VIOLATION – Aff fails to specify Implementation of the plan (% style="margin-bottom: 0in" %) (% style="font-size: 1em; font-size: 0.8em" %)PREVENTS EDUCATION ABOUT DECISIONMAKING AND POLICYMAKING (% style="margin-bottom: 0in" %) (% style="font-size: 1em; font-size: 0.8em" %)Gosling 04’ [James J., //__Understanding, Informing, and Appraising Public Policy__//, 2004] P. 104 (% style="margin-bottom: 0in" %) (% style="font-size: 1em; font-size: 0.8em" %)AVOIDS SOLVENCY DEBATE. (% style="font-size:0.8em;" %)Implementation must be accounted for – 90 percent of policy effectiveness is at stake. (% style="margin-bottom: 0in" %) (% style="font-size:0.8em;" %)ELMORE 80 (% style="margin-bottom: 0in" %) (% style="font-size:0.6em;" %)(Richard, Backward mapping: Implementation research and policy decisions) (% style="margin-bottom: 0in" %) (% style="font-size: 1em; font-size: 0.8em" %)VOTING ISSUE for fairness and education warrants outlined above.	12/09/11
	Framework Tournament: \| Round: \| Opponent: \| Judge: 1. ((( (% style="margin-bottom: 0.11in" %) (% style="font-size:1.0em;" %)Interpretation and Violation- the aff must have a topical plan that is justified with a defense of federal government adoption of such a policy- ))) (% style="margin-left: 0.3in; margin-bottom: 0in" %) \\ (% style="margin-left: 0.3in; margin-bottom: 0in" %) (% style="font-size:1.0em;" %)The topic is defined by the phrase following the colon- the USFG is the agent- not individuals (% style="margin-left: 0.3in; margin-bottom: 0in" %) (% style="font-size:1.0em;" %)The Guide to Grammar and Writing 05 (% style="margin-left: 0.3in; margin-bottom: 0in" %) ‘(% style="font-size:1.0em;" %)Resolved’ is a reflexive verb and it means the USFG should be resolved (% style="margin-left: 0.3in; margin-bottom: 0in" %) (% style="font-size:1.0em;" %)Merriam-Webster Dictionary 96 (% style="margin-left: 0.3in; margin-bottom: 0in" %) (http:~/~/dictionary.reference.com/search?q=resolved) (% style="margin-left: 0.3in; margin-bottom: 0in" %) ‘(% style="font-size:1.0em;" %)Should’ mandates a discussion of the effects of a governmental policy (% style="margin-left: 0.3in; margin-bottom: 0in" %) (% style="font-size:1.0em;" %)American Heritage Dictionary 04 Interpretation – The aff must defend a literal interpretation of the resolution, which means they must defend action and the consequences of the plan. They meet no part of this literal interpretation ((( 1. ((( (% style="margin-bottom: 0.11in" %) (% style="font-size:1.0em;" %)Our interpretation is best for education (% style="margin-bottom: 0.11in" %) Resolution-focused debates about government policy provide a unique role-playing experience that encourages students to be critical of dominant perspectives and become more actively involved in the political process rather than being passive consumers of information ))) (% align="LEFT" style="margin-bottom: 0in; text-decoration: none" %) (% style="font-size:0.8em;" %)Joyner 99 – Professor of International Law at Georgetown University (% style="margin-bottom: 0.1in" %) (% style="font-size:0.6em;" %)[Christopher C., “TEACHING INTERNATIONAL LAW: VIEWS FROM AN INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS POLITICAL SCIENTIST,” //ILSA Journal of International & Comparative Law//, Spring, 5 ILSA J Int'l & Comp L 377, LN 1. \\ 11. ((( (% style="margin-bottom: 0.11in" %) (% style="font-size:1.0em;" %)Switch-side debate allows individuals to attack their own convictions – this process is an essential check on ideological dogmatism and encourages the development of reasoned moral identities ))) (% align="LEFT" style="margin-bottom: 0in; text-decoration: none" %) (% style="font-size:0.8em;" %)Muir 93 – Associate Professor of Communication at George Mason University (% style="margin-bottom: 0.1in" %) (% style="font-size:0.6em;" %)[Star A., “A defense of the ethics of contemporary debate,” //Philosophy & Rhetoric//, Vol. 26, Iss. 4, p. 289-293] 1. ((( (% style="margin-bottom: 0.11in" %) (% style="font-size:1.0em;" %)Fairness 1. \\ 11. (% style="margin-bottom: 0.11in" %) (% style="font-size:1.0em;" %)Predictability of the topic to be considered is essential for meaningful debate (% align="LEFT" style="margin-bottom: 0in; text-decoration: none" %) (% style="font-size:0.8em;" %)Shively 00 – Assistant Professor of Political Science at Texas A&M (% style="margin-bottom: 0.1in" %) (% style="font-size:0.6em;" %)[Ruth Lessl, //Political theory and partisan politics//, p. 181-182] ))) 1. \\ 11. ((( (% style="margin-bottom: 0.11in" %) (% style="font-size:1.0em;" %)Non-literal interpretations of the resolution make it functionally meaningless. 1. \\ 1. \\ 11. \\ 11. (% style="margin-bottom: 0.11in" %) (% style="font-size: 1em; font-size: 1em" %)Suspending the rules ushers in a more dangerous and violent communicative ethic that facilitates violence and coercion (% align="LEFT" style="margin-bottom: 0in; text-decoration: none" %) (% style="font-size:0.8em;" %)Benhabib 95 – Professor of Political Science and Philosophy at Yale University (% style="margin-bottom: 0.1in" %) (% style="font-size:0.6em;" %)[Seyla, //The communicative ethics controversy//, p. 340, NetLibrary] 1. \\ 1. (% style="margin-bottom: 0.11in" %) (% style="font-size: 0.6em; font-size: 1em" %)They lose – Their failure to offer a valid defense of the resolution cannot be rectified. Our inability to engage them on the merits of the resolution means voting neg is the only appropriate option. Severing their framework would only further skew the debate by forcing us to debate multiple worlds in order to win the debate. (% style="margin-bottom: 0.11in" %) (% style="font-size:1.0em;" %) ))) )))	12/09/11
