Damon+&+Gavin

Contact 1AC: damonmorales.dm@gmail.com Contact 2AC: gavguz@gmail.com


 * Advantage 1 is FANTA **


 * Trade disputes within NAFTA are currently handled by ad hoc tribunals, which undermine the agreement’s credibility **


 * Pastor 11 – **(Robert Pastor, former US national security advisor and writer on foreign affairs) “North American Idea: A Vision of a Continental Future.” 2011 p. 196 []

http://www.india-seminar.com/2009/593/593_sanjaya_baru.htm
 * NAFTA integration risks failure now – hurts US and Mexican economic competitiveness **
 * Peters, 09 **– Enrique Dussel, professor at the Graduate School of Economics, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (“Manufacturing Competitiveness: Toward a Regional Development Agenda,” //The Future of North American Trade Policy: Lessons from NAFTA//, Pardee Center, November 2009, http://www.ase.tufts.edu/gdae/Pubs/rp/PardeeNAFTACh2PetersManufNov09.pdf)
 * Competitiveness prevents great power war – and economic perception is key **
 * Baru 9 ** - Visiting Professor at the Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy in Singapore (Sanjaya, “Year of the power shift?,”


 * Independently, ensuring NAFTA’s symbolic success is key to American global leadership **


 * Agrasoy, 4 ** - Bachelor of Arts degree in International Trade and a Bachelor of Science degree in Management Information Systems from Bogazici University in Istanbul, Turkey, where he specialized in international trade and investment, Master of Arts in Economics from McGill University in Montreal, ROI Research Analyst Director of Operations, Public Sector, overseeing worldwide public sector operations at ROI (Emre, “NAFTA: as a Means of an U.S. Hegemony Creation in the Region?” May 23 2004, [|http://emreagrasoy.awardspace.com/nafta.pdf)]


 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 13pt;">Hegemony and institutional leadership prevents extinction **


 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">Barnett 2011 **<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 8pt;"> – Former Senior Strategic Researcher and Professor in the Warfare Analysis & Research Department, Center for Naval Warfare Studies, U.S. Naval War College, worked as the Assistant for Strategic Futures in the Office of Force Transformation in the DOD (3/7, Thomas, World Politics Review, “The New Rules: Leadership Fatigue Puts U.S., and Globalization, at Crossroads”, <span style="color: windowtext; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 8pt; text-decoration: none;">@http://www.worldpoliticsreview.com/articles/8099/the-new-rules-leadership-fatigue-puts-u-s-and-globalization-at-crossroads <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 8pt;">, credit to LDK)


 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 13pt;">Success leads to global modeling of NAFTA **

**<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">Pastor, 04 **<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 7pt;">– Robert A., Robert A., Professor at and Founding Director of the Center for North American Studies at American University (“North America's Second Decade,” Foreign Affairs, Jan/Feb 2004)


 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 13pt;">That solves war – ensures interdependence **


 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 13pt;">Griswold, 07 **<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">(Daniel T. -the associate director of the Center for Trade Policy Studies at the Cato Institute in Washington, 12/31/98, “Trade, Democracy and Peace: The Virtuous Cycle,” <span style="color: windowtext; font-family: Georgia,serif; text-decoration: none;">[]


 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 13pt;">Maximizing the legitimacy of arbitration procedures would shore up NAFTA’s symbolic credibility **


 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 14pt;">Cordero-Moss 2013 **<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">– <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 10pt;">member of the Commission on Arbitration of the International Chamber of Commerce; Senior Research Fellow and Honorary Lecturer on International Business Law at the Centre for Energy, Petroleum, and Mineral Law and Policy; Ph.D in Law at Russian Academy of Sciences (Giuditta, “INTERNATIONAL COMMERCIAL ARBITRATION: DIFFERENT FORMS AND THEIR FEATURES” 2013 //SRM)//

//**<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 13pt;">Advantage 2 is US-Mexico relations **//

//**<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 13pt;">A North American Court on Trade and Investment is key to give Mexico an equal stake in NAFTA – the current arbitration scheme stacks the deck in the US’ favor **//

//**<span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 10pt;">Clarkson 8 – political scientist **<span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 8pt;">(Stephen, <span style="color: #222222; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 8pt;">professor of political economy at the University of Toronto <span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 8pt;"> ) “Does North America Exist? Governing the Continent After NAFTA and 9/11” 2008 pgs. 92-93 //

//**<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 13pt;">Mexican dissatisfaction with the current arbitration scheme causes distrust over trade issues **//

