Tournament: Navy | Round: 7 | Opponent: CUNY SW | Judge: Brossmann, Brent
Pakistan
They’re key to US/Paki relations
Bergan and Tiedmann, 2010
(Bergan, Peter and Tiedmann, Katherine, Bergan is the director of the national security studies program at the New America Foundation in Washington D.C.; a fellow at Fordham University’s Center on National Security and CNN’s national security analyst and Katherine Tiedmann  policy analyst in the Counterterrorism Strategy Initiative, where she studies Afghanistan, Pakistan, and issues of transnational terrorism. Prior to joining the Counterterrorism Strategy Initiative, she worked with the Nuclear Strategy and Nonproliferation Initiative at New America on reducing the role of nuclear weapons in international security, 2010, “The Year of the Drone,”  http://security.newamerica.net/sites/newamerica.net/files/policydocs/bergentiedemann2.pdf, NB)   
Despite the controversy… from Swat to South Waziristan.

Drones are key to Pakistani stability and strikes are already decreasing now
CBSNews, 13
(CBSNews, the news division of American television and radio network CBS, 7/31,
“Drones, Afghanistan on the agenda as Kerry visits Pakistan” (http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-202_162-57596381/drones-afghanistan-on-the-agenda-as-kerry-visits-pakistan/ CP)
Officials in neighboring Afghanistan… a U.S.-based think tank.

Tournament: Navy | Round: 6 | Opponent: Miami FR | Judge: Bertram, Kevin
1NC DA

US heg high now
Hanson, 12
(Victor Hanson, senior fellow at the Hoover Institution, 2/8/12, “A Post-American World?”, http://www.nationalreview.com/articles/290335/post-american-world-victor-davis-hanson?pg=1) NL
Post-Americans certainly… than a post-American age.

Link
Congress is way too slow and ineffective—strong military power must be vested in the president to ensure hegemony
Nather and Palmer, 9/1
(David Nather, masters degree in Poly Sci from George Washington University and senior policy reporter at POLITICO Pro, Anna Palmer, senior Washington correspondent for POLITICO, "Bushies fear Obama weakening presidency", 9/1/13, www.politico.com/story/2013/09/bushies-fear-obama-weakening-presidency-96143.html?hp=t1_3 NL)
“Legislatures are slow… do it is irresponsible.”

Limiting pres war powers kills heg
Yoo, 12
(John, American attorney, law professor, and author. He served as a political appointee, the Deputy Assistant US Attorney General in the Office of Legal Counsel, Department of Justice (OLC), during the George W. Bush administration, "War Powers Belong to the President", Feb 1, www.abajournal.com/magazine/article/war_powers_belong_to_the_president) NL
Our Constitution has succeeded… way we make war.

Flexibility in war powers is key to preserving US hegemony
Yoo, 06
(John, American attorney, law professor, and author. He served as a political appointee, the Deputy Assistant US Attorney General in the Office of Legal Counsel, Department of Justice (OLC), during the George W. Bush administration, "Exercising wartime powers: the need for a strong executive", Harvard International Review Publisher: Harvard International Relations Council, Inc, Spring, 2006 Source Volume: 28 Source Issue: 1, www.freepatentsonline.com/article/Harvard-International-Review/145567275.html) NL
Critics of these conflicts… US national security.

Strong war powers are key to US heg—we need flexibility
Yoo, 06
(John, American attorney, law professor, and author. He served as a political appointee, the Deputy Assistant US Attorney General in the Office of Legal Counsel, Department of Justice (OLC), during the George W. Bush administration, "Exercising wartime powers: the need for a strong executive", Harvard International Review Publisher: Harvard International Relations Council, Inc, Spring, 2006 Source Volume: 28 Source Issue: 1, www.freepatentsonline.com/article/Harvard-International-Review/145567275.html) NL
National Security and Congressional Inadequacy… and bad luck.

Presidential war powers are key to hegemony
Kenny, 13
(Jack, writer for The New American, "Congress Looks to Revise, Expand President's War Powers", June 4, www.thenewamerican.com/usnews/constitution/item/15616-congress-looks-to-revise-expand-president-s-war-powers) NL
The AUMF says… September 11, 2001.

Impact
Heg prevents nuclear war
Kagan, 12
(Robert Kagan, senior fellow at the Brookings Institution and serves on the foreign policy advisory board for the Secretary of State, “Why the World needs America”, 2/11/12, http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052970203646004577213262856669448.html) NL
History shows that world orders… even if they wanted to.

Tournament: Navy | Round: 7 | Opponent: CUNY SW | Judge: Brossmann, Brent
Heg DA
US heg high now
Hanson, 12
(Victor Hanson, senior fellow at the Hoover Institution, 2/8/12, “A Post-American World?”, http://www.nationalreview.com/articles/290335/post-american-world-victor-davis-hanson?pg=1) NL
Post-Americans certainly… a post-American age.

Limiting pres war powers kills heg
Yoo, 12
(John, American attorney, law professor, and author. He served as a political appointee, the Deputy Assistant US Attorney General in the Office of Legal Counsel, Department of Justice (OLC), during the George W. Bush administration, "War Powers Belong to the President", Feb 1, www.abajournal.com/magazine/article/war_powers_belong_to_the_president) NL
Our Constitution has… way we make war.

Heg collapse triggers every impact
Kagan, 12
(Robert Kagan, senior fellow at the Brookings Institution and serves on the foreign policy advisory board for the Secretary of State, “Why the World needs America”, 2/11/12, http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052970203646004577213262856669448.html) NL
History shows that world orders… even if they wanted to.