	Super Committee DA Tournament: \| Round: \| Opponent: \| Judge: (% style="margin-bottom: 0in" %) New Super Committee Breakthrough (% lang="en-US" style="margin-left: 0.2in; margin-right: 0.2in; margin-bottom: 0in" %) (% style="font-size:0.8em;" %)Washington Post, 11-10, 11, http:~/~/www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/2chambers/post/gop-supercommittee-offer-a-breakthrough-durbin-says/2011/11/09/gIQARwab5M_blog.html (% style="margin-top: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in" %) (% style="font-family: Times New Roman serif; font-size: 1em" %)Link ~-~- Enacting sacred cows stops Debt reduction (% lang="en-US" style="margin-top: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in" %) Goldwein 7/24 ([[(% style="color:#0000ff;" %)__http:~~/~~/crfb.org/category/document-type/policy-paper__>>http://crfb.org/category/document-type/policy-paper]](%%) Budget Path: How Feds Can Avert the Fiscal Crisis June 24, 2011; By Marc Goldwein The Public Manager \| June 24, 2011) Make no mistake: … of those cuts. (% style="margin-bottom: 0in" %) Deal key to US global leadership (% style="margin-bottom: 0in" %) Heath Haussamen on New Mexico Politics, September 6, 2011, Domenici, Rivlin say debt must be dealt with now And Nuclear War. Zalmay Khalilzad, Rand Corporation, The Washington Quarterly 1995	12/09/11
	EU+NED CP Tournament: \| Round: \| Opponent: \| Judge: (% style="margin-bottom: 0in" %) The European Union should offer full project grants, and matching financial donations, to the National Endowment for Democracy, and to each of its four core grantees, in order for them to provide substantial (% lang="en-US" %)~_~_~_~_~_~_~_~_~_~_~_~_~_~_~_~_~_~_~_~_~_~_~_~_~_~_~_~_~_~_~_~_~_~_~_~_~_~_~_~__. (% style="margin-bottom: 0in" %) EU lead Solves best – they’ll coordinate roles with US and get them on board – solving perception of US support (% style="margin-bottom: 0in" %) Dergham, 11 (% style="font-size:0.6em;" %)(Raghida, Senior Diplomatic Correspondent @ Al Hayat, 7/22, http:~/~/www.huffingtonpost.com/raghida-dergham/the-european-role-and-the_b_907286.html) (% style="margin-bottom: 0in" %) Solves Best – Captures US signal and they’ll say yes – they specifically seek out project specific international funding (% style="margin-bottom: 0in" %) Axworthy et al, ‘5 (% style="font-size:0.6em;" %)[Thomas S. Axworthy, David Donova, Leslie Campbell, Institute For Research on Public Policy, May, http:~/~/www.irpp.org/wp/archive/wp2005-02d.pdf]	12/09/11
	Climate Aid DA Tournament: \| Round: \| Opponent: \| Judge: (% style="margin-bottom: 0in" %) Climate assistance will avoid cuts now but it’s an easy target- new cuts would devastate USAID and US leadership (% style="margin-bottom: 0in" %) Worthington ‘8-11 (% style="font-size:0.6em;" %)((Samuel Worthington, InterAction CEO and president, 8-1-11 , InterAction is the largest alliance of U.S.-based international nongovernmental organizations, "US must learn from Britain and not cut foreign aid," The Guardian, (% style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); text-decoration: none" %)[[(% style="color: rgb(0,0,0); text-decoration: none; color: rgb(0,0,0); text-decoration: none; font-size: 0.6em" %)www.guardian.co.uk/global-development/poverty-matters/2011/aug/01/us-foreign-aid-cuts>>http://www.guardian.co.uk/global-development/poverty-matters/2011/aug/01/us-foreign-aid-cuts]](% style="font-size:0.6em;" %)) (% style="margin-bottom: 0in" %) Democracy assistance is zero-sum with climate assistance (% style="margin-bottom: 0in" %) Sharma ’11 (% style="font-size:0.6em;" %)(Republican Majority Taking Stance on Cutting Foreign Aide FEBRUARY 3, 2011 BY MUKUL LEAVE A COMMENT Mukul Sharma is a recent graduate of the University of Maryland in College Park. He majored in Environmental Politics and Policy and now works for DC based firm SEGURA Consulting, contributing to projects both in and outside their environmental practice. (% style="margin-bottom: 0in" %) Climate assistance is on the chopping block- cuts will crush US climate leadership and ensure runaway warming (% style="margin-bottom: 0in" %) Light ’11 (Cutting international investments would endanger U.S. leadership BY ANDREW LIGHT Andrew Light, Ph.D., is a Senior Fellow at American Progress specializing in climate, energy, and science policy. He coordinates American Progress’s participation in the Global Climate Network, focusing on international climate change policy and the future of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change. He is also director of the Center for Global Ethics at George Mason University. 7 APR 2011 3:50 PM (% style="margin-bottom: 0in" %) (% class="western" %)//Warming is real, anthropogenic, and by far the largest risk of extinction// (% style="margin-bottom: 0in" %) (% class="western" %)//Deibel ‘7//(% style="font-size:0.6em;" %) (Terry L. Deibel, professor of IR at National War College, Foreign Affairs Strategy, “Conclusion: American Foreign Affairs Strategy Today Anthropogenic – caused by CO2”)	12/09/11
	Dip Cap DA Tournament: \| Round: \| Opponent: \| Judge: (% style="margin-bottom: 0in" %) niqueness – US is spending diplomatic capital to isolate Iran now – success is key to stop proliferation. (% style="margin-bottom: 0in" %) (% style="font-size:0.6em;" %)Jayshree (%%)Bajoria(% style="font-size:0.6em;" %), Senior Staff Writer at the Council on Foreign Relations, “The Effort to Isolate Iran,” (%%)10/19(% style="font-size:0.6em;" %)/2011, http:~/~/www.cfr.org/iran/effort-isolate-iran/p26225?cid=rss-middleeast-the_effort_to_isolate_iran-101911&utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+region%2Fmiddle_east+%28CFR.org+-+Regions+-+Middle+East%29&utm_content=Google+Reader (% style="margin-bottom: 0in" %) Democracy assistance requires a massive investment of diplomatic capital. (% style="margin-bottom: 0in" %) McInerney 10(% style="font-size:0.6em;" %) [Stephen McInerney is Director of Advocacy for the Project on Middle East Democracy (POMED). He has extensive experience in the Middle East and North Africa, including graduate studies of Middle Eastern politics, history, and the Arabic language at the American University of Beirut and the American University in Cairo. He has spoken on Middle East affairs with numerous media outlets including MSNBC and CBS News. His writing on Middle East affairs and U.S. policy has been published by the Carnegie Endowment’s Arab Reform Bulletin, The Daily Star, The New Republic, Foreign Policy, and The Washington Post. He received a Masters degree from Stanford University, “The Federal Budget and Appropriations for Fiscal Year 2011,” (% style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); text-decoration: none" %)[[(% style="color: rgb(0,0,0); text-decoration: none; color: rgb(0,0,0); text-decoration: none; font-size: 