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- 2) Refusing to allow the rise of new powers fails and ensures great power conflict – abandoning a strategy of hegemony would force smaller powers to take care of regional problems
- 3) Even if they win they can prolong hegemony in the short term, they can’t sustain it—re-balancing of power, strategic overstretch, and financial burdens.
- 4) Space A) Hegemony causes a buildup of space weapons.
- B) Extinction Washington Times, 05
- B) Escalatory nuclear war.
- US hegemony spawns a Russia-China alliance. The impact is extinction.
Add-OnsAngola Oil Add-OnMore water shortages in Namibia will force the government to build hydro-electric dams and pipelines to exploit the Okavango Basin, blocking sediments.. This causes war with its neighbors—Angola and Botswana Mbaiwa 3 (Joseph E. Mbaiwa University of Botswana, Harry Oppenheimer Okavango Research Centre. "Causes and possible solutions to potential water resource conflicts in the Okavango River Basin: The case of Angola, Namibia and Botswana." http://waternetonline.ihe.nl/docs/Papers2003/Warfsa- WaterNet%20Theme%205/Causes%20and%20possible%20solutions%20to%20potential%20water%20resource%20co.pdf) The Okavango River… living along the basin. Angola is key to Chinese energy security—it is its largest supplier of crude oil on the African Continent. Horta, 06 [Lora, Asian security analyst based in Beijing, regular contributor to the Straits Times, Asia Times and the Jakarta Post, 23 June 2006 ''China and Angola Strengthen Bilateral Relationship''] In 2004, Angola became China's…. policies has increased accordingly. War in the delta causes oil market collapse—conflict creates battle for access to pipelines larger cuts from the petrodollar, and bunkering would sky-rocket oil prices. Thompson, 07 (Christopher, reporter for the Black Agenda Report, a journal about African American political thought and action. The Scramble for Africa's Oil. June 20, http://www.blackagendareport.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=255&Itemid=37) Within a decade…. send world oil prices sky-high. Energy security is key to preventing war in the South china Sea—China will go to war for oil. Lai, 07 (Hongyi Harry, Research Fellow at the East Asian Institute, National University of Singapore, China's oil diplomacy: is it a global security threat?, Third World Quarterly, Volume 28, Issue 3 April 2007, pages 519 - 537, EBSCOhost) In recent years international security. The impact is extinction Cirincione, 00[ Cirincione, director of the Non-Proliferation Project at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, 2000 Joseph, Foreign Policy, "The Asian Nuclear Reaction Chain," Lexis] The blocks would… nuclear weapon since 1945. Kenyan Water-Wars Add-On
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