Tournament: Navy | Round: 7 | Opponent: CUNY SW | Judge: Brossmann, Brent
Ptx DA
Obama is pushing against new Iranian sanctions now but his focus and PC are key—new sanctions derail the Iranian nuclear deal and guarantee war
Landler and Weisman, 1/13
(Mark Landler, White House correspondent for The New York Times and graduate of Georgetown University, and was a Reuter Fellow at Oxford University, and Jonathan Weisman, writer for New York Times, "Obama Fights a Push to Add Iran Sanctions", 1/13/14, www.nytimes.com/2014/01/14/world/middleeast/obama-fights-a-push-to-add-iran-sanctions.html NL)
WASHINGTON — With the United States… American public and say so.”

The plan resparks Congressional fights over war powers that steals focus and drains political capital
Cohen, 11
(Tom, CNN Wire News editor. “Debate over war powers re-emerges in Congress, courts” 7-16-11 http://www.cnn.com/2011/POLITICS/06/17/war.powers.libya/index.html//wyoccd)
Washington (CNN) -- An endless Washington… influence on the process.

Obama will also fight the plan
Silverstein, 9
Gordon Silverstein, UC Berkeley Assistant Professor, December 2009, Bush, Cheney, and the Separation of Powers: A Lasting Legal Legacy?, http://digitalcommons.law.umaryland.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1161andcontext=schmooze_papers
Less than six months into… support for his claims.

Causes Israeli strikes
Perr, 12/24
(Jon, B.A. in Political Science from Rutgers University; technology marketing consultant based in Portland, Oregon. Jon has long been active in Democratic politics and public policy as an organizer and advisor in California and Massachusetts. His past roles include field staffer for Gary Hart for President (1984), organizer of Silicon Valley tech executives backing President Clinton's call for national education standards (1997), recruiter of tech executives for Al Gore's and John Kerry's presidential campaigns, and co-coordinator of MassTech for Robert Reich (2002). “Senate sanctions bill could let Israel take U.S. to war against Iran” Daily Kos, http://www.dailykos.com/story/2013/12/24/1265184/-Senate-sanctions-bill-could-let-Israel-take-U-S-to-war-against-Iran#
As 2013 draws to close… to all-out regional war.

Israeli first strike causes global nuclear war
Reuveny, 10
(Rafael, professor in the School of Public and Environmental Affairs at Indiana University “Unilateral strike could trigger World War III, global depression” Gazette Xtra,  8/7, - See more at: http://gazettextra.com/news/2010/aug/07/con-unilateral-strike-could-trigger-world-war-iii-/#sthash.ec4zqu8o.dpuf)
A unilateral Israeli strike… spark World War III.

Tournament: Navy | Round: 6 | Opponent: Miami FR | Judge: Bertram, Kevin
1NC K
The aff’s modeling and international law claims are a façade of legitimacy that expands US imperial control – justifies violent imposition of US legal norms against non-complying states
Petras 12 – Retired Bartle Professor (Emeritus) of Sociology at Binghamton University in Binghamton, New York
(James, also adjunct professor at Saint Mary's University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada, ‘“Legal Imperialism” and International Law: Legal Foundations for War Crimes, Debt Collection and Colonization’, 12-03-12, http://petras.lahaine.org/?p=1923)

While force and violence… judicial and police officials.

Movements are coming now that transform how we understand the law, producing cultural alternatives to American imperial law – only the alternative can produce a just legal order outside of US cultural homogenization
Starr 05 – Activist, Sociologic, and Documentary Film-maker
(Amory, Global revolt: A guide to the movements against globalization, http://www.scribd.com/doc/61777797/Amory-Starr-Global-Revolt-a-Guide-to-the-Movements-Against-Globalization, pgs. 255-258)

Dispersed movements… same ?re.’ And you?

Link – Modeling
The aff modeling claims are epistemologically flawed and reproduce violent power relations – claims that institutional arrangements are directly replicated reproduce legal imperialism
Peck and Theodore 10
(Jamie – Department of Geography, University of British Columbia, and Nik – Center for Urban Economic Development and Department of Urban Planning and Policy, “Mobilizing policy: Models, methods, and mutations”, Geoforum 41 (2010) 169–174)

Which policies rise… kind of normative authority (see Fine, 2002; Wade, 2002; IBRD and World Bank, 2004; Goldman, 2005; Peet, 2007).

Impact – Intervention
Imperialist legal modeling drives global intervention to mold countries that fail to meet the model – ensures endless global conflict
Mattei 03 – Alfred and Hanna Fromm Professor of International and Comparative Law at the University of California, Hastings College of the Law
(Ugo, also full Professor of Civil Law in the University of Turin, Italy, “A Theory of Imperial Law: A Study on U.S.
Hegemony and the Latin Resistance”, Indian Journal of Global Legal Studies 10:1, 1-1-2003)

The last ten years… foreign to local conditions.

Tournament: Navy | Round: 7 | Opponent: CUNY SW | Judge: Brossmann, Brent
XO CP
Text: The President of the United States should sign an executive order substantially increasing statutory restrictions on the war power authority of the President of the United States in targeted killing by amending the authorization on the use of military force to explicitly exclude targeted killing in Pakistan.
Self-restraint solves the case and signaling
Posner and Vermeule 7
(Eric Posner, The University of Chicago Law School Professor, and Adrian Vermeule, Harvard Law School Professor of Law, 2007, The Credible Executive, 74 U. Chi. L. Rev. 865)

The Madisonian system of oversight institution ever enforces it.