0.6em" %)http:~~/~~/pomed.org/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2010/04/fy11-budget-analysis-final.pdf>>http://pomed.org/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2010/04/fy11-budget-analysis-final.pdf]](% style="font-size:0.6em;" %)] (% style="margin-bottom: 0in" %) Increased pressure is the __only chance__ to stop proliferation – it’s try or die. (% style="margin-bottom: 0in" %) N(% style="font-size:0.6em;" %)ew (%%)Y(% style="font-size:0.6em;" %)ork (%%)T(% style="font-size:0.6em;" %)imes, “Tehran’s Ambitions,” (%%)9/16(% style="font-size:0.6em;" %)/2011, http:~/~/www.nytimes.com/2011/09/17/opinion/tehrans-ambitions.html?ref=nuclearprogram (% style="margin-bottom: 0in" %) Global nuclear war (% lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom: 0in" %) (% style="font-family: Times New Roman serif; font-size: 0.6em" %)Henry (% style="font-family: Times New Roman serif; font-size: 0.6em; font-family: Times New Roman serif; font-size: 1em; font-size: 0.8em" %)Sokolski(% style="font-family: Times New Roman serif; font-size: 0.6em" %), Executive Director of the Nonproliferation Policy Education Center, 10/1/(% style="font-family: Times New Roman serif; font-size: 0.6em; font-family: Times New Roman serif; font-size: 1em; font-size: 0.8em; font-family: Times New Roman serif; font-size: 1em; font-size: 0.8em" %)2003(% style="font-family: Times New Roman serif; font-size: 0.6em; font-family: Times New Roman serif; font-size: 1em; font-size: 0.8em; font-family: Times New Roman serif; font-size: 1em; font-size: 0.8em; font-size: 0.8em" %) (% style="font-family: Times New Roman serif; font-size: 0.6em" %)(Taking Proliferation Seriously – Heritage Foundation, http:~/~/www.policyreview.org/oct03/sokolski_print.html/)	12/09/11
	Bahrain Case Neg Tournament: \| Round: \| Opponent: \| Judge:	12/09/11
	Egypt Case Neg Tournament: \| Round: \| Opponent: \| Judge:	12/09/11
	Libya Case Neg Tournament: \| Round: \| Opponent: \| Judge:	12/09/11
	Syria Case Neg Tournament: \| Round: \| Opponent: \| Judge:	12/09/11
	Tunisia Case Neg Tournament: \| Round: \| Opponent: \| Judge:	12/09/11
	Yemen Case Neg Tournament: \| Round: \| Opponent: \| Judge:	12/09/11
	Gift K Tournament: \| Round: \| Opponent: \| Judge: (% style="margin-bottom: 0in" %) (% style="font-size: 1em; text-decoration: none" %)The plan is a gift intended to secure the power of the U.S. by ensuring that marginalized groups are perpetually indebted in a vicious cycle of reciprocity. (% style="margin-bottom: 0in" %) (% style="font-family: Times New Roman serif; font-size: 1em" %)Arrigo and Williams 2k(%%) (Bruce A., Christopher R., professor of @ the University of North Carolina, associate professor of criminology @ the University of West Georgia, Possibility of Democratic Justice and the "Gift" of the Majority : On Derrida, Deconstruction, and the Search for Equality Journal of Contemporary Criminal Justice) WC (% style="margin-bottom: 0in" %) (% style="font-size:1.0em;" lang="en-US" %)US democracy assistance produces an unequal relationship between the donor and the US. Democracy assistance will build countries in the US image. (%%) (% style="font-family: Times New Roman serif; font-size: 1em" %)Newberg & Carothers(%%), senior associates at the Carnegie Endowment for Peace, 19(% style="font-family: Times New Roman serif; font-size: 1em" %)96(%%) (Paula R. & Thomas, World Policy Journal, "Aiding - And Defining - Democracy", p. 98-99) (% style="margin-bottom: 0in" %) (% style="font-size:1.0em;" lang="en-US" %)The impact is a case turn. The result of the plan is more likely to be strengthening dictatorships than improvements in democracy (% style="margin-bottom: 0in" %) (% style="font-family: Times New Roman serif; font-size: 1em" %)Sussman, M.I.T Professor, 2006 (% style="margin-bottom: 0in" %) (Gerald, The Myths of ‘Democracy Assistance’ U.S. Political Intervention in Post-Soviet Eastern Europe, This essay is a revised, shortened version of my chapter, “The Globalization of Politics: Spinning U.S. ‘Democracy Assistance Programs’” in William Dinan & David Miller, eds., Thinker, Faker, Spinner, Spy: Corporate Spin and the War on Democracy(London: Pluto Press, 2006) (% style="margin-bottom: 0in; page-break-before: always" %) (% style="font-size:1.0em;" lang="en-US" %)The alternative: Reject the affirmative. We must embrace the creation of knowledge and agency of __~_~_~_~_(Target of the Aff plan)~_~_~_~____. Only the radical pedagogy of the neg can solve the aff and the economy of the gift. (% style="margin-bottom: 0in" %) (% style="font-family: Times New Roman serif; font-size: 1em" %)Arrigo and Williams 2k(%%) (Bruce A., Christopher R., professor of @ the University of North Carolina, associate professor of criminology @ the University of West Georgia, Possibility of Democratic Justice and the "Gift" of the Majority : On Derrida, Deconstruction, and the Search for Equality Journal of Contemporary Criminal Justice) WC	12/09/11
	USFG PIC Tournament: \| Round: \| Opponent: \| Judge: Text - In the course of their employment, Harry Reid, John Boehner, and their colleagues, with the necessary cooperation of Barack Obama and staff, should [do the plan]. The invocation of the USFG as a monolithic identity is slave speak which ties our agency to bureaucracy and causes violence! MANN, 1997 Frederick, NSPIC DEBATE, http://www.mind-trek.com/reports/tl07e.htm This DIVORCES THE SELF FROM POLITICS MAKING EXTERMINATION INEVITABLE, WE MUST ETHICALLY REJECT THIS ORIENTATION AND INDEPENDENT REASON THEY SHOULD LOSE ZUPANCIC, 2K. (Alenka, Ethics of the Real, p.97)	01/22/12
	Duffield K Tournament: \| Round: \| Opponent: \| Judge: Democracy assistance is a security strategy of neoliberal governance that intervenes in the borderlands to stabilize not only the political structures, but also to change the way people think about its dictates. Duffield, Mark. 2001. Governing the Borderlands: Decoding the Power of Aid. Disasters. 25(4): 308–320. Prof at Univ. of Leeds. The Affirmative posits [plan target] as a borderland in need of securitizing, aid is used as a permanent tool of liberal global governance to stabilize the periphery through biopolitical apparatuses Duffield, Mark. 2001. The Alt is: whatever being.	01/22/12
	Tournament: \| Round: \| Opponent: \| Judge:	01/22/12

