Mercer+Island+KC+-+Paul+Kanellopoulos+&+Dakota+Camacho+neg

Negative Round 1 vs. Colleyville DH
Its T Mideast Peace Process Dip-cap DA

Mercer Island CK – Negative

Hegemony Bad 1) Hegemony is gone, Multipolarity is emerged. Even if they win a risk of deterring rivals, domestic issues mean primacy can’t be sustained.

Olive, 07 (David, the Toronto Star, “From Hyperpower to New World Disorder,” December 29) 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 Schwarz and Layne, 02 (Benjamin and Christopher, Editor of the Atlantic and Research Fellow with the Center on Peace and Libberty at the Independent Institute “A New Grand Strategy” Atlantic Monthly, January 1st) 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.

Layne, 06 (Christopher,Professor of Political Science at Texas A&MThe Peace of Illusions: American Grand Strategy from 1940 to Present, Cornell University Press (Ithica), p. 148) 4) Space A) Hegemony causes a buildup of space weapons.

Michael E. O’Hanlon, Testimony before the Subcommittee on Strategic Forces of the House Armed Services Committee, 2006 [“The State of Space: From Strategic Reconnaissance to Tactical Warfighting to Possible Weaponsization” ed. Washington D.C.: Brookings Institution, June 21, p. 13] B) Extinction

Washington Times, 05[“Nuclear War Threat Still Very Real”, http://www.washtimes.com/upi-breaking/200505518-125926-1740r.htm] 5) Proliferation A) Hegemony causes proliferation and oil shocks Weber et al, 07 (Steven, How Globalization Went Bad, Foreign Policy) B) Escalatory nuclear war. Utgoff, 02 (Victor, Deputy Director for Strategy, Forces and Resources at the Institute for Defense Analyses, Survival, “Proliferation, Missile Defense and American Ambitions”, Volume 44, Number 2, Summer, p. 87-90) C. Economic Collapse and Extinction

Riddoch, 04 (Dr. Malcolm, Faculty of Communications and Creative Industries, Edith Cowan University, June 19, [|http://www.melbourne.indymedia.org/news/2004/06/72000_comment.php)] US hegemony spawns a Russia-China alliance. The impact is extinction.

Roberts, 07 Former Senior Research Fellow @ the Hoover Institution, Former Distinguished Cato Fellow, Former William E. Simon Chair in Political Economy @ the CSIS, Former Assistant Secretary of the Treasury for Economic Policy in the Reagan Administration (Paul Craig, 8/9, Anti-War.com, “US Hegemony Spawns Russian-Chinese Military Alliance,” [|http://www.antiwar.com/roberts/?articleid=11422)] A) Hegemony causes war with China over Taiwan Layne 06 - visiting associate professor at the Naval postgraduate School and consultant to the RAND Corporation (Christopher, The Peace of Illusions: American Grand Strategy from 1940 to the Present, pg. 163-165) B) Extinction

Straits Times, 00 (“Regional Fallout: No one gains in war over Taiwan,” Jun 25, LN)

Security United States action in sub-Saharan Africa is a drive to secure and neutralize antagonism. This promotion of a better world is premised on the exporting of the United States standard of human that must be violently secured.

Noorani, 05 (Yaseen, “The Rhetoric of Security,” CR: The New Centennial Review, 5.1) Once the enemy is labeled as a threat to security and abstract notions of humanity they cease to be fully human and are annihilated.

Odysseos, 04 (Louiza, Ph.D, Professor of Politics and International Studies at the University of London, “Über Die Linie? Carl Schmitt and Martin Heidegger on the Line(s) of Cosmopolitanism and the War on Terror,” September, p. 19-21) The affirmative will always isolate new threats to the world order—the quest to control difference recycles the need for security

Der Derian, 98 (James, Director of Watson Institute Global Security Program, Former Rhodes Scholar, On Security, “The Value of Security: Hobbes, Marx, Nietzsche, and Baudrillard,” ed. Ronnie Lipschutz. ciaonet) The alternative is to affirm difference and learn to live with insecurity. Total security is an impossible paradox—disorder is inevitable because we live in a dangerous world. Efforts to control this fear are futile and can only recreate insecurity.

Der Derian, 98 (James, Political Science Professor at the University of Massachusetts, On Security,ed: Lipschitz, The Value of Security: Hobbes, Marx, Nietzsche, and Baudrillard, Decentering Security).

Merida Initiative A) Uniqueness—the Merida Initiative will pass.

Bremer, 08 (Catherine, “US Ups Border Gun Checks As Mexico Drug Deaths Jump,” Reuters, January 16) B) Link—Health assistance tanks political capital.

Carroll, 01(Colonel Terry, “Engagement or Marriage: The Case for an Expanded Military Medical Role in Africa”, Army War College Strategy Report) C) Internal Link—that derails the Bill Heredia, 07 (BBC News) D) Impacts 1) The Merida Initiative is the lynchpin to US-Mexican Relations

Chabat, 07 (Jorge, “U.S. Mexico Security Cooperation,” October 30) 2) Key to the Economy

Villarreal Analyst in International Trade and Finance Foreign Affairs, Defense, and Trade Division 2005 (US-Mexico Economic relations [|http://64.233.169.104/search?q=cache:0zhewusmoooJ:www.fas.org/sgp/crs/row/RL32934.pdf+us-mexico+relations+economic+growth&hl=en&ct=clnk&cd=4&gl=us)] 3) Extinction

Bearden, 00 (Tom, PhD in Nuclear Engineering, “Zero-Point Energy”, April 25, [|http://www.cheniere.org/correspondence/042500%20-%20modified.htm)]

Law of the Sea A. Unique Internal Link—Law of the Sea will pass but political capital is key. Boyer 10-29-07 B. Link—Health assistance tanks political capital.

