The "No Quals" Lab, led by Carl Engstrom, Gabrielle Prisco, and Monte
Stevens (1688 pages plus some Clinton and Oil updates not listed)
Iran Affirmative (claims iranian encirclement, oil, tunbs and abu musa
islands) (362 p.)
Iraq Affirmative (no 1 ac--just alot of cards sorted and indexed) (228
p.)
Iran Negative (specific cards/strategies/DAs ) (144 p.)
Iraq Negative (same) (60 p.)
Feminist Critique of Foreign Relations (250 p.)
Prolif good/bad etc (173 p.)
Oil DA (200 p.)
Clinton (WTO) (116 p.)
Persian Gulf General (take outs--harms, solvency) (155 p.)
The "Rogue-Aine" Lab, led by Sean Harris, Mike Korcok, and Glenda
Treadaway (500 pages)
Syria Aff (claims water wars and peace process) (154 p.)
Syria Negative (take outs, turns, CP) (30 p.)
Syria--Peace Process DA (33 p.)
Israel DA (42 p.)
Shunning Argument (128 p.)
Russia DA (econ, nationalism, peace process, consult cp all included)
(113 p.)
The "JRS" Lab, led by Jeremy Hutchins, Sue Lowrie, and Jason Russell
(Sucks) (526 pages)
North Korea Aff (claims famine, war, TWEA bad) (128 p.)
North Korea Neg (consult cp, disads, etc.) (84 p.)
China DA (66 p.)
Japan DA (Consult CP, Aid, KEDO Shells) (82 p.)
Threat Construction Argument (127 p.)
A2: Threat Construction (39 p.)
The "Underdogs" Lab, led by Drew Butler, Mike Krueger, Ben Osborne, and
Jessica Wojtysiak (595 pages)
Cuba Affirmative (claims sanctions fail, human rights, mortality and
solve adv = Dunning 98) (150 p.)
Generic Sanctions Bad file (79 p.)
Cuba Neg (Take outs, links etc) (63+ p.)
Gore disad Specific to Cuba (13 p.)
Topicality (34 p.)
Sanctions Good (51 p.)
Helms Disad (Leadership, CTBT impacts) (118+ p.)
Sanctions Reform Act CP (19 p.)
Economy Disad (overheats and collapses) (68 p.)
Collected from the mighty e-Debate:
*WDI:
JARVIS Arizona State & MORRIS SMS: Middle East Politics
Israeli consultation CP
Israel-US relations DA
Barak Credibility DA
Israel Encirclement DA
Peace process good/bad
Peace process inevitable/dead
Answers
WEST (Seattle) & KINGSTON (Mercenary): Korea
Korea food aid AFF: Starvation, economy, aid mechanisms debate
Components of the Korea debate: reunification, Kim Jung Il credibility, the
military, proliferation, KEDO.
Answers to th case
Clinton Links
Condition the aid, increase sanctions, & Japan CP
PAUL HAYES (NYU Law Review) & TRACY GONOS (NYU Legal Aid): Cuba
Cuba AFF with 5 modular advantages
Neg: Need sanctions, 2 CPs, answers to 5 aff modules.
MASSEY (Vermont) & MARLOW (Weber State): CE & Sanctions
CE Theory
Sanctions theory
CE bad
CE good
Sanctions bad gen'l
Sanctions good gen'l
Sanctions good/bad for each topic country
MEANY (Claremont) FELLOWS LAB: Secrecy
Secrecy Critique: classification, application to foreign policy,
application to topic countries, topic countries classificatiobn systems,
media manipulation (US & global), conspiracy theory and scenario
construction, threat construction based on asymmetrical transparency,
secrecy as applied to military, proliferation, trade, other other economic,
environmental, agricultural, humanitarian issues; historical examples of
dangerous miscalculation in "secure" decision making; groupthink,
voluntary/involuntary decisionmaking.
HAYMAN (Cornell) & JACOBSON (Vermont): Multilateral Agreement on Investment DA
US unilateral economic sanctions undermine US-European cooperation to
expand economic globalization through the Multiulateral Agreement on
Investment. MAI is down but not out, window of opportunity to pass in next
year. Impacts: prolif, militarization, war, unrest, biological destruction,
cultural imperialism, economic collapse. Also it leads to NATO expansion to
the Baltic states, three cenarios: Russian change in nuclear posture, arms
sell-off to rogue states, Kalingrad internal collapse.
FRAPPIER (Gonzaga) & HOVDEN (UCO): Clinton & Helms
Clinton story: political capital internal link with China-US relations impact.
Helms DA. CTBT impact.
Library of links & internal links for all of the different Clinton stories
they can think of.
WOODS (William Jewell) & MILLER (Vermont/Arkansas State): Water & Islam
Water aff: Syria specific, Iraq-regional peace pipeline.
Islam DA: regional factionalism leads to Islamist political takeover
Critique: Western mindset misanalyzes Islam
Answers to all of this.
GEHRKE & ERCOLINI (both Penn State): Feminist Critique of CE & Realism
Iraq: sanctions aff leads to patriarchy
Cuba: US-Cuba castration complx, Cuban feminism.
Many, many specific links
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*Random Stuff:
Islamic Fundamentalism
Isolationism
Clinton (obviously)
China
Isreal
Shunning
Cultural Imperialism
Japan CP
Russia
EU CP
Globalization
Spanos