Tournament: GSU | Round: 1 | Opponent: na | Judge: na

Heg Advantage

Hegemony is no longer stabilizing

Bandow 11 — Senior Fellow @ the CATO Institute (Doug, " Solving the Debt Crisis: A Military Budget for a Republic," Jan 31st, http://www.cato.org/pub_display.php?pub_id=12746)
More than two decades after the Cold War dramatically ended, the U.S
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dangerous. Intended to deter by making American involvement automatic, they ensure American

Drones hurting American alliances, oversight and transparency needed

Omar S. Bashir, Foreign Affairs, "Who Watches the Drones? The Case for Independent Oversight" 2012 http://www.foreignaffairs.com/articles/138141/omar-s-bashir/who-watches-the-drones
Aside from enabling accountability at home, the oversight system could also help with foreign
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oversight to their own drone campaigns would reveal their disregard for humanitarian concerns. 

Alliances are key to hegemony

Joseph S. Nye 13 Jr. is a professor at Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government, "American power in the 21st century will be defined by the ’rise of the rest’" 6-28-13, http://articles.washingtonpost.com/2013-06-28/opinions/40255646_1_american-power-u-s-economy-united-states, DOA: 7-23-13, y2k
In the last century, the United States rose from the status of second-
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be able to achieve the outcomes it wants without the help of others.

Drone strikes hurt U.S. credibility – lack of transparency, oversight and restrictions allow any bombing to be blamed on the U.S.

Zenko 13, (Micah, fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations, with expertise in Conflict Prevention; US national security policy, military planning and operations and nuclear weapons policy. "Reforming U.S. Drone Strike Policies", Council on Foerign Relations Special Report no. 65, January 2013 http://www.cfr.org/wars-and-warfare/reforming-us-drone-strike-policies/p29736, pg15)

The problem with maintaining that drone strikes are covert is that both the American and
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, no congressional committee has conducted a hearing on any aspect of them.

====AND credibility will make the difference in maintaining hegemonic standing ====
APSA 9 (American Political Science Association, The American Political Science Association is the
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Consequences, ¶ and the Future," Task Force Report, October 2009,
http://www.apsanet.org/media/PDFs/APSAUSStandingShortFinal.pdf
p. 3-4)

Unlike something a nation possesses and can easily measure, like wealth or military ¶
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of Americans, even when it has no readily observable ¶ behavioral implications.

Alliance cooperation is key to gain cooperation to prevent pandemics, economic collapse, and integrate rising powers to prevent nuclear conflict

Richardson ’8 (A New Realism A Realistic and Principled Foreign Policy By Bill Richardson From Foreign Affairs , January/February 2008

A third trend transforming the world is the rapid rise of Asian economic and military
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. We must restore our commitment to international law and to multilateral cooperation.

HUMAN RIGHTS ADVANTAGE

US drone policy erodes international human rights law and accelerates proliferation of indiscriminate killing

McDonnell 2012 (Thomas M., Professor of Law at Pace Law and an expert in international law, "Sow What Your Reap: Using Predator and Reaper Drones to Carry out Assassinations or Targeted Killings of Suspected Islamic Terrorists", George Washington International Law Review, no. 44, pgs 315-316) PY
The major industrial states are racing to produce robotic weap-¶ ons; at least
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terror-¶ ist movements in repressed societies largely colonized by Western¶ hands.

Human rights protection prevents extinction

Annas et al 2 Edward R. Utley Prof. and Chair Health Law @
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The development of the atomic bomb not only presented to the world for the first
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event. But no such necessity currently exists or is on the horizon.

The only alternative to international law is genocide and nuclear war.

Shaw 01 ~10/3/01 Martin Shaw Professor of International Relations and Politics at the University of
Sussex. "The unfinished global revolution: intellectuals and the new politics of international relations" http://www.martinshaw.org/unfinished.pdf~~

The new politics of international relations require us, therefore, to go beyond the
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and analytical challenges for students of international relations and politics, are intertwined.

Accepting international legal norms key to multiple global issues and long term interests.

Charney 03 ~10/03 Jonathan I. Charney, Of the Board of Editors. Support for this paper was provided by the Vanderbilt University School of Law. Research assistance was provided by Jennifer McGinty, J.D. Vanderbilt University, 1993. "Universal International Law", Lexis~
To resolve such problems, it may be necessary to establish new rules that are
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primary subjects of the law, the law should reflect their collective interests.

Plan: The United States Congress should establish a federal court with jurisdiction over targeted killing authorization that will create a cause of action–with nominal damages–for individuals who have been the targets of such operations

Solvency

Retrospective review solves for disads

Steve Vladeck, professor of law and the associate dean for scholarship at American University Washington College of Law, Why a "Drone Court" Won’t Work–But (Nominal) Damages Might…,February 10, 2013 http://www.lawfareblog.com/2013/02/why-a-drone-court-wont-work/
At first blush, it may seem like many of these issues would be equally
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an ex ante "drone court," is where such endeavors should focus.

Cause of action hearings properly balance oversight with constitutionality – avoids all of their legal arguments

Steve Vladeck, professor of law and the associate dean for scholarship at American University Washington College of Law, What’s Really Wrong With the Targeted Killing White Paper, February 5, 2013 http://www.lawfareblog.com/2013/02/whats-really-wrong-with-the-targeted-killing-white-paper/
This all leads me to what I’ve increasingly come to believe is the only real
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which the perfect is the enemy of the good, this is it.