Imperialism (“SMH CDL”): Taft Exact Plan Text: My partner and I advocate an engagement of discussion in this debate space of current imperialism and the two countries it stems from – the US and China.
Advantages/Harms (with explanation):
Economic and Diplomatic engagement between China and the US is flawed. It is rooted in imperialism, violence, and militarism, leading to various and magnitudinous impacts, such as environmental destruction, territorial disputes, eternal war, and extinction.
Solvency Mechanisms:
Mindset shift through discussion.
1AC Cite List:
Burke ‘07 [(Anthony, Australian political theorist and international relations scholar; Associate Professor (Reader) of Politics and International Relations in the University of New South Wales, “Ontologies of War: Violence, Existence, and Reason,” Theory and Event 10.2, Project Muse, unknown, 2007. https://muse.jhu.edu/journals/theory_and_event/v010/10.2burke.html, paragraphs #62 to #65). Web. JWL]
Callinicos ‘14 [(October 10, 2014. Alex, British political theorist and activist. In an academic capacity, he serves as Professor of European Studies at King's College London, “The multiple crises of imperialism,” http://isj.org.uk/the-multiple-crises-of-imperialism/). Web.]
Harvey ’06 [David Harvey, “Spaces of Global Capitalism: A Theory of Uneven Geographical Development”, May 17 2006, Chapter 13. 438 Print.]
Kiwanuka ‘13 [Jenkins Kiwanuka 22 July 2013. Is China promoting a new type of economic imperialism?. http://www.monitor.co.ug/OpEd/Commentary/Is-China-promoting-a-new-type-of-economic-imperialism-/-/689364/1922306/-/15j6rpfz/-/index.html. Web. //JJC]
Leupp ‘15 [Gary, Professor of History at Tufts University, “Fishing in Troubled Waters: the U.S. “Pushback” Against China’s Claims in the South China Sea,” http://www.kasamaproject.org/2015/11/imperialism-understanding-us-military-maneuvers-in-the-south-china-sea/. Web.]
McLaren ‘05 [Peter McLaren. Capitalists & Conquerors: A Critical Pedagogy against Empire. Page 10 Lanham MD: Rowman & Littlefield, unknown, 2005. Print. //JJC]
McNally 6 [(David, Professor of political science at York University “The new imperialists – Ideologies of Empire” Ch 5 Pg 92). Unknown, 2006. Print. JL]
McNally ‘06 [(David, Professor of political science at York University “The new imperialists – Ideologies of Empire” Ch 5 Pg 103). Unknown, 2006. Print. JL]
Mooers ‘06 [(Collin, THE NEW IMPERIALISTS: IDEOLOGIES OF EMPIRE, Chapter 6, page 122-125 Chair of the Department of Politics and School of Public Administration at Ryerson University, Toronto). Unknown, 2006. Print. WDK]
Pinter and Kohls ‘16 [(Harold Pinter and Dr. Gary G. Kohls. Global Research, December 10, 2016. Human Rights Day: Sobering Truths About America’s Imperialist Crimes Against Humanity. Dr Kohls is a retired physician who is involved in peace, nonviolence and justice issues and therefore resists – and writes about – fascism, corporatism, militarism, racism and all other violent anti-democratic movements. http://www.globalresearch.ca/sobering-truths-about-americas-imperialist-crimes-against-humanity/5421895.) Web.]
Pröbsting ‘14 [Michael Pröbsting. China’s Emergence as an Imperialist Power. NewPolitics. Summer 2014 issue. http://newpol.org/content/china%E2%80%99s-emergence-%E2%80%A8imperialist-power. Web. //JJC]
Stanton ‘02 [Domna C. Stanton. Graduate Center, City University of New York. “From Imperialism to Collaboration: How Do We Get There?” Unknown, 2002. PMLA. https://apps.mla.org/pdf/conf_stanton.pdf. Web. //JJC]
VanLuvanee ‘11, Lindsay VanLuvanee, Debate coach at ISU, 11 [Narrative by Lindsay VanLuvanee, a debate coach at ISU, written in 2011. The narrative was published online, at https://www.cross-x.com/topic/58034-jaredcroitoruaff-vsmartypneg/.]
Joint Vision Group (“Fill My Eyes With That Double Vision”): Northside College Prep
Exact Plan Text: The United States Federal Government should establish a joint Vision Group with the People’s Republic of China to analyze and act upon global megatrends.
Advantages/Harms with explanation (all potential advantages listed):
Economy: The Vision Group allows for the analysis of global megatrends, specifically the trends of the global economy. By analyzing the economy we are able to better rebalance the global economy and combat protectionism by allowing for new forms of trade deals allowing for broader free trade agreements bolstering the global economy.
Multilateralism: Solves for multilateral institutions by creating new and more effective institutions from the older groups from world war two. We can allow for rethinking the global system in the context of long-term trends and global challenges. This allows us to generate a global system that is fair, inclusive, open, and rule based. Allowing for this rethinking of global institutions allows for us to build up environmental sustainability, address demographic challenges, prevent proliferation, and manage increasing interdependence.
Natural Disasters: Solves for natural disaster awareness by creating effective response mechanisms and allowing us to be able to be prepared by researching these natural disasters. We can rethink our national responses to common challenges and threats such as natural disasters to avoid “each nation for itself” actions. Extreme weather events or other unpredictable events could be game changers, changing the trajectories of global political efforts to deal with the consequences of climate change.
