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File Name | S21-Policy-Stoa-23-AFF-HegemonyResponses.docx |
File Size | 54.22 KB |
Date added | January 18, 2021 |
Category | Archived |
Tags | Debate, Policy, Season 21, Stoa |
Author | “Coach Vance" Trefethen |
Negatives will have a generic “HEGEMONY” brief against any case reducing US military commitments. “Hegemony” (he-GEM-oh-nee) is leadership, or direction, where other nations do things our way because we have the most influence and power in the world. NEGs will argue that reducing US military commitments means reducing US leadership in the world. If that happens, bad guys (like Russia and China) will gain influence and the world will be much worse off.
When NEGs run this argument (probably because they have no on-case responses to your actual plan), you need to have this generic Affirmative brief ready, regardless of what AFF case you are running. It can defeat the Hegemony arguments and allow you to bring the debate back to what you really wanted to talk about: your case!
Obviously some of the arguments below may run in tension or even contradiction to each other. Pick a story and stick with it, and simply choose which path you want to take, and don’t read the other evidence in the brief that doesn’t support it.