Entry

Date

Round Reports
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11/11/11

China Currency DA
- Tournament: | Round: | Opponent: | Judge:
- China Currency bill 17 votes short of passage now, White House pressuring to stop the legislation
  Financial Post, 9-21, 11, http://business.financialpost.com/2011/09/21/jobs-deficit-fuels-u-s-action-on-china-yuan/
  Political capital necessary to stop the legislation. Passage will collapse relations with China and trigger a trade war
  Reuters, 9/2/11, http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/09/02/us-usa-obama-trade-idUSTRE7814CZ20110902
  US-China trade war triggers a war
  Ben Landy, Ben Landy, Director of Research and Strategy at the Atlantic Media Company, publisher of the Atlantic Monthly, National Journal, and Government Executive magazines. Landy served in various research and project management positions at the Brookings Institution and Center for Strategic and International Studies, two leading public policy think tanks in Washington, D.C. Ben holds a bachelor of arts degree from Yale University. April 3, 2007, http://chinaredux.com/2007/04/03/protectionism-and-war/#comments
  HOT WAR WITH CHINA ENSURES EXTINCTION
  (STRAIT TIMES, June 25, 2K, Pg. l/n)

12/09/11

Jobs DA
- Tournament: | Round: | Opponent: | Judge:
- Markets convinced Obama’s stimulus plan will pass Congress, this perception is critical to avoiding a market downturn
  Bloomberg, 9-7, 11, http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2011-09-08/asian-stocks-rise-for-second-day-on-u-s-stimulus-optimism-european-debt.html
  Successful DA programs require investment of PC
  Cofman Wittes 8 (Theresa. Former deputy assistant secretary of state for Near Eastern affairs at the U.S. Department of State. Brookings Institution Freedoms Unsteady March. The End of Arab Exceptionalism, and of America’s Own. http://www.brookings.edu/~/media/Files/Press/Books/2008/freedomsunsteadymarch/freedomsunsteadymarch_chapter.pdf
  Republicans will begrudgingly agree to payroll tax cuts and Jobless benefits now.
  The Associated Press, September 11, 2011 Analysis: Expect jobs deal 'yes' on tax cuts
  Perceptions that job-creation legislation will pass are necessary to reassure US investors and stave-off a recession
  LA Times, 9-5, 11, http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/money_co/2011/09/eurozone-stocks-fall.html DOA: 9/5/11

12/09/11

KORUS DA
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- lol nvm

12/09/11

EU CP
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- The EU solves democracy promotion in the Arab world
  Abboud 2010 (Noufal Abboud was Project Coordinator at the International Institute for Democracy and Electoral Assistance (International IDEA) project on Democracy in the Arab Word, focusing on elections, political parties and women’s participation in politics in Egypt, Yemen and Jordan. He has a MA in Human Rights from Mahidol University, Thailand, and a Licence en Droit (BA in Law) from University Hassan II in Casablanca, Morocco; "Regenerating the State in the Arab World: The Role Of the European Union in Democracy Building"; http://www.idea.int/resources/analysis/upload/Abboud_low_1.pdf, SRM)
  The EU is comparatively more effective than the US at democracy promotion - Arab perception
  Abboud 2010 (Noufal Abboud was Project Coordinator at the International Institute for Democracy and Electoral Assistance (International IDEA) project on Democracy in the Arab Word, focusing on elections, political parties and women’s participation in politics in Egypt, Yemen and Jordan. He has a MA in Human Rights from Mahidol University, Thailand, and a Licence en Droit (BA in Law) from University Hassan II in Casablanca, Morocco; "Regenerating the State in the Arab World: The Role Of the European Union in Democracy Building"; http://www.idea.int/resources/analysis/upload/Abboud_low_1.pdf, SRM)

12/09/11

UN CP
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- UNDP solves-credible, experienced, and solves national capacities
  UNDP 06
  Capacity Development Group, Bureau for Development Policy, United Nations Development Programme CAPACITY DEVELOPMENT AND AID EFFECTIVENESS - A UNDP CAPACITY DEVELOPMENT RESOURCE, November 2006 pg 29ish
  The UN is well known for always executing effective plans of democracy assistance in Yemen and has always remained active and proactive in this arena.
  Burke 10 (Edward, Researcher at FRIDE “Assessing Democracy Assistance: Yemen” Fride, http://www.fride.org/download/IP_WMD_Yemen_ENG_jul10.pdf)

12/09/11

China DA
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- China is watching the Middle East now – over-exerting US policy would terminally collapse cooperation
  Paal February 28, 2011 – Douglas, vice president for studies at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. He previously served as vice chairman of JPMorgan Chase International (2006–2008), and as unofficial U.S. representative to Taiwan as director of the American Institute in Taiwan (2002–2006). He was on the National Security Council staffs of Presidents Reagan and George H. W. Bush between 1986 and 1993 as director of Asian Affairs, and then as senior director and special assistant to the President. (China Reacts to Middle East Unrest, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, http://www.carnegieendowment.org/2011/02/28/china-reacts-to-middle-east-unrest/6yy, MCL)
  U.S.-Sino relations solves economic decline and is a prereq to solving every impact – creates the foundation for global interests
  Cohen 2009 (William S., Center for Strategic and International Studies Counselor and Trustee
  , “Smart Power in U.S.-China Relations,” http://csis.org/files/media/csis/pubs/090309_mcgiffert_uschinasmartpower_web.pdf)

12/09/11

Saudi DA
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- Unique Link - pushing democracy assistance will collapse US-Saudi relations
  Tarpley 2011 (Press TV interview with Webster Griffin Tarpley, author, journalist and lecturer from Washington, June 18, "Saudi Arabia alarmed by US intentions" http://www.presstv.com/detail/189582.html, SRM)
  Relations decline over the Arab Spring will drive the Saudis to proliferate
  Guzansky July 1st, 2011 (Yoel Guzansky is a research fellow at the Institute for National Security Studies at Tel Aviv University. He joined INSS after serving at Israel's National Security Council; "TEHRAN TESTS SAUDIS' NERVE ON NUKES", LEXIS, SRM)
  Saudi prolif leads to fast regional prolif
  Center for Contemporary Conflict 2004 (“Conference on WMD Proliferation in the Middle East: Directions and Policy Options in the New Century” http://www.ciaonet.org/olj/si/si_3_8/si_3_8_ruj01.pdf)
  Rapid prolif causes pre-emptive nuclear war.
  Heurlin 2005 (Jean Monnet Professor of European Security and Integration at the Department of Political Science of the University of Copenhagen, and Sten Rynning, "Missile defence", p 162-3)