Carroll, 01(Colonel Terry, “Engagement or Marriage: The Case for an Expanded Military Medical Role in Africa”, Army War College Strategy Report) C. Impact 1) Solves war with Russia.

The Toronto Star ’07 (Andrew Chung – staff writer – 8/12, “A simple act, but complex questions,” Lexis) 2) Extinction

Bostrum, 02 (Nick, PhD and Professor at Oxford, March, www.transhumanist.com/volume9/risks.html)

Malthus SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA IS ON THE BRING OF A MALTHUSIAN CRUNCH – CARRYING CAPACITY HAS BEEN OVERSHOT AND ONLY MASSIVE POPULATION REDUCTION CAN PREVENT CONTINENTAL CATASTROPHE. KATES, Professor of Philosophy @ Ithaca College, 2K4  DEATH CHECKS ARE KEY – EVERY PERSON SAVED KILLS 7.6 IN THE CRUNCH. ROBBS, AID Analyst, 1987 OVERPOPULATION CAUSES GENOCIDAL WARS THAT DESTROY CULTURAL DIVERSITY THAT CAUSES EXTINCTION. KODEL, M.D., family physician in private practice in Los Angeles, volunteer t for The Children's Nature Institute, 2K4 WE HAVE AN ETHICAL OBLIGATION TO PRESERVE CARRYING CAPACITY – ABSOLUTE REVERENCE FOR HUMAN LIFE IRONICALLY LEADS TO THE DESTRUCTION OF THE VERY THING HELD MOST SACRED. HARDIN, PROFESSOR EMERITUS HUMAN ECOLOGY AT UCSB, 1991

EU Counterplan The European Union is best suited for public health assistance in sub-Saharan Africa.

European Union and Border Conflicts. 7-8-04. http://www.euborderconf.bham.ac.uk/publications/files/WP8.pdf

Canada Counterplan Canada solves best – it has shared legal, economy, and cultural ties with Africa that ensure solvency while avoiding anti-western resentment CCAfrica 2004 (Brief #1, “Canada & Africa Matching Reputation With Action in the 21st Century”, Canadian Council on Africa, September, [|http://www.ccafrica.ca/publications/Briefing%20Notes%201.pdf)]

Lacan Social harmony does not exist – it is forever beyond the horizon – yet the affirmative participates in the same attempts to create a utopian vision of the world – one in which there is no war and there is peace and everybody gets along – yet this is simply an attempt to cover up the lack – the holes in society. This ultimately ends up in the annihilation of those who disturb our conception of utopia

Stavrakakis, 99 (Yannis, Visiting Fellow in Government at the University of Essex, “Lacan and the Political,” p63-65) The alternative is to maintain a distance towards the social order in order to open the lack. We endorse the gap between ideologies. This is the only space that true revolutionary action can occur. The role of the intellectual is not to live in a founded reality—but rather to call out its artificial nature. Zizek, 93 (Slavoj, Senior Researcher at the Institute for Social Studies, University of Ljubljana, “Tarrying with the Negative,” p1-2)

Baudrillard A. The affirmative attempts to liberate the human from the shackles of the twenty-first century are too strong; this liberation circulates suffering and the like in a binary form between its supposed causes and effects, replaying the same old song and dance for eternity. Baudrillard ’94 (Jean, Master of Sex and Television and France, The Illusion of the End. 1-3.) B. The alternative is nothing, a reversal to the state of inaccessibility. Refuse the affirmative’s call to add further layers to our simulated reality. Agamben ’93 (Giorgio, Professor of Philosophy @ University of Marcerata. Stanzas: Word and Phantasm in Western Culture. Translated by R.L. Martinez.)

Nuclear Malthus 1) Global war is inevitable—as mankind destroys the last of the natural environment it will finally become knowledge that there is not enough room to sustain life on the planet. The only solution to this and the ultimate destruction of the biosphere is immediate global war. Every moment we wait our impacts only become more likely.

Caldwell, 01 (Joseph, “On Saving the Environment, and the Inevitability of Global War,” May 8) 2) We control the direction of extinction—every year brings the earth one step closer to complete biological destruction. Industrial activity has contributed to biodiversity loss, global warming, and the human population explosion.

Caldwell, 03 (Joseph, “The End of the World and the new World Order,” May 8) 3) None of their alternative causalities matter—only a global nuclear war can halt the ongoing industrial activity that makes biosphere collapse and total planetary extinction inevitable.

Caldwell, 03 (Joseph, “The End of the World and the new World Order,” May 8) 4) If the risk of nuclear war is not zero—it is an eventual certainty

Boulding, 91 (Kenneth, After the Cold War: Questioning the Morality of Nuclear Deterrence, p104)