//**<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 13pt;">Scaff 2007 **<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;"> – <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 9pt;">Gardere Wynne Sewell LLP, Association of Corporate Counsel, J.D. from University of Houston //magna cum laude //(Peter, “EFFECTIVE AND ENFORCEABLE DISPUTE RESOLUTION IN US/MEXICO COMMERCIAL TRADE” http://www.lexology.com/library/detail.aspx?g=78cbacff-ab9a-42b4-90bc-4af02b616fdc//SRM)


 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 13pt;">This distrust risks escalation to trade wars **


 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 13pt;">Grillo 2009 **<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;"> – <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 9pt;">TIME World; former journalist for PS, Channel 4 (UK), The Houston Chronicle, Sunday Telegraph, Al Jazeera English, France 24, The Sunday Times, Gatopardo, and The San Francisco Chronicle; author of //El Narco: Inside Mexico’s Criminal Insurgency// (Ioan, “OBAMA’S ‘TRADE WAR’: NO TRUCK WITH MEXICO” Mar 25 2009 http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1887494,00.html //SRM)//

//**<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 13pt;">Reaffirming a commitment to free trade is key to US-Mexico relations **//

//**<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">Villarreal, 10 **<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;"> M. Angeles Villarreal, specialist in International Trade and Finance, “NAFTA and the Mexican Economy”, 6/3/10, ( <span style="color: windowtext; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 8pt; text-decoration: none;">[] <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">) //

//**<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 13pt;">US-Mexico cooperation solves nuclear proliferation **//

//**<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 13pt;">Downie **<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">, **<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 13pt;">11 **<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;"> (Richard, expert in <span style="color: windowtext; font-family: Georgia,serif; text-decoration: none;">[|Latin American] <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;"> security affairs and a lifetime member of the <span style="color: windowtext; font-family: Georgia,serif; text-decoration: none;">[|Council on Foreign Relations] <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;"> “Critical Strategic Decisions in Mexico: the Future of US/Mexican Defense Relations” <span style="color: windowtext; font-family: Georgia,serif; text-decoration: none;">[] <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">) //ST


 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 13pt;">Proliferation risks extinction **


 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 13pt;">Krieger, ‘9 **

<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">[David, Pres. Nuclear Age Peace Foundation and Councilor – World Future Council, “Still Loving the Bomb After All These Years”, 9-4, https://www.wagingpeace.org/articles/2009/09/04_krieger_newsweek_response.php?krieger]


 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 13pt;">Trade wars harm the U.S. economy **


 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 13pt;">Walsh 2013 **<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;"> – <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 10pt;">Reuters journalist (Eric, Thu Jan 24 2013 11:09pmEST, “REFILE-U.S. GROUPS FEAR BIG PRICE HIKES, TRADE WAR OVER MEXICAN TOMATOES” http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/01/25/usa-mexico-trade-tomatoes-idUSL1N0ATG3O20130125 //SRM)//

//**<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 13pt;">Economic decline causes global war **//

//**<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 13pt;">Royal 10 **<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;"> – Jedediah Royal, Director of Cooperative Threat Reduction at the U.S. Department of Defense, 2010, “Economic Integration, Economic Signaling and the Problem of Economic Crises,” in Economics of War and Peace: Economic, Legal and Political Perspectives, ed. Goldsmith and Brauer, p. 213-214 //

**__<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 16pt;">1ac – plan __**

<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">The United States federal government should propose the creation of a North American Court on Trade and Investment for the United States and Mexico, staffed by a permanent tribunal with members from both countries, to resolve interstate and investor-state trade disputes under Chapters 11, 14, 19, and 20 of the North American Free Trade Agreement.

**__<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 16pt;">Solvency __** //**<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 13pt;">Ad hoc panels fail – conflicts of interest and unqualified judges **//

//**<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">Pastor 2001 **<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;"> – f <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 10pt;">ormer U.S. National Security Advisor on Latin America and the Caribbean, PhD from Harvard in political science, former U.S. Foreign Policy Fulbright professor at El Colegio de Mexico (Robert A., “TOWARD A NORTH AMERICAN COMMUNITY: LESSONS FROM THE OLD WAR FOR THE NEW”, A Proposal to Deepen NAFTA, North American Institutions, 2001 pg. 103 //SRM)


 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 13pt;">A stable panelist pool is key to fairness in adjudication **


 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 13pt;">Hufbauer, 05- **<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 9pt;">(Gary, “NAFTA Revisited: Achievements and Challenges”, published on October 15, 2005, by Institute for International Economics, Chapter 4, <span style="color: windowtext; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 9pt; text-decoration: none;">[|http://www.piie.com/publications/chapters_preview/332/04iie3349.pdf)//NG]

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