Implementing the counterplan is necessary for the WHO to catalyze international health cooperation in the face of public health problems – The WHO’s agenda-setting capabilities make it the MOST effective agent for action
Taylor 04
(Allyn L., University of Maryland School of Law, Governing the Globalization of Public Health, Published in the Journal of Law, Medicine & Ethics, v. 32, no. 3, Fall 2004, http://digitalcommons.law.umaryland.edu/fac_pubs/58/)
“WHO can catalyze more effective… development of the legal regime.”
Only by taking a secondary, compliant role through the counterplan can the US overcome global backlash.
Walt 02 [Stephen, JFK School of Government, Harvard Univ., "American Primacy: Its Prospects and Pitfalls", Naval War College Review, Spring 2002, www.nwc.navy.mil/press/Review/2002/spring/art1-sp2.htm 7/22/06//WFI-TO]
“ Unfortunately, there is considerable evidence… that Washington wants to pursue.”
Multilateralism promotes soft power, which is key to heg
Nye 02 (Joseph S, Former Assistant Secretary of Defense and Dean of Harvard University's John F. Kennedy School of Government, The Paradox of American Power: Why the World’s only Superpower Can’t Go It Alone, Oxford University Press, 2002) pg 16-17
“Nonetheless, if American diplomacy is… power resources of potential challengers.”
Decline in our image erodes leadership---sparking disease spread, economic collapse and nuclear war
Ferguson 04
(Niall, Professor of History at New York University's Stern School of Business and Senior fellow at the Hoover Institution, “A world without power,” Foreign Policy 143, p. 32-39, July-August)
“So what is left? Waning… not-so-new world disorder”
CHINA DISAD
US-Sino relations are high now due to recent concessions on both sides, but the brink is thin.
Roberts and Shanley 2k7 (Kristin and Mia, Reuters, “U.S. Eases Tone on China; Beijing Agrees to Hotline”, June 2, http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/SIN288889.htm)
“U.S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates… put the champagne on ice."
Up to now, any status quo US engagement/aid to Africa has not yet penetrated China’s sphere of influence
GILL 2K7 Bates Gill et. al, Senior Fellow at Center for Strategic and International Studies, January, 2007, p. http://www.csis.org/media/csis/pubs/chinainafrica.pdf
“Up to now, the United States… content into that commitment.”
Increased US engagement/foreign aid to sub-Saharan Africa will be perceived as overreaching and as an effort to contain China
GILL 2K7
Bates Gill et. al, Senior Fellow at Center for Strategic and International Studies, January, 2007, p. http://www.csis.org/media/csis/pubs/chinainafrica.pdf
“China, however, remains wary of… a strategic partnership in Africa.”
Ivan Eland 2K5 - Director of the Center on Peace & Liberty at The Independent Institute, Former Director of Defense Policy Studies at the Cato Institute - 4/11/05 (“Coexisting with a Rising China,” http://www.independent.org/newsroom/article.asp?id=1494)
“Although China is an autocratic… even a nuclear conflagration.”
Kinkaid (All Teams) – Affirmative – Patents
OBSERVATION ONE: PATENT DISREGARD
21ST CENTURY PLANET EARTH: THE NUMBER OF PEOPLE WORLDWIDE INFECTED WITH HIV HAS REACHED MONUMENTAL PROPORTIONS. THE WORD ‘EPIDEMIC’ IS NOW COMMONPLACE IN POLITICAL DISCUSSIONS. YET, MAGIC JOHNSON LOOKS HEALTHY AS EVER. THIS IS BECAUSE RECENT MEDICAL ADVANCES HAVE MADE POSSIBLE AMAZING TREATMENT OPTIONS WHICH CAN BLOCK THE TRANSMISSION THE VIRUS FROM MOTHER TO CHILD, PREVENT OR DELAY ITS DEVELOPMENT INTO AIDS, AND SIGNIFICANTLY PROLONG THE LIVES OF THOSE LIVING WITH IT. IRONICALLY, THOUGH, THE PLACES WHERE THESE DRUGS ARE MOST NEEDED ARE THE PLACES WHERE THEY ARE LEAST ACCESSIBLE. AND SO THE WORLD WATCHES IDLY AS MILLIONS ‐ LITERALLY MILLIONS ‐ OF PEOPLE DIE ANNUALLY IN SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA FROM A CONDITION TOTALLY TREATABLE FOR NBA STARS.