Global Drift: Status quo cooperation is zero sum, and hinders our ability to solve for global megatrends, as well as making cooperation between China and the United States terminally ineffective (absent the plan). The plan prevents zero sum cooperation through a bilateral vision group dialogue, which allows for an effective analysis of climate change and resource scarcity.
Instability: Vision groups provide a key method of dialogue between the United States and China to allow for discussion of instability and regional tensions across the globe. This is specifically key to address instability and tensions in the Middle East and Asia-Pacific region, where both countries play key roles in. These dialogues allow for conflict de-escalation and prevents multiple scenarios of nuclear war.
Climate: Climate change is one of the most omnipresent issues facing humanity today. The creating of a vision group allows for China and the United States to discuss effective mitigation, adaptation, and management strategies for climate change, which allows for a prevention of several different effects of climate change, preventing extinction and structural violence.
Solvency Mechanisms:
A Vision Group is comprised of experts who would meet regularly to discuss global megatrends and provide a strategic foresight and a vision to guide US-China relations. There are 5 types of megatrends currently: globalization, demographic changes, urbanization, technology changes, and climate change sustainability. The Fingar evidence argues for non-zero sum cooperation in order to prevent an “every country for itself” mentality in international relations which creates comprehensive solutions to problems even if there are problems in a different area of the relationship. Vision Groups have the ability to create policy recommendations that are pushed by the US and China, as well as allowing for a bilateral dialogue between American and Chinese officials who will analyze several aspects of megatrends and their respective causes and effects.
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Coyne and Hoekstra ‘7 (Jerry Coyne is a professor in the department of ecology and evolution at the university of chicago. Hopi e. Hoekstra is john l. Loeb associate professor in the department of organismic and evolutionary biology at harvard university and curator of mammals at harvard's museum of comparative zoology. ,"diversity lost as we head towards a lonely planet", weekend australian, november 10, lexis
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Fingar et al. 13, Thomas Fingar (Stanford University), Banning Garrett (Atlantic Council), based on discussions of the joint China-US Working Group and draft input from the Chinese working group, with additional input from Stephen J. Hadley (former US national security advisor to President George W. Bush). Barry Hughes (Frederick S. Pardee Center for International Futures, University of Denver) prepared the graphic material. The report was vetted and approved by the Chinese side with minor modifications, with particular contributions from Li Zhaoxing (China Public Diplomacy Association), Qu Xing (China Institute of International Studies), Wang Jisi (Peking University), and Ruan Zongze (CIIS). September 9 2013, The Atlantic Council, "China-US Cooperation: Key to the Global Future", https://www.files.ethz.ch/isn/169907/China-US'Cooperation'Key'to'the'Global'Future.pdf
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Gramm and Jones ’78 (Lou and Mick, “Double Vision.” Appears on Foreigner’s 1978 album of the same name. Available at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oxKCPjcvbys)
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Griswold 11 (Daniel, director of the Center for Trade Policy Studies at the Cato Institute and author of Mad about Trade: Why Main Street America Should Embrace Globalization, “Free Trade and the Global Middle Class,” Hayek Society Journal Vol. 9
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Guterl 12 (Executive Editor of Scientific American, expert in Climate and Environment, Science Policy, citing James Hanson, a NASA scientist (Fred, "Climate Armageddon: How the World’s Weather Could Quickly Run Amok", 5/25/12; < http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=how-worlds-weather-could-quickly-run-amok>)
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Kulacki 16 (Gregory, China Project Manager at the Union of Concerned Scientists, May 2016 from The Risk of Nuclear War with China: A Troubling Lack of Urgency, http://www.ucsusa.org/sites/default/files/attach/2016/05/Nuclear-War-with-China.pdf)
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Stemler et al 16 (Assistant Professor of Business Law and Ethics, Indiana University; Assistant Professor of Business Law and Ethics, Indiana University; W.Glenn Campbell and Rita Ricardo-Campbell National Fellow, Stanford University; Visiting Scholar, Stanford Law School; Senior Fellow, Center for Applied Cybersecurity Research; Professor of Business Law, Indiana University). PARIS, PANELS, AND PROTECTIONISM: MATCHING U.S. RHETORIC WITH REALITY TO SAVE THE PLANET, Feb 2^^nd^^, http://ssrn.com/abstract=2732026)
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Warren 13 (Roslyn, is an M.A. candidate in Georgetown University’s Security Studies Program, "Miscalculating Nuclear Deterrence in the Middle East: Why Kenneth Waltz Gets It Wrong," http://georgetownsecuritystudiesreview.org/2013/12/19/miscalculating-nuclear-deterrence-in-the-middle-east-why-kenneth-waltz-gets-it-wrong/, 12/19/13)
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Zanotti ’14 (Dr. Laura Zanotti is an Associate Professor of Political Science at Virginia Tech. Her research and teaching include critical political theory as well as international organizations, UN peacekeeping, democratization and the role of NGOs in post-conflict governance."Governmentality, Ontology, Methodology: Re-thinking Political Agency in the Global World" – Alternatives: Global, Local, Political – vol 38(4):p. 288-304,. A little unclear if this is late 2013 or early 2014 – The Stated "Version of Record" is Feb 20, 2014, but was originally published online on December 30^^th^^, 2013. Obtained via Sage Database
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