12/09/11

Mission Creep DA
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- Deficit spending will be reduced now as a part of an agreement to raise the debt ceiling—this is key to preserving the US’ “AAA” credit rating
  Bloomberg June 21, 2011 (“Fitch Says U.S. ‘Very Likely’ to Resolve Debt Ceiling Limit Before Aug. 2,” http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2011-06-21/fitch-says-u-s-very-likely-to-resolve-debt-ceiling-limit-before-aug-2.html, MCL)
  Absent spending cuts, a credit downgrade would occur – this cripples the U.S. economy and tanks the dollar’s status as the world’s reserve currency
  Washington Post April 19, 2011 (“U.S. credit rating downgrade: the Armageddon scenario,” Apr 14, 2011, http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/political-economy/post/us-ratings-downgrade-the-armageddon-scenario/2011/04/19/AFnE0n5D_blog.html)
  Decline of dollar causes worldwide economic collapse – collapses hegemony and causes a nuclear war with China
  Mead 2004 – Kissinger Fellow for US Foreign Policy at the Council on Foreign Relations (Walter Russell, Foreign Policy, Mar/Apr. 2004, EBSCO)

12/09/11

Capitalism K
- Tournament: | Round: | Opponent: | Judge:
- [Specific Plan Link]
  Capitalism insures that genocide and extinction are both inevitable and logically desirable.
  Internationalist Perspective, 2000 (Internationalist Perspective #36, spring, http://www.geocities.com/wageslavex/capandgen.html)
  The alternative is to vote negative to refuse capitalist social relations and drain them of meaning destroying the capitalist system.
  Herod, 2007 (James, Columbia graduate and political activist, “Getting Free: Creating an Association of Democratic Autonomous Neighborhoods,” Boston, http://www.jamesherod.info/?sec=book&id=1)
  Resisting this reliance on economic evaluation is the ultimate ethical responsibility – the current social order guarantees social exclusion on a global scale
  Zizek and Daly, 2004 (Slavoj and Glyn, Conversations with Zizek page 14-16)

12/09/11

Baudrillard K
- Tournament: | Round: | Opponent: | Judge:
- The affirmatives project symbolizes a veritable obsession which is manifested in their child like obsession with the grittiness of suffering and misery.
  Baudrillard 93
  (Jean: Cultural Theorist. The Transparency of Evil: Essays on extreme phenomena Verso 1993. pg. 124)
  The need for action is merely an expression of token self-pity and a desire to funnel western culture to areas in the midst of symbolic distress. Their argument for action produces nothing but a self fulfilling reality of simulation.
  Baudrillard 94
  (Jean: Cultural Theorist. "No Repreive From Sarajevo." Liberation 1994.)

12/09/11

Biopower K
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- Democracies are little different from totalitarian states – democracies simply conceal the violent biopolitical nature of their organization, legitimizing violence in the name of life.
  Agamben 98 (Giorgio, philosopher and professor of aesthetics at University of Verona Italy, Homo Sacer: Sovereign Power and Bare Life, 1998, p. 121-121)
  Concealing sovereign power has put us on the brink of extinction.
  Bernauer 90 (James, Professor of Philosophy, Boston College, Michel Foucault’s Force of Flight, 1990, p. 141-142)
  Vote negative to endorse the “Whatever-being” – a collectivity that no longer ties identity to the sovereign politicization of life.
  Caldwell 04 (Anne, Assistant Professor in the Department of Political Science at the University of Louisville,
  “Bio-Sovereignty and the Emergence of Humanity,” Theory & Event, Volume 7, Issue 2, Project Muse)

12/09/11

Terror Talk K
- Tournament: | Round: | Opponent: | Judge:
- Terrorist rhetoric reinforces a binary that pits the good in an endless war against the other
  Kellner 7 (Douglas, Chair of Philosophy @ UCLA, Presidential Studies Quarterly. Vol. 37 (4), 2007, pg. 622+) JPG
  Terrorist rhetoric shuts off solutions to terrorism, necessitates eradication of those who its applied to, and incites racist violence
  Kapitan and Schulte 2 (Tomis and Erich, Thomas – Prof of Philosophy @ N Illionois U, and Erich – , Journal of Political and Military Sociology Vol. 30 Iss. 1, 2002, pp. 172+, Questia) JPG
  Reject the affirmatives construction of terrorism – recognizing that terrorism is not an objective reality sheds its violent representations
  Whitbeck 2 (John V., int’l lawyer dealing w/ Israeli-Palestinian conflict, The Washignton Report on Midde East affairs Vol. 21 Iss. 2, March 2002, pp. 52+, questia) JPG

12/09/11

T - Democracy Assistance
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- Interpretation and violation – democracy assistance is distinct from development aid and democracy promotion – and independently confusing them kills solvency
  Lappin in 2010 (Richard, PhD candidate at the Centre for Peace Research and Strategic Studies at the University of Leuven in Belgium and specialist in democracy assistance, “What we Talk about when we talk about democracy assistance: the problem of definition in post-conflict approaches of democratization,” http://www.cejiss.org/sites/default/files/8.pdf) KJS
  Err neg on T –democracy assistance is enormous as it is.
  Newman and Rich in 2004. [Edward, Director of Studies in Conflict and Security @ the United Nations University and Roland, director @ Australian National University.] “Has the UN Found the Right Formula for Promoting Democracy?” UN Chronicle: Newsletter of the UN University. Issue 36. March/April 2004. http://archive.unu.edu/update/archive/issue36_17.htm

12/09/11

T - GTG
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- Interpretation – U.S. democracy assistance addresses the relationship between citizen and state
  Paula R. Newberg and Thomas Carothers, senior associates at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, “ Aiding - and Defining – Democracy,” Spring 1996, World Policy Journal Vol. 13, Issue 1, JSTOR
  iolation – consent is key – circumventing the host government does not support the process of democratization
  Office for Promotion of Parliamentary Democracy, August 2010. “Getting Acquainted, Setting the Stage for Democracy Assistance,” http://www.europarl.europa.eu/pdf/oppd/Page_8/getting_acquainted_web.pdf
  Prefer our interpretation – they shift the focus to outcomes, which would devastate core negative ground and explode research limits
  Carl Gershman is president of the National Endowment for Democracy (NED) and Michael Allen, special assistant to the vice-president for government and external relations at NED, is editor of the online publication Democracy Digest, 2006. “The Assault on Democracy Assistance,” JOURNAL OF DEMOCRACY, 17.2

