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This House Believes That the Internet Should Be Considered as a Common Heritage of Mankind
A principle of international law which holds that defined territorial areas and elements of humanity’s common heritage (cultural and natural) should be held in trust for future generations and be protected from exploitation by individual nation states or corporations. (Wikipedia) There are generally two possible ways to expect where this debate will go: one is…
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This House Believes That Sovereign Debt Default is a Legitimate Economic Strategy for All Countries
Let’s start with the ambiguous parameters that makes the wording of this motion questionable. What is the definition of “legitimate” and what are the parameters for something to belong to that category? Then, what are the actions that you would consider as a “strategy” or in fact an “economic strategy”? About sovereign debt default, there…
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This House Would Abolish UNSC’s Right to Refer and Defer Cases to the ICC
Characterization will be important in this motion. None of you, Team Affirmative nor Team Negative, not even the adjudicators should picture yourselves as being debaters for this motion. Don’t think of yourselves (or rather, let’s just say, for now, ourselves) as the society, as the government, as the people – none of that would matter.…
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This House Believes That Indonesia Should Use Economic Diplomacy Instead of Cultural Diplomacy in Strengthening Relationship with Australia
The usual and ongoing question of whether or not economic diplomacy is better than cultural diplomacy gets ever more specific in this debate motion, because the characteristics of both of these diplomacies have to be assessed in conjunction with traits of both Australia’s and Indonesia’s respectively. Also, there will be varying interests in a bilateral…
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This House Believes That It Is within the Interest of Latin American Countries in Mercosur to Fund Venezuela’s Opposition Party
Corresponding to the crisis behind Venezuela’s mishaps right now is pretty much more or less quite like an Adam Smith versus Karl Marx debate. It happens because Venezuela’s opposition party possesses a capitalistic idealism economy-wise, as opposed to the current incumbent government who happen to be more socialistic in their approach to economy. Well, the…