Tournament: Nov-Dec Topic | Round: 2 | Opponent: Opponent | Judge: Judge
James Bacchus, JD, 20 ~Adjunct Fellow @ Cato Institute, JD Florida State University, MA History from Yale, former Congressman from Florida~, "An Unnecessary Proposal: A WTO Waiver of Intellectual Property Rights for COVID-19 Vaccines," Cato Institute, 12-16-2020, https://www.cato.org/free-trade-bulletin/unnecessary-proposal-wto-waiver-intellectual-property-rights-covid-19-vaccines C.VC
At the heart of this emerging trade debate is a belief by many people worldwide
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of every endeavor of multilateral cooperation in the fight to end this pandemic.
Decline of US economic leadership destabilizes the international order and causes extinction.
Haas 17 – Richard Haas, President of the Council on Foreign Relations, former Director of Policy Planning for the US State Department (2001-2003), and President George W. Bush's special envoy to Northern Ireland and Coordinator for the Future of Afghanistan. ~A World in Disarray: American Foreign Policy and the Crisis of the Old Order, 1-10-17, Penguin Press~
A large portion of the burden of creating and maintaining order at the regional or
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than what it is doing and, more important, not doing.4