12/09/11

T - Pro Democracy
- Tournament: | Round: | Opponent: | Judge:
- Interpretation – Democracy assistance transfers support to pro-democracy groups
  Richard Lappin, PhD candidate at the Centre for Peace Research and Strategic Studies at the University of Leuven at Belgium, 2010. “What We Talk About When We Talk About Democracy Assistance: The Problem of Definition in Post-Conflict Approaches,” CENTRAL EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF INTERNATIONAL & SECURITY STUDIES, Vol 4 Iss 1

12/09/11

Vagueness
- Tournament: | Round: | Opponent: | Judge:
- (% style="margin-bottom: 0in" %) (% style="font-size: 1em; font-size: 0.8em" %)**VIOLATION – Aff fails to specify Implementation of the plan** (% style="margin-bottom: 0in" %) (% style="font-size: 1em; font-size: 0.8em" %)**PREVENTS EDUCATION ABOUT DECISIONMAKING AND POLICYMAKING** (% style="margin-bottom: 0in" %) (% style="font-size: 1em; font-size: 0.8em" %)Gosling 04’ [James J., //__Understanding, Informing, and Appraising Public Policy__//, 2004] P. 104 (% style="margin-bottom: 0in" %) (% style="font-size: 1em; font-size: 0.8em" %)**AVOIDS SOLVENCY DEBATE**. (% style="font-size:0.8em;" %)**Implementation must be accounted for – 90 percent of policy effectiveness is at stake.** (% style="margin-bottom: 0in" %) (% style="font-size:0.8em;" %)**ELMORE 80** (% style="margin-bottom: 0in" %) (% style="font-size:0.6em;" %)**(Richard, Backward mapping: Implementation research and policy decisions)** (% style="margin-bottom: 0in" %) (% style="font-size: 1em; font-size: 0.8em" %)**VOTING ISSUE for fairness and education warrants outlined above**.

12/09/11

Framework
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- 1. ((( (% style="margin-bottom: 0.11in" %) (% style="font-size:1.0em;" %)**Interpretation and Violation- the aff must have a topical plan that is justified with a defense of federal government adoption of such a policy-** ))) (% style="margin-left: 0.3in; margin-bottom: 0in" %) \\ (% style="margin-left: 0.3in; margin-bottom: 0in" %) (% style="font-size:1.0em;" %)**The topic is defined by the phrase following the colon- the USFG is the agent- not individuals** (% style="margin-left: 0.3in; margin-bottom: 0in" %) (% style="font-size:1.0em;" %)**The Guide to Grammar and Writing 05 ** (% style="margin-left: 0.3in; margin-bottom: 0in" %) ‘(% style="font-size:1.0em;" %)**Resolved’ is a reflexive verb and it means the USFG should be resolved** (% style="margin-left: 0.3in; margin-bottom: 0in" %) (% style="font-size:1.0em;" %)**Merriam-Webster Dictionary 96** (% style="margin-left: 0.3in; margin-bottom: 0in" %) (http:~/~/dictionary.reference.com/search?q=resolved) (% style="margin-left: 0.3in; margin-bottom: 0in" %) ‘(% style="font-size:1.0em;" %)**Should’ mandates a discussion of the effects of a governmental policy** (% style="margin-left: 0.3in; margin-bottom: 0in" %) (% style="font-size:1.0em;" %)**American Heritage Dictionary 04** **Interpretation – The aff must defend a literal interpretation of the resolution, which means they must defend action and the consequences of the plan. They meet no part of this literal interpretation** ((( 1. ((( (% style="margin-bottom: 0.11in" %) (% style="font-size:1.0em;" %)**Our interpretation is best for education** (% style="margin-bottom: 0.11in" %) **Resolution-focused debates about government policy provide a unique role-playing experience that encourages students to be critical of dominant perspectives and become more actively involved in the political process rather than being passive consumers of information** ))) (% align="LEFT" style="margin-bottom: 0in; text-decoration: none" %) (% style="font-size:0.8em;" %)**Joyner 99** – Professor of International Law at Georgetown University (% style="margin-bottom: 0.1in" %) (% style="font-size:0.6em;" %)[Christopher C., “TEACHING INTERNATIONAL LAW: VIEWS FROM AN INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS POLITICAL SCIENTIST,” //ILSA Journal of International & Comparative Law//, Spring, 5 ILSA J Int'l & Comp L 377, LN 1. \\ 11. ((( (% style="margin-bottom: 0.11in" %) (% style="font-size:1.0em;" %)**Switch-side debate allows individuals to attack their own convictions – this process is an essential check on ideological dogmatism and encourages the development of reasoned moral identities** ))) (% align="LEFT" style="margin-bottom: 0in; text-decoration: none" %) (% style="font-size:0.8em;" %)**Muir 93** – Associate Professor of Communication at George Mason University (% style="margin-bottom: 0.1in" %) (% style="font-size:0.6em;" %)[Star A., “A defense of the ethics of contemporary debate,” //Philosophy & Rhetoric//, Vol. 26, Iss. 4, p. 289-293] 1. ((( (% style="margin-bottom: 0.11in" %) (% style="font-size:1.0em;" %)**Fairness** 1. \\ 11. (% style="margin-bottom: 0.11in" %) (% style="font-size:1.0em;" %)**Predictability of the topic to be considered is essential for meaningful debate** (% align="LEFT" style="margin-bottom: 0in; text-decoration: none" %) (% style="font-size:0.8em;" %)**Shively 00** – Assistant Professor of Political Science at Texas A&M (% style="margin-bottom: 0.1in" %) (% style="font-size:0.6em;" %)[Ruth Lessl, //Political theory and partisan politics//, p. 181-182] ))) 1. \\ 11. ((( (% style="margin-bottom: 0.11in" %) (% style="font-size:1.0em;" %)**Non-literal interpretations of the resolution make it functionally meaningless.** 1. \\ 1. \\ 11. \\ 11. (% style="margin-bottom: 0.11in" %) (% style="font-size: 1em; font-size: 1em" %)**Suspending the rules ushers in a more dangerous and violent communicative ethic that facilitates violence and coercion** (% align="LEFT" style="margin-bottom: 0in; text-decoration: none" %) (% style="font-size:0.8em;" %)**Benhabib 95** – Professor of Political Science and Philosophy at Yale University (% style="margin-bottom: 0.1in" %) (% style="font-size:0.6em;" %)[Seyla, //The communicative ethics controversy//, p. 340, NetLibrary] 1. \\ 1. (% style="margin-bottom: 0.11in" %) (% style="font-size: 0.6em; font-size: 1em" %)**They lose – Their failure to offer a valid defense of the resolution cannot be rectified. Our inability to engage them on the merits of the resolution means voting neg is the only appropriate option. Severing their framework would only further skew the debate by forcing us to debate multiple worlds in order to win the debate.** (% style="margin-bottom: 0.11in" %) (% style="font-size:1.0em;" %)** ** ))) )))