Fidler, Prof. of Law @ Indiana Univ, 2003. [David, “Racism or Realpolitik? U.S. Foreign Policy and the HIV/AIDS Catastrophe in Sub-Saharan Africa.” In Journal of Gender, Race, and Justice. Spring 2003 #7]
WHILE THE RACISM OF US FOREIGN POLICY IS MADE EVIDENT BY THE AIDS CRISIS, THIS IS NOT EXCLUSIVELY OR EVEN PRIMARILY A RACE ISSUE. RATHER THE IDEOLOGY WHICH DENIES AFRICANS ACCESS TO LIFE SAVING MEDICATIONS IS THAT OF CAPITALISM. AMERICAN PHARMACUETICAL COMPANIES MAKE BILLIONS OF DOLLARS EACH YEAR OFF OF THE SALE OF PATENTED ARVS. THE ECONOMIC RATIONALE ENTERED INTO BY THESE COMPANIES AND THE INSTITUTIONS THAT GOVERN THEM IS ONE THAT CONDEMNS ENTIRE POPULATIONS TO DEATH IN THE NAME OF PROFIT. THE LIVES OF AFRICANS LIVING WITH AIDS ARE JUST AS EXPENDABLE AS THE 18 MILLION DOLLARS THAT Pfizer CEO Henry McKinnell TAKES HOME EACH YEAR. LET US BE EXPLICIT, THERE IS NOTHING STANDING BETWEEN AFRICANS WITH AIDS AND ESSENTIAL MEDICATIONS BUT THE GREED OF BIG PHARMA AND THE GUTLESSNESS OF AMERICAN POLITICIANS.
Adam Sitze, professor of Law, Jurisprudence and Social Thought at Amherst College. “Denialism.” The South Atlantic Quarterly 103.4 (2004) 769-811
WELL ISOLATE TWO IMPACTS:
FIRST IS ETHICS.
OUR OBLIGATION TO OTHERS PRECEDES ANY POLITICAL RATIONALITY. WE ARE OBLIGATED TO RESPOND PRECISELY BECAUSE OF OUR SITUATEDNESS WITH ALTERITY. GIVEN THIS, IT IS SIMPLY UNCONSCIONABLE TO ALLOW THE DEATHS OF MILLIONS OF PEOPLE FOR THE RUTHLESS PURSUIT OF PROFIT.
Conceição Soares Assistant Professor in Business Ethics, Faculty of Economics and Management, Catholic University of Portugal, in 2k7 [“The HIV/AIDS crisis and corporate moral responsibility in the light of the Levinasian notions of proximity and the Third,” Business Ethics: A European Review 16.3, July 2007, p.278]
THIS MEANS THAT SUBMITTING THE PLAN TO CALCULATION, ECONOMIC OR POLITICAL RATIONALITY IS A FORFEITURE OF ETHICAL OBLIGATION. WE ARE RESPONSIBLE, PRIMARILY, FOR OUR RELATIONSHIP TO THE OTHER. THIS MEANS THAT THE SUFFERING OF PEOPLE LIVING WITH HIV/AIDS DEMANDS OUR IMMEDIATE POLITICAL ATTENTION. THEIR DISADS CONDITION THIS RESPONSIBILITY WHICH EFFACES ETHICS.
Conceição Soares Assistant Professor in Business Ethics, Faculty of Economics and Management, Catholic University of Portugal, in 2k [“The HIV/AIDS crisis and corporate moral responsibility in the light of the Levinasian notions of proximity and the Third,” Business Ethics: A European Review 16.3, July 2007, p.278]
SECOND IS SACRAFICIAL KILLING.
THE ECONOMICS OF THE STATUS QUO ROUTINELY SACRAFICE HUMAN LIFE FOR PROFIT. THIS VIOLENT MODE OF LIFE FEEDS ON THE DISPENSIBILITY OF THOSE ON THE MARGINS OF THE GLOBAL ECONOMY FOR THE LUXURY OF THE SUBURBS. DARWINIAN THOUGH IT SOUNDS, THIS GAME OF SURVIVAL IS LESS LIKELY TO PRODUCE AN UBERMENCH THAN TO KILL THE ENTIRE WORLD UNDER THE AUSPICES OF SAVING IT. THE MASS SACRAFICE OF PEOPLE LIVING WITH HIV/AIDS IN AFRICA DEMONSTRATES THE GENOCIDAL TRAJECTORY OF CAPITALISM GENERALLY WHICH, LEFT UNDISTURBED, WILL SURELY RESULT IN COLLECTIVE SUICIDE.
Santos, Director of Center for Social Studies at the University of Coimbra, 2003 [Boaventura de Sousa, “Collective Suicide?,” Bad Subjects #63, April, eserver.org/bs/63/santos.html]
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