12/09/11

Super Committee DA
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- (% style="margin-bottom: 0in" %) New Super Committee Breakthrough (% lang="en-US" style="margin-left: 0.2in; margin-right: 0.2in; margin-bottom: 0in" %) (% style="font-size:0.8em;" %)**Washington Post, 11-10,** 11, http:~/~/www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/2chambers/post/gop-supercommittee-offer-a-breakthrough-durbin-says/2011/11/09/gIQARwab5M_blog.html (% style="margin-top: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in" %) (% style="font-family: Times New Roman serif; font-size: 1em" %)**Link ~-~- Enacting sacred cows stops Debt reduction** (% lang="en-US" style="margin-top: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in" %) Goldwein 7/24 ([[(% style="color:#0000ff;" %)__http:~~/~~/crfb.org/category/document-type/policy-paper__>>http://crfb.org/category/document-type/policy-paper]](%%) Budget Path: How Feds Can Avert the Fiscal Crisis June 24, 2011; By Marc Goldwein The Public Manager | June 24, 2011) Make no mistake: … of those cuts. (% style="margin-bottom: 0in" %) Deal key to US global leadership (% style="margin-bottom: 0in" %) Heath Haussamen on New Mexico Politics, September 6, 2011, **Domenici, Rivlin say debt must be dealt with now** And Nuclear War. Zalmay Khalilzad, Rand Corporation, The Washington Quarterly 1995

12/09/11

EU+NED CP
- Tournament: | Round: | Opponent: | Judge:
- (% style="margin-bottom: 0in" %) The European Union should offer full project grants, and matching financial donations, to the National Endowment for Democracy, and to each of its four core grantees, in order for them to provide substantial (% lang="en-US" %)~_~_~_~_~_~_~_~_~_~_~_~_~_~_~_~_~_~_~_~_~_~_~_~_~_~_~_~_~_~_~_~_~_~_~_~_~_~_~_~__. (% style="margin-bottom: 0in" %) EU lead Solves best – they’ll coordinate roles with US and get them on board – solving perception of US support (% style="margin-bottom: 0in" %) Dergham, 11 (% style="font-size:0.6em;" %)(Raghida, Senior Diplomatic Correspondent @ Al Hayat, 7/22, http:~/~/www.huffingtonpost.com/raghida-dergham/the-european-role-and-the_b_907286.html) (% style="margin-bottom: 0in" %) Solves Best – Captures US signal and they’ll say yes – they specifically seek out project specific international funding (% style="margin-bottom: 0in" %) Axworthy et al, ‘5 (% style="font-size:0.6em;" %)**[Thomas S. Axworthy, David Donova, Leslie Campbell, Institute For Research on Public Policy, May, http:~/~/www.irpp.org/wp/archive/wp2005-02d.pdf]**

12/09/11

Climate Aid DA
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- (% style="margin-bottom: 0in" %) **Climate assistance will avoid cuts now but it’s an easy target- new cuts would devastate USAID and US leadership** (% style="margin-bottom: 0in" %) **Worthington ‘8-11 **(% style="font-size:0.6em;" %)((Samuel Worthington, InterAction CEO and president, 8-1-11 , InterAction is the largest alliance of U.S.-based international nongovernmental organizations, "US must learn from Britain and not cut foreign aid," The Guardian, (% style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); text-decoration: none" %)[[(% style="color: rgb(0,0,0); text-decoration: none; color: rgb(0,0,0); text-decoration: none; font-size: 0.6em" %)www.guardian.co.uk/global-development/poverty-matters/2011/aug/01/us-foreign-aid-cuts>>http://www.guardian.co.uk/global-development/poverty-matters/2011/aug/01/us-foreign-aid-cuts]](% style="font-size:0.6em;" %)) (% style="margin-bottom: 0in" %) **Democracy assistance is zero-sum with climate assistance** (% style="margin-bottom: 0in" %) **Sharma ’11 **(% style="font-size:0.6em;" %)(Republican Majority Taking Stance on Cutting Foreign Aide FEBRUARY 3, 2011 BY MUKUL LEAVE A COMMENT Mukul Sharma is a recent graduate of the University of Maryland in College Park. He majored in Environmental Politics and Policy and now works for DC based firm SEGURA Consulting, contributing to projects both in and outside their environmental practice. (% style="margin-bottom: 0in" %) **Climate assistance is on the chopping block- cuts will crush US climate leadership and ensure runaway warming** (% style="margin-bottom: 0in" %) **Light ’11 **(Cutting international investments would endanger U.S. leadership BY ANDREW LIGHT Andrew Light, Ph.D., is a Senior Fellow at American Progress specializing in climate, energy, and science policy. He coordinates American Progress’s participation in the Global Climate Network, focusing on international climate change policy and the future of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change. He is also director of the Center for Global Ethics at George Mason University. 7 APR 2011 3:50 PM (% style="margin-bottom: 0in" %) (% class="western" %)//Warming is real, anthropogenic, and by far the largest risk of extinction// (% style="margin-bottom: 0in" %) (% class="western" %)//Deibel ‘7//(% style="font-size:0.6em;" %) (Terry L. Deibel, professor of IR at National War College, Foreign Affairs Strategy, “Conclusion: American Foreign Affairs Strategy Today Anthropogenic – caused by CO2”)

12/09/11

Dip Cap DA
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- (% style="margin-bottom: 0in" %) **niqueness – US is spending diplomatic capital to isolate Iran now – success is key to stop proliferation.** (% style="margin-bottom: 0in" %) (% style="font-size:0.6em;" %)Jayshree (%%)**Bajoria**(% style="font-size:0.6em;" %), Senior Staff Writer at the Council on Foreign Relations, “The Effort to Isolate Iran,” (%%)**10/19**(% style="font-size:0.6em;" %)/2011, http:~/~/www.cfr.org/iran/effort-isolate-iran/p26225?cid=rss-middleeast-the_effort_to_isolate_iran-101911&utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+region%2Fmiddle_east+%28CFR.org+-+Regions+-+Middle+East%29&utm_content=Google+Reader (% style="margin-bottom: 0in" %) **Democracy assistance requires a massive investment of diplomatic capital.** (% style="margin-bottom: 0in" %) **McInerney 10**(% style="font-size:0.6em;" %) [Stephen McInerney is Director of Advocacy for the Project on Middle East Democracy (POMED). He has extensive experience in the Middle East and North Africa, including graduate studies of Middle Eastern politics, history, and the Arabic language at the American University of Beirut and the American University in Cairo. He has spoken on Middle East affairs with numerous media outlets including MSNBC and CBS News. His writing on Middle East affairs and U.S. policy has been published by the Carnegie Endowment’s Arab Reform Bulletin, The Daily Star, The New Republic, Foreign Policy, and The Washington Post. He received a Masters degree from Stanford University, “The Federal Budget and Appropriations for Fiscal Year 2011,” (% style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); text-decoration: none" %)[[(% style="color: rgb(0,0,0); text-decoration: none; color: rgb(0,0,0); text-decoration: none; font-size: 0.6em" %)http:~~/~~/pomed.org/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2010/04/fy11-budget-analysis-final.pdf>>http://pomed.org/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2010/04/fy11-budget-analysis-final.pdf]](% style="font-size:0.6em;" %)] (% style="margin-bottom: 0in" %) **Increased pressure is the __only chance__ to stop proliferation – it’s try or die.** (% style="margin-bottom: 0in" %) **N**(% style="font-size:0.6em;" %)ew (%%)**Y**(% style="font-size:0.6em;" %)ork (%%)**T**(% style="font-size:0.6em;" %)imes, “Tehran’s Ambitions,” (%%)**9/16**(% style="font-size:0.6em;" %)/2011, http:~/~/www.nytimes.com/2011/09/17/opinion/tehrans-ambitions.html?ref=nuclearprogram (% style="margin-bottom: 0in" %) **Global nuclear war** (% lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom: 0in" %) (% style="font-family: Times New Roman serif; font-size: 0.6em" %)Henry (% style="font-family: Times New Roman serif; font-size: 0.6em; font-family: Times New Roman serif; font-size: 1em; font-size: 0.8em" %)**Sokolski**(% style="font-family: Times New Roman serif; font-size: 0.6em" %), Executive Director of the Nonproliferation Policy Education Center, 10/1/(% style="font-family: Times New Roman serif; font-size: 0.6em; font-family: Times New Roman serif; font-size: 1em; font-size: 0.8em; font-family: Times New Roman serif; font-size: 1em; font-size: 0.8em" %)**2003**(% style="font-family: Times New Roman serif; font-size: 0.6em; font-family: Times New Roman serif; font-size: 1em; font-size: 0.8em; font-family: Times New Roman serif; font-size: 1em; font-size: 0.8em; font-size: 0.8em" %)** **(% style="font-family: Times New Roman serif; font-size: 0.6em" %)(Taking Proliferation Seriously – Heritage Foundation, http:~/~/www.policyreview.org/oct03/sokolski_print.html/)

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Bahrain Case Neg
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Egypt Case Neg
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Libya Case Neg
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Syria Case Neg
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Tunisia Case Neg
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Yemen Case Neg
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Gift K
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- (% style="margin-bottom: 0in" %) (% style="font-size: 1em; text-decoration: none" %)The plan is a gift intended to secure the power of the U.S. by ensuring that marginalized groups are perpetually indebted in a vicious cycle of reciprocity. (% style="margin-bottom: 0in" %) (% style="font-family: Times New Roman serif; font-size: 1em" %)**Arrigo and Williams 2k**(%%) (Bruce A., Christopher R., professor of @ the University of North Carolina, associate professor of criminology @ the University of West Georgia, Possibility of Democratic Justice and the "Gift" of the Majority : On Derrida, Deconstruction, and the Search for Equality Journal of Contemporary Criminal Justice) WC (% style="margin-bottom: 0in" %) (% style="font-size:1.0em;" lang="en-US" %)**US democracy assistance produces an unequal relationship between the donor and the US. Democracy assistance will build countries in the US image. **(%%) (% style="font-family: Times New Roman serif; font-size: 1em" %)**Newberg & Carothers**(%%), senior associates at the Carnegie Endowment for Peace, 19(% style="font-family: Times New Roman serif; font-size: 1em" %)**96**(%%) (Paula R. & Thomas, World Policy Journal, "Aiding - And Defining - Democracy", p. 98-99) (% style="margin-bottom: 0in" %) (% style="font-size:1.0em;" lang="en-US" %)**The impact is a case turn. The result of the plan is more likely to be strengthening dictatorships than improvements in democracy** (% style="margin-bottom: 0in" %) (% style="font-family: Times New Roman serif; font-size: 1em" %)**Sussman, M.I.T Professor, 2006** (% style="margin-bottom: 0in" %) (Gerald, The Myths of ‘Democracy Assistance’ U.S. Political Intervention in Post-Soviet Eastern Europe, This essay is a revised, shortened version of my chapter, “The Globalization of Politics: Spinning U.S. ‘Democracy Assistance Programs’” in William Dinan & David Miller, eds., Thinker, Faker, Spinner, Spy: Corporate Spin and the War on Democracy(London: Pluto Press, 2006) (% style="margin-bottom: 0in; page-break-before: always" %) (% style="font-size:1.0em;" lang="en-US" %)**The alternative: Reject the affirmative. We must embrace the creation of knowledge and agency of __~_~_~_~_(Target of the Aff plan)~_~_~_~____. Only the radical pedagogy of the neg can solve the aff and the economy of the gift.** (% style="margin-bottom: 0in" %) (% style="font-family: Times New Roman serif; font-size: 1em" %)**Arrigo and Williams 2k**(%%) (Bruce A., Christopher R., professor of @ the University of North Carolina, associate professor of criminology @ the University of West Georgia, Possibility of Democratic Justice and the "Gift" of the Majority : On Derrida, Deconstruction, and the Search for Equality Journal of Contemporary Criminal Justice) WC

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USFG PIC
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- Text - In the course of their employment, Harry Reid, John Boehner, and their colleagues, with the necessary cooperation of Barack Obama and staff, should [do the plan].
  The invocation of the USFG as a monolithic identity is slave speak which ties our agency to bureaucracy and causes violence!
  MANN, 1997
  Frederick, NSPIC DEBATE, http://www.mind-trek.com/reports/tl07e.htm
  This DIVORCES THE SELF FROM POLITICS MAKING EXTERMINATION INEVITABLE, WE MUST ETHICALLY REJECT THIS ORIENTATION AND INDEPENDENT REASON THEY SHOULD LOSE
  ZUPANCIC, 2K. (Alenka, Ethics of the Real, p.97)

01/22/12

Duffield K
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- Democracy assistance is a security strategy of neoliberal governance that intervenes in the borderlands to stabilize not only the political structures, but also to change the way people think about its dictates.
  Duffield, Mark. 2001. Governing the Borderlands: Decoding the Power of Aid. Disasters. 25(4): 308–320. Prof at Univ. of Leeds.
  The Affirmative posits [plan target] as a borderland in need of securitizing, aid is used as a permanent tool of liberal global governance to stabilize the periphery through biopolitical apparatuses
  Duffield, Mark. 2001.
  The Alt is: whatever being.

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